AGAINST the backdrop of perceived lost of power by the North occasioned by the ill-heath of President Umaru Yar’Adua and the possibility of Acting President Goodluck Jonathan contesting the 2011 polls, the Chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum, NGF and Governor of Niger State, Dr. Muazu Aliyu Babangida, has urged northerners to wake up to the stark realities of the situation on the ground and stop taking things for granted.

THE controversy trailing the genuineness of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, registration card shown by the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as evidence of his return to the party deepened, yesterday, as the faction loyal to the Governor, Admiral Murtala Nyako and Senator Jubril Aminu said that everything would be done to frustrate the return bid.

NO fewer than 15 policemen brandishing guns brutalized, handcuffed and detained the Ondo State Correspondent of The Nigerian Tribune Mr Yinka Oladoyinbo on Wednesday.

THE Federal Government appears to be worried over the reforms introduced by Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, as Presidency sources said the reforms have had devastating effects on the economy.

Unions in the aviation industry, yesterday, raised an alarm that Aerocontractors was on its way to collapse, following the noose tightened on it by Oceanic Bank Plc over the N30 billion debt owed the bank

THE Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona has lamented that the structure of the nation was defective and its government deceitful.

Former Governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Tinubu, yesterday, challenged the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, to petition the State Security Service, SSS, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, over allegation of attempting to bribe judges handling the Election Petition Tribunal of the last re-run gubernatorial election in Ekiti State with N4.2 billion.

By Funmi Komolafe

 LAGOS — Director-General of the National Directorate of Employment, NDE, Mallam Abubakar Mohammed, has attributed rising unemployment, poverty and the dislocation of economies in developing countries including Nigeria to  the negative effects of globablisation.

 He made the remarks in Lagos during a consultative meeting with the Director-General of the Manufacturers Association of [...]

AN Assistant Chief Regulatory Officer of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, in Port Harcourt, Mr. Obi Emeka Wohley has been murdered by unknown hoodlums while on the way to his village in Owerri, Imo State.