*Arrest 13 By  Tony Edike ENUGU—THE Nigeria Police has commenced fresh investigations into the 2007 mayhem in Osile, Ogbunike community of Anambra State, which claimed five lives and property worth millions of naira.

By Umar Yusuf YOLA—Stakeholders drawn from the North-East geo-political zone of the country on Nigerian Vision 2020 are brainstorming in Yola at a workshop to collate imputes for the implementation of the vision.

By Enyim Enyim ONITSHA—Two policemen attached to a commercial bank in the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State were yesterday shot dead by dare-devil robbers, along the busy Awka Road, Onitsha

By Anayo Okoli Umuahia—HUNDREDS of workers of Aba North Local Government Area of Abia state yesterday, stormed Government House, Umuahia, to protest the seven month salary arrears owed them by the council.

By Innocent Anaba LAGOS—A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday started hearing in the charge of trans-border trafficking in suspected pirated products brought against Clement Orakwe by the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC).

Flying Eagles coach Samson Siasia has backed Shuaibu Amodu’s tactical deployment which earned the Super Eagles a 0-0 draw against Tunisia in their decisive 2010 World Cup qualifier on Saturday at Rades.

By Richard Animam Come Friday 3rd to Sunday   5th July 2009, Anthony Village will witness a beehive of activities as Christus Sports International and Lagos State government kick-start a three-day community sports event tagged Top Town Challenge. The Top Town Challenge is an idea muted by Christus Sports International with the objective of opening access […]

A former Federal Commissioner for Information and National Leader of the Ijaw ethnic nationality, Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday, urged President Umaru Yar’Adua to direct the Joint Task Force (JTF) on the Niger-Delta to call off the search for wanted militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, since the Federal Government had made known its intention to grant amnesty to militants.

THE need to put the Community at the centre of national development has been identified as one of the most effective ways of promoting sustainable development and quality health, Minister of Health Prof Babatunde Oshotimehin has disclosed.

Debunking the rumour making the round that Fenog was formed and is owned by one Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, the company in a press statement Sunday at its premises at Ugbuwangue, Warri, said “we hereby state categorically and unequivocally that the said Fenog Nigeria Limited was not formed or owned either fully, partially or in any respect by the said Government Ekpemupolo.”

“As indicated in my New year message of goodwill which was published as an Op-Ed piece on January 1 by the Guardian, I expected this year to provide the opportunity for comprehensive peace in the Niger Delta and a new lease of life for new growth in the regio and much progress around Nigeria.

According to Enewaridideke, “It is relevant in dramatizing the promptness of First Marine and Engineering Services Limited in the discharge of its corporate responsibility as a company operating in the Niger Delta just as it is very prompt in sending relief materials to the devastated Gbaramatu communities in Warri south-west council.”

Ake, who spoke in Port Harcourt, said the party was intact, adding that it was not true that the party was factionalized between loyalists of the former governor, Dr Peter Odili and the present governor of the state, Rotimi Amaechi.

TOWARDS mitigating the burden of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Nigeria, the Federal government in collaboration with the Global TB Partnership and USAID, is conducting a prevalence survey of persons with TB that is resistant to treatment with first-line anti-TB drugs in the country.

It is a landmark survey that covers social, economic, political, ecological, and security issues in the region. It aims to address the information gap on the Niger Delta by providing robust statistical data on the views and opinions of the region’s inhabitants with respect to the pressing issues that affect their daily lives.