TRAGEDY yesterday struck in Ughelli, headquarters of Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State as a middle-aged man was crushed to death by a truck.

The political tension in Edo state is heating up every day and as expected there is bitterness between the ruling Action Congress (AC) and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state.

“In my next administration, I’m hoping to first of all solve the problems from the source. You will remember I was talking about the US system which countered the negative effects of unemployment by establishing some institutional cushions to alleviate the poverty and the sufferings of the poor, the unemployed, the youths and their retraining programmes, and of course the provision of power

By  Vincent Ujumadu AWKA—NO fewer than 30 accident victims, deposited at the Catholic Church –owned Regina Caeli Hospital in Awka, since 2000 are to be given mass burial in December, if their relations fail to claim the corpses by that date. The victims, said to be deposited at the hospital by the police from the […]

By  Ise- Oluwa Ige ABUJA—The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja,  yesterday reserved judgment indefinitely  in the appeal by the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) founding National Chairman, Chekwas Okorie, in which he is challenging his  expulsion from the party by Chief Victor Umeh-led faction. This was after counsel to both parties in the case […]

Former Lagos State governor, and Chairman of the committee working on the manifesto and constitution of the mega party, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, said yesterday that the manifesto and constitution of the proposed mega party is to receive input from all national stakeholders and proponents of a new Nigeria.

GOVERNOR Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday advised lawyers to educate litigants to use Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanism in settling disputes to decongest the courts.

NIGERIAN students, under the umbrella of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), have rejected government’s plan to fully deregulate the downstream sector of the nation’s petroleum industry and called on President Umaru Yar’Adua to avoid civil unrest in the country.

Eyewitness told our reporter that when the cable fell on top of the roof, “one of the neighbours ran out and started shouting ‘come out, come out’, but as soon as the father of the house came out, while carrying one of the children with him, they were instantly electrocuted as he touched the iron burglary proof”.

Governor Olusegun Mimiko has decided to intervene in the crisis that engulfed the Ondo State House of Assembly over the insistence of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP-dominated House not to swear in a newly elected member, Akindele Adeniyi as the governor has scheduled a meeting with the 25 lawmakers.

Political tension in Edo State, heightened yesterday, following the sudden resignation of two Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) commissioners in the state.

The people of Gbarantoru community, a predominantly farming and fishing settlement in Yenagoa local government area of Bayelsa State, have raised an alarm over the ignition of a new gas flare furnace in their community by Shell Petroleum Development Company.

In the wake of so many allegations of inaccurate medical diagnosis in the country, the Lagos State Government has procured an ultra-modern digital x-ray machine capable of covering 95 per cent of conventional x-ray examinations at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH).

Ade, (29), Accountant: “I can’t remember clearly if the pains started immediately after I began menstruating or not. But if it didn’t, it couldn’t have been much longer. I began menstruating at the age of 14 years, a bit late because many of my age mates had started before then. Whenever the thing came, I would be so ill that going to school used to be a great problem.

By Emmanuel Elebeke For the physically challenged in Lagos State, the 25th anniversary of the  Committee for the Disabled (CODISA) will remain evergreen in their minds. Never in the last 25 years had physically challenged persons been so celebrated. In the country today, little or no attention is paid the physically challenged, but thanks to  […]