Two prominent Nigerians including the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives during President Olusegun Obasanjo’s era, Hon Farouk Adamu Aliyu and a lawyer, Mr Hussaini Gabbas, yesterday asked a Federal high court sitting in Abuja to declare President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua unfit to continue with the functions of his office on medical ground.

As anxiety persists over President Umaru Yar’Adua’s state of health, hundreds of Christians and Muslims yesterday prayed for his quick recovery in Kaduna, capital of the old Northern region.

Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Michael Aondoakaa, SAN, has debunked claims that he wrote to the Vice President, Goodluck Jonathan to take over from President Umaru Yar’ Adua due to his ill health.

Ivory Coast coach Vahid Halilhodzic named a full-strength squad for the forthcoming African Nations Cup on Tuesday.
Halilhodzic — a Bosnian-born former Yugoslavian international — only omitted Sevilla midfielder Romaric N’DRi Koffi for apparent disciplinary misdemeanours.

The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has distributed tools and equipment worth N7.6 million to its trainees in Bayelsa State.

Gover-nor Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa State has approved the termination of the appointment of the Press Secretary to the state deputy governor, Mr. Charles Tambou.

THE Vice-Chairman of Etsako Central Local Government Council of Edo State, Chief Jacobson Nasamu, has debunked allegation that he led thugs to take over the council following the defection of his boss, Mr Joseph Ugheoke, to Action Congress, AC.

THE mem-ber representing Ughelli South Local Government Area in Delta State House of Assembly, Olorogun Taleb Tebite, has charged indigenes of oil producing communities in the state to maintain and safeguard government facilities in their communities.

FOUNDER of Dayspring Foundation, an NGO that caters for the needy and cancer patients, Mrs. Udy Okey Ezeala, has called on Nigerians to have faith, saying with God, nothing was impossible.

THE new Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin, Professor Osayuki Oshodin, has declared that his emergence was the handiwork of God and the prayers of Benin elders and ancestors.

Carlo Ancelotti has proved that Manchester United can be toppled. Chelsea are four points clear of Alex Ferguson’s men going into the Christmas break and despite poor results over the last few weeks.

WITH just a day to Christmas, unarguably, the most popular and widely celebrated Christian feast, the various bus terminals and markets in the city are now a beehive of activities as those intending to travel besiege the terminals to board vehicles to the hinterlands while those who intend to stay back, engage in last minute shopping to purchase what they need for the yuletide.

By  Sule Ya’u  Sule KANO State is beginning to reap the fruits of the modernisation agenda being pursued meticulously by the Malam Ibrahim Shekarau Administration.  At two different fora this past month, foreign and local investors, as well as financially able Nigerian professionals in the Diaspora, had cause to take a closer and informed look […]

The Commandant, Command Day Secondary School, Ojo, Lagos, Lt Col U.N. Babangida has called on teachers and parents to catch their children young by molding them into great minds before they pass out of secondary school. Babangida made this known recently at the school’s 19th annual inter house sports competition.

At the recent National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), held at Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, it was dismayed by the report of mass sack and intimidation at Olabisi Onabanjo University, (OOU) Ago-Iwoye.