By Victor Ahiuma-Young ABUJA—NIGERIA Labour Congress (NLC), yesterday denied knowledge of any crisis in the leadership of Labour Party (LP), and called on all affiliates and the general public to discountenance reports of crisis in the party. NLC in a statement by its General Secretary, Comrade John Odah, insisted that the Comrade Dan Nwanyanwu-led national […]

ABUJA — President Umaru Yar’Adua has approved the appointment of Dr. Barclays Ayakoroma as Executive Secretary of National Institute for Cultural Orientation  (NICO). According to a statement signed by Minister of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation, Senator Bello Gada, the appointment of Ayakoroma has been approved by President Yar’Adua. The appointment which took effect from […]

By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA—President Umaru Yar’Adua yesterday promised that he would neither shield nor protect any public official who runs foul of the law or breaches the Code of Conduct for public officers. He spoke on a day the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Justice Constance Momoh called for abrogation of Section […]

THE Business Manager, Undertaking, Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), Ughelli, Delta State, Mr. Francis Iyayi, yesterday narrowly escaped being lynched by protesting residents of Emuobor Street in the metropolis.
Residents of Emuobor street came out in their numbers in the early hours of yesterday protesting the power outage in the area in last two months.

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA — Director-General of the Inter-governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing in West Africa (GIABA), Dr Abdullahi Shehu, yesterday in Abuja disclosed that Nigeria came top on the list of countries that has failed to comply with anti-money laundering standards as set out by the Economic Community of West […]