By Inalegwu Shaibu ABUJA—The Senate Committee on Water Resources yesterday affirmed that the N13.2 billion contract for the rehabilitation of Ogun/Osun and the Sokoto Rima River Basins Development Authorities awarded without the approval of the National Assembly was fraudulent. The Committee at a budget defence meeting with the Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources, Dr. […]

The US Republican Executive Committee Members of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission has appeal to the Ugandan President, Mr Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to soft pedal on the proposed anti-homosexual law.

Accord Party, AP, has condemned the defection of Senator Patrick Osakwe from the party to Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, describing his comments against AP as untrue.

A SOCIAL-cultural group, the Itsekiri New Dawn, yesterday accused some alleged self-acclaimed youth leaders of negotiating away their post-amnesty benefits and pocke-ting same for their own ends.

The Appeal Court had last week ordered a re-run election for State House of Assembly seat in Etsako Central local government area and ever since the court ruling, there had been several clashes between supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Action Congress (AC) in the area.

By Enyim Enyim ONITSHA—The governorship candidate of the African Liberation Party, ALP, Mr Imoyeto Ikeotuonye, who was allegedly wrongly substituted with one Mr Mike Nwafor, has dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, before a Federal High Court sitting in Awka, Anambra State. He is seeking the stoppage of the scheduled 6 February   2010, governorship […]

The Nigeria Football Federation will be richer next year.Apart from the millions of dollars that they will rake in from Fifa as World Cup finalists, they hope to renew their sponsorship contract with telecommunication giants, Globacom. The contract ended early this month but Globacom has the First Right of Refusal and they are considering the request of the football federation to raise the stakes.

AGAINST the backdrop of the latest attacks by unrepentant militants who claimed to be members of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, last weekend, the Defence Minister and Chairman of the Federal Government’s Amnesty Committee, Major-General Godwin Abbe (rtd), has warned that the government would not allow any group to disrupt the relative peace in the Niger Delta.

TEN years after the University of Ilorin sacked them during a labour dispute, the Supreme Court has ordered the university to reinstate 41 of the 44 lecturers.

THE Urhobo Renaissance Agenda, URA, a socio-cultural non-profit, non-political pressure group, has picked holes in the calls by some individuals and groups in the country for the resignation of President Umaru Yar’Adua from office, describing them as prema-ture and mischievous. The group added that the calls portrayed Nigerians as wicked.