Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, yesterday, passed a vote of no confidence in the Bayelsa State House of Assembly.
IYC lamented that if the State House of Assembly had diligently carried out its oversight functions, situations in the state would not have been as bad as they were currently.

By Emmanuel Elebeke  LAGOS —  VICE-PRESIDENT, Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, and General Superintendent of  Christ Holy Church International, Most Rev. Daniel Okoh, has called for transparency in the fight against corruption, saying there is too much politics in the fight.  Okoh who spoke during the dedication ceremony of the Christ Holy Church headquarters cathedral […]

By Sam Eyoboka  LAGOS-WORRIED by current challenges posed by globalization, academicians in West Africa have been tasked with responsibility of combining forces to develop new strategies to tackle underdevelopment in the region.  Addressing a sensitization meeting on ECOWAS Regional Symposium on Development yesterday in Lagos, a former Senegalese university don and chairman of the Scientific […]

By Evelyn Usman  LAGOS — The hitherto traffic congestion along the Mile Two- Badagry expressway will soon be a thing of the past if the promise by the Minister of Works and Housing, Senator Sanusi Daggash, that the Federal Government is partnering with the Lagos State government to commence work on the road, is any […]

 By Daniel Idonor  ABUJA—ACTING President Goodluck Jonathan has commended the Federal Government delegation to the 2009 Christian Pilgrimage to Israel and thanked the committee for maintaining a good standard. Jonathan who said he was impressed that the exercise was without a major scandal, spoke when he received the report of the 2009 Christian Pilgrimage to […]