ABUJA — THE Chief Judge of Edo State, Justice Michael Edokpayi is dead.He gasped to death Monday night in the room of his hotel located in Area 11, Abuja, after he reportedly slumped.

It was the third annual retreat of the Senate under Senator David Mark’s watch as Senate President. That indeed is a feat no other Senate President has been able to accomplish since the onset of the Fourth Republic.

By Laja Thomas LAGOS — NEWSPAPER Proprietors, Editors and other stakeholders in the media have reiterated the need for a Press Ombudsman to control and regulate the practice of Journalism in Nigeria. This was the conclusion reached at an Awareness Programme on Press Ombudsman organised by the Newspaper Proprietor’s Association of Nigeria, NPAN, in association […]

The Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, has advised all stakeholders in the nation’s political process not to heat up the polity ahead of the 2011 general elections.

THE Action Congress (AC) in the South West, has voided the alleged sack of the Sola Iji-led State Executive Council of the party and the appointment of acting chairman in Ondo State .

By Samuel Oyadongha Yenagoa — The Arch-Bishop of New Aba Province of the Anglican Communion, Dr. Ugochukwu Ezuoke, has hailed President Umaru Yar’Adua’s effort at enthroning peace in the troubled Niger Delta, saying without amnesty no amount of military force would have curbed the violence that almost destroyed the social and economic life of the […]

Protest by students of the Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, over the state government’s delay in resolving the institution’s internal problem, took a violent dimension yesterday, as unsuspecting motorists had their windscreen shattered.

A 31-year-old woman has been arrested by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) with 92 wraps of heroine, 14 of which she stuffed inside her hair.

Former Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose, yesterday lost his bid to stop the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from amending the corruption charges brought against him before a Federal High Court in Lagos.

Shaibu Amodu, the Super Eagles’ Chief Coach, might have performed his last function with the national team as the Nigeria Football Federation is thinking about hiring a foreign Technical Adviser to pilot the team to next year’s African Cup of Nations as well as the World Cup in South Africa.

Former Chairman of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA), Col Abdulmumuni Aminu (rtd), has called for the rejigging of the Super Eagles and their technical crew ahead of the African Cup of Nations and World Cup, both holding next year.

All the 13 countries from the sub-region to participate in the 1st ECOWAS Cycling Tour are expected to arrive Lagos today ahead of Thursday’s flag-off of the championship.

Barely a week after undergoing an intensive basic technical course in athletics, games masters and mistreses in Akwa Ibom State, will this week end put their acquired knowledge to the test when they line out their wards for the zonal finals of the Mobil sponsored Akwa Ibom State schools athletics championship holding Thursday and Friday November 19 and 20, 2009

By Nwakanma Chukwuma The Obi of Onitsha, Nnemeka Achebe, yesterday praised Chinua Achebe’s novel, Things Fall Apart, as a book which not only consolidated the foundations of Anglophone African literature, but opened a new page in the study of African peoples and culture. He said that Things Fall Apart continues to appeal to people of […]

A YOUTH leader in Igbanke community of Edo State, Mr. David Olubor, has condemned the spate of kidnapping in the country, particularly the recent abduction of a prominent member of the community simply called KOB, who was only released after N10 million ransom was paid. The youth leader, in a statement, also decried attempt to […]