By Dayo Johnson AKURE—LAWMAKERS in Ondo State yesterday rejected the N27billion supplementary appropriation bill forwarded to them by the state governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, citing irreconcilable figures in the bill. Dr Mimiko last month presented the bill to the Assembly for ratification after making use of the budget inherited from the former Governor, Dr Olusegun […]

“As a socio-cultural organization, we have been studying the trends of disagreements between Chief Gabriel Osawaru Igbinedion (the Esama of Benin) and His Royal Majesty, Oba Erediauwa, over breach of customary and traditional protocols with very keen interest.

Chelsea of England duo, Didier Drogba and Michael Essien, topped the list of the Glo/CAF African Footballer of the Year Awards unveiled yesterday by former Nigerian international, Victor Ikpeba, himself a one time African Footballer of the Year.

President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is reported to be getting better by the day, thank God, and we are told that he will return to Nigeria this week, and/or we will hear him broadcast to the nation before the week runs out.

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says it is carrying out a survey to determine the most corrupt state as well as the most corrupt geo-political zone in the country.

The General Emmanuel Abisoye Panel, set up by the Federal Government to investigate the 28 November 2008 crisis in Jos, began public sitting at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, (NIPPS), Kuru, Plateau State, yesterday, without its chairman.

The deplorable state of Edepie-Tombia road linking the university community of Amassoma in the Southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa State is now a source of grave concern to motorists.

For some decades, I have tried to examine, perhaps in a lurid manner, the perplexing state of the ‘Nigerian Question.

Amodu Shuaibu is human and he is superstitious. He believes God performed a miracle in Nigeria qualifying for the Copa Mundial and has used the Synagogue Church Of All Nations as a platform for showing gratitude to God. I did not hear him speak and so cannot ascertain his choice of words. Even the prophet will not say he did it but God.

VICE-President Goodluck Jonathan said yesterday that he was not worried by the political logjam in Anambra State, stressing that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) cannot stop the Peoples’ Democratic Party, (PDP, from contesting the next February 6, governorship election.

The Federation Account Allocation Committee, FAAC, yesterday, for the second time, ordered the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to appear before its next meeting to show reasons why it has consistently failed to remit to the committee, long outstanding crude revenue lodgments of over N450billion.

The much-touted good response to treatment by President Umaru Yar’Adua may not be the whole truth, after all, if authoritative feelers by Vanguard, are considered

By Albert Akpo LAGOS — CHAIRMAN and national coordinator of the controversial Police Equipment Foundation, PEF, Chief Kenny Martins, has reiterated the foundation’s commitment to turn around the face of the nation’s security agencies by striving to enhance and improve their conditions of service. He said even though in the last couple of months, the […]

By Charles Kumolu LAGOS — Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State  has dismissed insinuations that there is rift in the Action Congress, AC, saying the party remains a better alternative among all the political parties in Nigeria. He also declared that AC had the capacity to defeat any party in Nigeria, adding that the party […]

By Laja Thomas LAGOS — The importance of eating egg for the nutritional value of the human body has been enumerated to include reduced risk of stroke in men, reduced risk of breast cancer in women and dietary choline intake inversely associated with breast cancer risk. This was made known by consultant on egg nutrition […]