MALAM Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the new Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is quite a dresser. You have seen him in snappy suits with flamboyant frills on his shirt and elegant bow ties. Last Saturday, August 15, 2009, he dressed to shock his guests, top media practitioners, whom he had invited to Eko Hotel Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, to explain what his shake-up in the banking sector was all about.

AFTER six years of lingering leadership crisis that had threatened peace and tranquility in Ondo State, the Lawmakers in the state yesterday threatened to disband the state chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW).

By Chidi Nkwopara Owerri – Residents of Owerri, Imo state were yesterday, morning treated to a spectacle, as the police command paraded four suspects and the decomposing head of an 18-year old Chinwe Obieri, who was murdered for ritual purposes. The bizarre scene, which was a replica of the infamous Otokoto saga of September 1996, […]

The federal government should, as a matter of priority, undertake the review of the existing scheme of service which was last reviewed in June, 1989, in order to create a new scheme of service for federal polytechnics.

The Ekiti State House of Assembly has pruned down the number of Special Advisers sent to it by the governor, Engr Segun Oni from 24 to 16, just it has screened another set of four commissioner nominees sent to it.

The historic British Expedition of 1897, which led to the looting of more than 900 cultural artifacts from the palace of Oba Ovoranwem by the British invading forces was one military expedition that launched Benin, the capital of Edo State in world historical map.

It seems there is nobody in the whole of Great Britain who can persuade the Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, to refrain from making atrocious statements about cultural matters, especially about cultural objects of others which have been looted or removed under dubious circumstance and brought to the British Museum.

The Vice Chancellor, Lagos State University, Professor Lateef Hussain has broken silence to shed light on the ongoing union crises in LASU and why he was locked up by unionists for over seven hours in his office to accede to their demands.

By Vincent Ujumadu Awka -The Investment and Securities Tribunal (IST), says it has so far adjudicated on about 300 cases, worth over N100 billion since its establishment six years ago. Chairman of the tribunal, Dr. Nnenna Orji said at the inauguration of the Anambra state office of the tribunal in Awka, that IST became necessary […]

By Anayo Okoli Umuahia – Abia   state government says that the 116 hectares of land acquired in Aba, where multi-million Aba International Industrial Market (ABIIM) is being built, was legally and properly acquired from the community. The government said that the land was also gazetted in March this year. According to the government, the community […]

By Kenneth Ehigiator Enugu – Over 50 community care givers working with orphans and vulnerable children in Enugu state are gaining much-needed skills at a week-long  workshop at Crystal Springs Hotel, Enugu. With 58 participants in attendance, the training workshop was declared open by the wife of Enugu State governor, Mrs Clara Chime, in the […]

Delta State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, yesterday disclosed that the state government has concluded plans to build an additional runway at Osubi Airport that could accommodate cargo planes.

THE cri sis rocking the ruling Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] in Ogun state, yesterday, deepened as six members of the reconciliation committee including Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello and Dr. Doyin Okupe stormed out of the meeting with Governor Olugbenga Daniel over allegedharassment of Senator Obasanjo-Bello.

By Vincent Ujumadu Awka – The Anambra State chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA),Akunwata  Kwentoh has criticised the former Governor of the state, Dr. Chris Ngige for his continued claim that the projects being completed by the administration of Governor Peter Obi were the projects he initiated. According to the APGA chairman, Ngige says […]

By Henry Umoru Abuja – THE National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Vincent Ogbulafor said yesterday that the Uchenna Emodi led Anambra State Executive Committee of the party remains the only recognised exco, adding that the South East Zonal stakeholders of the party was on their own. Ogbulafor who urged the Anambra […]