A Federal high court sitting in Abuja yesterday gave its nod to a request by the Registered Trustees of Human Rights Justice and Peace Foundation, HRJPF, to commence a legal move towards compelling EFCC to probe Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Dimeji Bankole

FISH ponds in Uvwie have been declared environmental disaster area by the Delta State Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Bello Orubebe.

Kano State Governor Malam Ibrahim Shekarau who is expected to formally declare his Presidential ambition August 5 in Abuja has said he is not desperate to be the nation’s number one citizen

Mrs Doris Uboh, the only female lawmaker on the list of six suspended members of the House of Representatives over alleged unruly behaviour yesterday failed, temporarily, in her bid to get a quick order from an Abuja Federal high court compelling Speaker Dimeji Bankole to recall her back into the House

Delta State Government has waded into the looming communal crisis in Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State, owing to the rise in tension in three communities over land acquired by Shell Petroleum Development Company for a domestic gas project.

EIGHTY-nine lives were lost in Anambra State through motor accidents between January and June this year, the sector commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Mr Ayobami Omiyale, has said.

THE senatorial ambition of Mrs. Dorathy Nwodo, wife of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, is said to be causing some ripples within the Nwodo family of Enugu State, with majority of the immediate family members opposing her decision to seek elective political office

Northern Political Leaders’ Forum led by Adamu Ciroma met with the Speaker of the House of Representatives for three hours in a closed-door meeting at the National Assembly yesterday seeking his nod for presidential power to be retained in the North for another four years

THE Investigative Panel set up by Abia State Chief Judge, , Justice Sunday Imo, to investigate allegations the State House of Assembly levelled against the deputy governor, Comrade Chris Akomas, will begin sitting today in Umuahia

ACTION Congress, AC, in Anambra State and its governorship candidate in last February 6 gubernatorial election in the state, Dr. Chris Ngige, have called for dissolution of the election petitions tribunal as currently constituted

Senate President, David Mark and all members of the National Assembly from Benue State yesterday declared their support for President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2011 Presidential elections under the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has tentatively fixed the compilation of the new voters’ register for between the last week of October and the first week of November