Imo State chapter of All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, has suspended Chief Rochas Okorocha from the party over what it described as anti-party activities.

About 40 inmates of Owerri Federal Prisons received the sacrament of confirmation, while 17 others denounced their membership of secret cults, when the Catholic Archbishop of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province, Most Rev. Dr. Anthony J.V. Obinna, paid a pastoral visit to the establishment.

GOVERNOR Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State, has lauded the leadership skill displayed by President Goodluck Jonathan in resolving the recent crisis that rocked the governing council of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.

The PROPOSED visit of Kano State governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Shekarau, to Abiriba, Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State, may have been called off, following alleged security report made by the state government.

The senator representing Ebonyi North senatorial district in the National Assembly, Senator Anthony Agbo, has alleged that some kitchen cabinet members in Governor Martin Elechi’s government were strategizing to enure he didn’t return to the senate come 2011.

Senatorial aspirant for Imo West senatorial district, Hope Uzodinma, has said that no amount of blackmail and falsehood would deter him from contesting for the seat in the 2011 general elections.

THERE was jubilation at Onitsha Prisons in Anambra State as Nigerian-born Francis Cardinal Arinze celebrated Christmas with the 800 inmates with a Mass and distribution of food items to enable them enjoy the Yuletide with others.

President Goodluck Jonathan, Monday, tasked royal fathers in the country to stay in their kingdom even as he promised to send a bill to the National Assembly next year to strengthen the role of the traditional institution.

AS Deltans prepare for the January 6, 2011, governorship re-run elections ordered by the Court of Appeal, Benin, Chief Elemi Rewane, has called on Deltans to vote for the gubernatorial candidate of the Republican Party of Nigeria, RPN, Chief Ovie Omo-Agege, who is in alliance with the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Delta State, saying that he appeared to be more trusted amongst all the contestants.

As Delta State gubernatorial re-run election draws closer, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftains in Bomadi Local Government Area of the state have unanimously affirmed their unalloyed support for Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan.

DEPUTY state chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, Mr. Clement Edo–Osagie, has described the bomb blasts in Jos, Plateau State, on Christmas eve in which over 32 people lost their lives as an attempt by certain group of people to destabilise the country.

IMMEDIATE past president of the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, Dr. Chris Ekiyor, has said that over one year after the granting of amnesty by the Federal Government to repentant militants in the Niger Delta region, the amnesty programme was yet to be gazetted by the government.