By Daniel Idonor

 ABUJA—ACTING President, Goodluck Jonathan has declared that there is no going back in on-going socio-economic and political reforms, saying that the Federal Government is commitment to carry out reforms and check corruption in the country. Jonathan said this when he received the US Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Mr. William Burns [...]

By Ise-Oluwa Ige

 ABUJA—The legal battle to secure a mandamus order directing the immediate probe and prosecution of the incumbent Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, Alhaji Abdullahi Dikko  over alleged involvement in certificate forgery has assumed a new dimension.

Alhaji Dikko is alleging that that the personages behind the wicked allegation against him [...]

 By Daniel Alfred

 ABUJA—Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC,  Mallam Shehu Ladan, has pledged to continue with the on-going transformation programme of the corporation as it is in line with the aspirations of the Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, for the oil and gas industry in Nigeria. 

The GMD listed other key [...]

By  Peter Duru

MAKURDI — The crisis rocking the Edo State House of Assembly reared its head in Makurdi, weekend, at the just concluded Conference of Speakers of State Houses of Assembly, when the Edo State House of Assembly Speaker, Bright Omonkhodion,  was allegedly walked out of the gathering by 35 other Speakers.

The Speaker, [...]

 By Henry Umoru

 ABUJA—A member of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, yesterday accused the Igbo of being the architect of the moves to remove the National Chairman of the PDP, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor, just as he described them as selfish.

“What happened is the ambition of some [...]

The Airport Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, said, weekend, that the couple arrested recently at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, for attempting to use their twins to smuggle hard drugs out of the country to London had successfully deployed the two children for same purpose seven times since 2006.

The Federal Government is determined to boost the welfare of its workers with an upward review of the national minimum wage.

EFFURUN—Urhobo traditional rulers have dissociated themselves from a publication allegedly purported to have warned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to stop witch-hunting former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori.

Owerri—Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, leader of All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, is expected in Owerri this week in solidarity with embattled Chief Ralph Uwazurike.

Uwazurike, leader of Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB,  is standing trial, charged with the abduction of an American-based Nigerian, Pascal Okorie.

Mr Okechukwu Nworgu, MASSOB’s Owerri Regional [...]

THE matriarch of Rewane family of Warri, Delta State, Chief Florence Elemi Rewane, has stated that those who killed her brother, Pa. Alfred Rewane, would never know peace in their life time.

…says we met N281m in party’s coffers

By Henry Umoru

ABUJA— THE National Leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, disclosed yesterday that it inherited a total of N281, 887,273.96  million when it took over from the former Chairman, Dr. Amadu Ali.

Reacting to allegations of missing N4 billion raised by former National Organising Secretary, [...]