By Gabriel Enogholase BENIN – A BENIN-based legal practitioner, Chief Osaheni Uzamere, has called on the Nigerian press to continue to be at the vanguard of the war  against corruption in spite of the brutal murder, in 1986, of Mr. Dele Giwa, founding Editor-In-Chief of Newswatch magazine and other journalists who have lost their lives […]

By Simon Ebegbulem BENIN – FORMER Chief whip of the Senate, Senator Rowland Owie, yesterday urged President Umaru Yar’Adua to direct the appropriate ministries to revert the 40 per cent duties being proposed on imported tyres in the country in order not to further increase the pains experienced in the transport sector by Nigerians. Senator, […]

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA – Full-blown hearing into the criminal allegations of fraud leveled against five top Executives of the National Gallery of Art by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) could not commence yesterday as scheduled, owing to an application by the embattled Director General of the establishment, Chief Joe Musa, asking the […]

In order to check or eliminate the taboo associated with the social vulnerability of People Living With HIV/AIDS in Nigeria and to signify a major landmark in the campaign against HIV/AIDS, Mannerism Communications (MACOM) in conjunction the body of People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWA) and the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA)is hosting the first ever “Miss Positive, Nigeria “beauty pageant.

By Enyim Enyim ONITSHA – A governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressive Grand Alliance(APGA) in Anambra state, Chief George Ozodinobi, has threatened to drag the party to court for replacing his name in the list earlier submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) with Mr Peter Obi, as its flag bearer for […]

* Flown to Abuja from S-Africa in presidential jet By Daniel Idonor, with agency report ABUJA — Henry Okah, former leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, yesterday, stormed Aso Rock to hold talks with President Umaru Yar’Adua on the post-amnesty programme. Also yesterday, Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan reaffirmed the Federal Government’s […]

When Barnabas and Chioma Mbonu got married few years ago, their hope was to start a family as soon as possible and as fate would have it, Chioma took in almost immediately, and barely nine months later gave birth to a bouncing baby boy.

I HAVE a problem of grinding my teeth at night. I am also worried about the condition of my teeth, when the enamel of my teeth wears out, will it grow back?

By Festus Ahon UGHELLI- Chairman of Delta State Chapter of Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Dr. Ufuoma Pemu, has commended Delta State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, for his exploits in the implementation of the various health care programmes in the state. Pemu, who spoke in Ughelli last Tuesday during the 2009 Physicians’ Day, stressed the need […]

By Samuel Oyadongha Yenagoa – Almost nineteen months after Bayelsa State government promised building a Government Reservation Area (GRA) in Yenagoa, the capital city to ease the acute accommodation problem facing residents, the project is yet to take off. The state Commissioner for Lands and Urban Development, Chief Whisky Ayakeme, had last May, while enumerating […]