By Isiaka Oyibo LOKOJA — ONE person identified as Surage was, yesterday, stabbed to death and ten others badly injured when some youths of Kabawa engaged themselves in a free-for-all fight. During the mayhem at the Maraba area of Lokoja metropolis, guns, machetes, cudgels, broken bottles and other dangerous weapons were freely used forcing motorists […]

Kafur (Katsina)  -  The Kafur Local Council in Katsina State has suspended an immunisation officer and his subordinates for allegedly compiling false report on immunisation exercise in Masari village. Director of Health in the council, Alhaji Shuaibu Garba, who disclosed this yesterday while supervising the on-going exercise in Masari village, said the doctored report was […]

“The FG shall pay N300,000 per an AK47 and two magazines.
“The Federal Government shall construct sustainable three bedroom flats at low cost. The buildings which must be constructed in their places of choice within the Niger Delta, shall be exclusively for militants and sundry youths who shall undertake to pay the cost due within ten years.”

Jos — The Justice Bola Ajibola Commission of Inquiry constituted in January 2009 by Governor Jonah Jang to investigate the November 2008 crisis in Jos-North is to wind up this week. Ajibola disclosed this yesterday in Jos, when the Commission visited the Gbong Gwom Jos, Da Jacob Buba, to seek his advice on finding lasting […]

Maiduguri — Some of the women who lost their loved ones in last week’s sectarian crisis in Maiduguri are bemoaning their fate and have appealed for government assistance. The Boko Haram Muslim sect, led by 39-year-old Mohammed Yusuf, had last Monday launched  a violent attack on the people of the state in what it called […]

It is important that the roots of these riots are noted beyond the usual explanations that youth unemployment and religious fanaticism propel them. It is obvious that there must be some people sponsoring the riots. What are their motives?

If the above is the thesis of Amuta’s essay, can that essay be read as the warning of a watchman? Can Amuta be read as a message to one member of the political class who by past conduct can understand the message and transmit it to the PDP leadership? Such interpretation of the essay is supported by Amuta’s description of the Nigerian political situation and of the aptitude of Ojo Maduekwe whom Amuta presents in these words.

Dr. Asogun, a Consultant Surgeon and Head of Department of Surgery, Central Hospital, Benin City, and Medical Director of Asogun Specialist Clinic, Benin, was abducted by unknown gunmen while attending to a patient in his clinic.
Family sources told newsmen on the telephone that the kidnappers allowed them to speak with the doctor for a few minutes before the ransom demand was made.

The senator disclosed this while laying the foundation stone for the building of a library and computer centre estimated at about N35 million in Calabar, Cross River State .

Acting Managing Director of the Commission, Mr. Power Aginighan, who made the appeal yesterday in Port Harcourt during the commissioning of a health centre built and furnished by the Commission for Tereama community, Port Harcourt, said militants should see the amnesty offer as an opportunity to be properly reintegrated into society, so they could also be active players in the drive to develop the region.

It read: “That the relocation of the Petroleum University from Delta to Kaduna State is unacceptable by Niger-Delta students, as it is against the 7-point agenda and no excuse is genuine enough for the relocation, therefore, it should be returned without any further delay.

By Emma Arubi WARRI—THE Nigeri an Bar Association (NBA) has threatened to drag the Federal Government to court if it failed to withdraw the Petroleum Industry Bill and reverse its decision to downgrade the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) in favour of the Kaduna Petroleum College.

It has been good so far. We make sure that all our electioneering promises are fulfilled. We thank God that he has been on our side. We have enjoyed relative peace. What we are doing is to let the people of Oyo State know that they have a government which is different from what they used to have in the past. If I cannot make a difference, I should not be on this seat because I know what used to happen in the past. I don’t want to do it the same way they were done.

It is axiomatic that where the bulk of government revenue is derived from export proceeds, only mismanagement of the export earnings will inhibit economic advancement. The mismanagement of the public sector export proceeds, which has left a legacy of economic failure over the past three decades, must stop now

Meanwhile, demand for foreign exchange in the official market has risen more than threefold since the introduction of WDAS on July 13. Analysis of the foreign exchange demand and sales in the six auctions conducted by the CBN before and after the introduction of WDAS shows demand for foreign exchange shot up by 351 per cent to $3.16 billion from $861.8 million.