Former militant leader, Joshua Maciver, and over two hundred other aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the chairman-ship positions in the original eight local government areas in Bayelsa State were, yesterday, screened for the April local government poll in the state.

By Wole Mosadomi MINNA — THE  Niger State government has suspended 17 top government officials from office for conniving with contractors and politicians to defraud the state government of billions of naira. The civil servants who were fingered for inflating the contract sum in connivance with contractors during the immediate past administration will also be […]

By Anayo Okoli Umuahia—A PDP chieftain in Abia State, Chief Benjamin Apugo has dismissed the idea of the National Assembly creating new states. He admonished the federal lawmakers to stop deceiving Nigerians with the promise of creating new states. According to Apugo, much as there is great need for more states, especially for the South […]

Worried about the shortness of time given for the public hearing on the Petroleum Industries Bill (PIB), a non-governmental organisation, Social Development Integrated Centre (Social Action), in collaboration with Stakehol-ders Democracy Network (SDN), is organising a communities and civil society consultative meeting to critically look at possible ways to improve it.

By Sam Eyoboka IT was a comedy of some sort as mairuwa (commercial water vendors) busied themselves trying to satisfy the water needs of the residents of the expansive barracks allocated to a detachment of anti-riot policemen, MOPOL 20, in the Lagos State Command. The water vendors were pushing locally made trucks carrying different colours […]

PRESIDENT Umaru Yar’Adua yesterday flew to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for medical check-up.
According to a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi, “President Umaru Yar’Adua will leave Abuja today for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday gave debtors of recently bailed-out banks two weeks to pay up or face another round of action.

THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State has debunked claims by Action Congress (AC) that the former Chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih, ordered the vice-chairmen of the local government areas where their chairmen decamped to Action Congress to take over the councils.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has offered automatic employment to graduates of Federal Polyte-chnic, Auchi, who emerged overall best in their various departments.

AT least four members of a kidnap gang were arrested by the Police at Ovwian, Aladja, near Warri, Delta State, while attempting to kidnap a five-year-old nursery two child on her way to school in the early hours of yesterday.

Nigeria defender Danny Shittu says he is making good progress on his way to recovery from the injury which kept him out of the Green Eagles decisive World Cup qualifying game against Kenya.

The Senate and the House of Representatives will separately receive the Federal Government’s 2010 budget of N4 trillion today, dousing the tension that had existed between the two houses over the venue for the budget presentation.

Former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Onanefe Ibori, has prescribed the restoration of a robust federal system and the building of an economy that is modernised and industrialised as the ultimate solution to the crisis in the Niger Delta.

THIS is the cost paid by God, the offering of His Son, that through the death of one Son, He may obtain many sons by faith in the death of the one Son offered to bear the sins of the many. This is why God says: “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more” (Hebrews 8:12).

THE U-17 World Cup football championship has ended and contrary to expectations that Nigeria would win the championship for a record fourth time, the country’s team failed to live up to this last-minute dream.