By Charles Komolu
FOR the poor, driving through Lekki/Ajah Express Way only reminds them of their fate. There are also those who curse the rich and still wish they could be counted among the residents of the neighbourhood.
The magnificent structures and the calibre of its residents gives a larger than life image for this high [...]

SECURITY was yesterday beefed up in Yenagoa  as the governors of the other 35  states  under the aegis of the Governors Forum arrived Bayelsa State Capital  for a two-day meeting. Armoured Personal Carriers, APCs, and patrol vehicles manned by men of the Nigeria  Police  and the Joint Task Force were stationed at the entry and [...]

*No clear mandate for them from militants
By Emma Amaize
MINISTER of Defence and Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Amnesty, Major –General Godwin Abbe (rtd.), shed light, yesterday, on why the committee is not keen on meeting with the Aaron Team, a group of eminent Nigerians with mandate from the Movement for the Emancipation of the [...]

EFFORTS by the national headquarters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to resolve the crisis that has engulfed Oyo State chapter of the party in the last two years may have failed.
The National Reconciliation Committee of the party led by Senator Ike Nwachukwu had visited the state on Friday where it met  with the contending [...]

THERE is  fear  among supporters of  the leader of the Niger-Delta People Volunteer Force (NDPVF) and  Peoples Salvation Front (PSF), Mujahid Abubakar Dokubo-Asari, that he may be arrested following a security report that he has been clandestinely training over 5,000 men in weapon handling.
He is also said to have acquired  sophisticated arms and securing international [...]

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole is in no mood yet to call the truce in his face-off with former chairman, Board of Trustees of the PDP, Chief Anthony Anenih, after he launched a fresh assault yesterday on political godfathers.
Oshiomhole, who spoke in Benin a week after the defection of some council chairmen and supervisory councillors elected on [...]

AMBASSADOR Andrew Young, former United States permanent representative to the UN, on Friday, gave an assessment of Nigerian and its population, saying Nigerians don’t like one another.
Young, who was the guest speaker at the maiden convocation lecture of Bells University of Technology, Ota, Ogun State, spoke on the topic, “What is Wrong with Nigeria? He [...]

UNION Bank appears to be on its way out of the woods, according to indications. This is because the bank has recovered N31 billion of the N70 billion that eroded the bank’s shareholders funds that led to the CBN removal of the former management of the bank.

THE Ezeoruonye family of Akpo in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State has petitioned the chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) over alleged disappearance of its member, Chukwuma, from the custody of the NDLEA  in Onitsha.
Chukwuma (25) was, on January 28, 2008, taken to the Onitsha office of the NDLEA for [...]

THIS is the full inside story of how leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Anambra State met in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, last week to deliberate on the way forward after what is being described as a state chapter ruptured by incessant crises.