THE Anti Corruption and Transparency Unit in conjunction with SERVICOM chapter of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has called on maritime stakeholders to join hands with Federal Government’s effort to eradicate corruption in the nation.

President Yar‘Adua had last weekend led national officers of the party and PDP bigwigs to receive Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State back to the PDP. Yuguda, the President’s son in law was elected on the platform of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) in 2007.

On Monday the following day, both the Commissioner of Police and Governor Obi reportedly moved to Spring bank where the money was paid into Anambra State Government account and a photocopy of the deposit slip made and handed over to the Commissioner of Police.

An ex-soldier, the professional DJ and married father of one, is one of the top-notch video producers in Nigeria. He’s been recognised with awards. After shooting his first video about a decade ago, he has kept up the steam.

One of the most tragic crises we have on our hands today is the bloody uprising in the Niger Delta. Justice Belgore made it also clear to everybody who is not driven by selfish and inordinate lust for power that the 1999 constitution is responsible for the Niger Delta crisis because it did not address the issue as the 1960 independent constitution did.

The selection process which began with about 15,000 applicants pruned down to 108 from across the country, further reduced to about 40 who were taken to the Citizen & leadership Training School, Apapa would be concluded at the Lagoon Restaurant, Victoria Island.10 contestants would e picked from a total of 18 expected to emerge from School sea school, Apapa.

The government had in the past, perhaps in a bid to score cheap political points, created numerous autonomous communities and appointed traditional rulers, many of them known 419ers and people of questionable character, in fact charlatans. Some of these Ezes( traditional rulers) are today causing the society move harm than good.

They started creating problems that I even had to go to court to bail the band. And after spending so much money, I knew that the whole thing won’t work. So, I told them to go and form their own band.

My lawyer wrote to him back and forth to terminate the agreement and he responded without saying anything tangible. If my album (Forever in My heart) did not sell, why is he holding unto me to for a second album? I’m not the first person he’s doing this to.

Mr. Adipere is so lucid. This indeed is the period when academia should have been strutting up and down with the pride and joy of being “in government”, if not “in power”, with two members of their clan on top of the heap.

So at the beginning of each day, she would raise up some money, and tell him “You can either earn this by doing things right, or throw it back to me” The first infuriating thing he does, she goes “minus hundred naira or Two hundred naira” depending on how serious the offence is.

Sandra Iwu, a computer science student of Lagos State University came to limelight in 2007, when she emerged Miss Galaxy International; a West African pageantry with Nigerian and Ghanaian models.

Here is a chance for aspiring models to achieve the dreams as Sleek Nigeria, the brand name in exquisite make-up and hair extensions, is set to chose a face for its brand, as it flags off the search for Face of Sleek 2009. The objective being to select one girl! whose face will represent the brand in Nigeria and internationally.

Alhaji Dokubo, who spoke to newsmen in Benin City, when he accompanied Governor Adams Oshiomohle, to inspect some on-going projects in Benin City, admonished the government to shun the proposed amnesty for militants which he described as illegal and unconstitutional and face reality, which according to him was the “convocation of sovereign National Conference, not just for the Niger Delta but for the entire country.

According to him, “you have the antecedents, goodwill and courage to take the civil service to greater heights and ensure that it becomes a veritable tool for the attainment of the 7-Point agenda of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua”.