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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“The command is worried over incessant cases of domestic violence in the state. We are in a situation where we have been able to reduced to the barest minimum incidents of armed robbery in the state, and instead of heaving a sigh of relief, we constantly inundated with deaths arising from domestic violence. Parents should pay more attention to the activities of their children .

By Abdulwahab Abdulah, Evelyn Usman and Ifeanyi Okolie
The Lagos State Government has shut  four strip night clubs on Opebi/Allen area of Ikeja, Lagos, arresting 33 strip dancers in the process.

ORGANISED Labour yesterday advised President Yar’ Adua not to rush to deregulate the down stream sector of the oil industry. Labour said that the government has to meet the condition it gave the government before it can deregulate the oil industry. It said that if the government does not give it a deep thought it could mean deregulating social upheaval in the country.

The Presiding Judge, Justice Marcel Awokulehin told the capacity filled court hall that he was deferring the ruling due to “some issues that came up between the last adjourned day and now, so ruling is adjourned to November 23”.