By Dennis Agbo ABAKALIKI—Internal wrangling has creped into the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) in Ebonyi state, as the appointed state chairman, Mr Anselm Enigwe, yesterday allegedly locked-up the Afikpo Road office of the party,shutting-out other members of the party, who had gathered for a scheduled meeting. Though when contacted, the state chairman, Mr. Enigwe denied […]

By Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI—The Special Adviser (Political) to Imo State Governor, Chief Rex Anunobi, was booed in Owerri for castigating the Catholic Archbishop of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province, Most Rev. Dr. Anthony Obinna. He had berated the Archbishop for condemning the beating of Mr. Oluokun during his sermon at a concelebrated Pontifical sung Mass at Maria […]

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA—The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission  (EFCC), yesterday, said it has enough evidence to prove that the former Director of Finance in the Federal Ministry of Health, Mallam Hanafi Mohammed, actually played a key role in the diversion of the N300m unspent budget from the Federal Ministry of Health. The anti-graft agency […]

By Tordue Salem ABUJA—The Railways section of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP), yesterday took to the streets of Abuja to demand an immediate  payment of over70 billion Naira owed them by the Corporation in pension arrears. The members said they were propelled to stage the peaceful protest to call the attention of the Federal […]

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA — The last may not have been heard over the controversies trailing the 2007 governorship election in Niger State, as an Appeal Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, agreed to re-constitute a five-man panel of Justices, to re-visit its earlier ruling, which had declared Governor Babangida Aliyu as the winner of that […]

Edo State government is to arrest and prosecute any person caught in the act of street trading within Benin metropolis.

By Dennis Agbo ABAKALIKI — UP till Monday midnight in Abaklaiki, Ebonyi state, the Police tried to contain an armed robbery attack around Agwu Street,  inside the capital city. The robbers held residents of the area hostage till morning of yesterday. The areas condoned-off by both the joint security patrol of the police and military,  […]

THE Warri Ijaw Peace Monitoring Group (WIPMG) yesterday hailed the removal of Chief Bello Oboko as the President of the Federated Niger Delta Ijaw Communities(FNDIC) by the general assembly in Benin City last weekend, describing it as a sign of good things to come.

Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom State, Prince Uwem Etuk, has called on the national leadership of the party to ignore agitations for the dissolution of the state executive council of the party.

By Enyim Enyim Onitsha— Governor Peter Obi of Anambra state and the factional national chairman of the All Progressive Peoples Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Umeh may have resolved  to join the People’s Mandate Party on a merger agreement following the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) decision to hand over the original forms for governorship aspirants […]

WHEN I joined The Guardian newspapers in August 1983, I thought it was chaotic. We were grilled like soldiers. Every day we had to bring at least one story.

I have an old friend who meddles in my financial affairs. We’d been together since our secondary school day and are now in our 40s we’re both divorced but the similarity endja there.

THE Chairman of Ndokwa East local government council in Delta State, Elder Chike Ugwummadu, has commended the state governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, for his commitment to the development of Ndokwa nation.

EVEN for a nation inured to scandals, the revelation of the Speaker of the House of Representatives Dimeji Bankole eight months ago that civil servants embezzle N700 billion annually should shock and make Nigerians act against this sort of brazen corruption – if at all it is of that magnitude. It remains an allegation and […]

THE Special Adviser to Delta State governor on oil and gas, Mr. David Ekereokosu, has called for greater cooperation and partnership between Deltans and oil companies operating in the state.