By Emma Amaize WARRI—GOVERNORSHIP Candidate of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) in the last governorship Election in Delta State, Comrade Emmanuel Igbini, has said that yesterday’s dismissal by the Retrial Election Tribunal sitting in Asaba of the petition filed against the election of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan by the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) governorship candidate, Chief […]

By Henry Umoru & Oscarline Onwuemenyi ABUJA – A group under the aegis, Soludo-Anosike Solidarity Group (SASOG), has described those alleging that the flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the Anambra State governorship, Professor Chukwuma Soludo made attempts to bribe them as detractors. According to the group, there was the need for them […]

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 […]