ABUJA—The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday denounced what it described as the hypocritical chants of the opposition picking on former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and the leaders of the Action Congress for their alleged anti-democracy credentials. The party in a sharp riposte to last weekend’s resolutions at the national convention of the AC in Lagos accused […]

For the avoidance of doubt, the Action Congress as a party has never asked for the resignation of ailing President Umar Yar’adua. As a matter of fact ever before the pdp woke up we were the first to wish him speedy recovery. Our contribution to the recent development was actually to call for the amendment […]

The eerie voices of countless spirits, the bells that clattered behind some of them, and the clash of matchets as they ran forwards and backwards and saluted one another, sent tremors of fear into every heart. For the first time in living memory the scared bull roarer was heard in broad day light.”

THE Director, National Center for Energy and Environment (NCEE), Energy Commission for Nigeria, Dr Lawrence Ezemonye, has lamented what he described as the delay in making laws that would back all energy programmes in the country, warning that unless such laws were passed the total abolition of gas flaring in the Niger Delta will not be realistic.

TODAY my mind roves around. My mind seems suddenly on exile. In my thoughts I have traversed regions and cannot find a place of rest. I move as if without purpose, without a sense of direction.

The Minister for Power and Steel, Dr. Lanre Babalola, has commended Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State for being the first ever in the history of the country to actualise the power dream of making electricity available within every five kilometres radius.

Barely few weeks to Christmas, about 18 people, mostly residents of 65, Ikot Ekpene Road in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, are receiving treatment in various hospi-tals following different degrees of burns suffered when a petrol tanker rammed into some buildings and caught fire.

The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal will tomorrow give judgment on the legal dispute surrounding the controversial emergence of former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Professor Charles Soludo, as the flagbearer of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, for the February 6, gubernatorial election in Anambra State.

Small incision procedures such as hysteroscopy have been identified as the future of gynaecology in Nigeria and the world at large.

The Federal Executive Council, FEC, is considering holding a video conference with hospitalised President Umaru Yar’Adua as a means of assuring Nigerians that he was recuperating, to confirm the claim of his officials.