Operatives at the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti Yaba, Lagos, have begun investigation into the death of a Youth Corp member whose lifeless body was at the weekend found dangling from a ceiling fan of an apartment in Abule-Egba area of Lagos.

Governorship candidate of the Action Congress (AC) in Osun State, Alhaji Rauf Aregbesola yesterday tendered five additional extra-large Ghana-Must-Go bags of ballot papers used for the conduct of the election in Odo-Otin Local Government where his opponent, Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola hails from before the Osun State Election Petition Tribunal.

CIVIL servants in Ogun State yesterday said they would soon join other striking workers in the State, if the State Government fails to accede to their demand for improved pay package and better working conditions by next week.

EKITI—Governor Segun Oni of Ekiti State has absolved himself from the alleged plot to impeach the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Mr Olatunji Odeyemi and his deputy, Mr Saliu Adeoti, saying the state executive does not meddle in the affairs of the legislative arm of government.

The National Judicial Council (NJC), has recommended Chief Mike Ahamba (SAN), the lead counsel to Maj-Gen Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential flag-bearer of ANPP, for disciplinary action.

Worried by the untold hardship Nigerians may face due to the Federal Government’s planned deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry scheduled for November 1, the Human Rights Writers’ Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has called on the Nigeria Labour Congress and other civil society organisations to organise mass action to protest what they described as the unpopular policy.

The Federal Government has rejected the August 10, 2009 verdict handed down by the immediate past Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Abdullahi Mustapha, which annulled the revocation by the government of two oil prospecting licences granted to a South Korean consortium in respect of oil blocs 321 and 323, four years ago.

Workers of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), under the auspices of National Union of Air Traffic Employees (NUATE) and Air Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ATTTSAN), yesterday took over the General Aviation Terminal (GAT) of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, to stop Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited from taking over the facility.

Former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Nuhu Ribadu, has threatened a court action if the government moved ahead with the decision not to renew his passport.

Felix Anyansi Agwu made a remark on stage at the AIT/MTN Footballer of the Year Awards. It turned out to be a major issue on the occasion that was graced by many big shots in Nigerian football.

Nsukka — Normal academic activities are yet to start at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) in spite of the  suspension of the nationwide strike by UNN lecturers yet to resume. ASUU had on Friday  suspended its almost  four-month-old strike for two weeks to enable the government sign the agreement between it and the university […]

Governorship aspirant on the platform of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), Mr Emeka Etiaba, has described the recent party’s primaries won by a member of House of Representatives, Mrs Uche Ekwunife, as a joke. Etiaba in a statement, yesterday said, “On October 8, 2009, the PPA organised its primaries with a view to electing its […]

When I read on the pages of the print media that FIFA intends to use the MRI age test for the forthcoming U-17 Championship, I was excited to the level of fulfilment. It appears that Sepp Blatter and his FIFA are set to return to the glory of sporting morality that had for a long time been jeopardised and violated through massive age fraud and deliberate infraction of its statutes with impunity.

By Bose Adebayo & Kingsley Adegboye SOME weeks ago, it was one of several potholes which punctuate the entire stretch of the usually traffic-busy Oshodi-Apapa Expressway.

Despite crowd trouble which almost marred last weekend Champions league second-leg semi- final between Kano Pillars and Heartland, the Nigeria 2009 Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the FIFA Under-17 World Cup Kano a clean-bill to host the FIFA Under- 17 World Cup billed for October 24 to November 11.