The Yoruba Council of Elders (Igbimo Agba Yoruba) yesterday lent its voice to the lingering face-off between President Umaru Yar’ Adua and Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State over the creation of 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs), saying the decision was ill-advised.

By Etop Ekanem THE United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has suspended the Y-CARE project agreement with Young Women Christian Association of Nigeria (YWCA. The two-year-old Y-CARE Project which began in 2007 is an HIV/AIDS project designed by YWCA Nigeria and sponsored by USAID to ensure the war against HIV/AIDS is waged on all […]

ONDO State government yesterday declared that the 1,015 persons employed in the twilight of the last administration in the state as “Environmental Vanguards” failed to follow due process. It also said with effect from next year January promotion examination will form part of the ‘clearly defined performance criteria in efforts to rejuvenate the civil service and set it on the path of rebirth and growth”.

The Naira yesterday depreciated heavily against the British pounds and euro, losing an average of 700 kobo against the two currencies in the parallel market.

Osun State governorship candidate of the Action Congress (AC) in the 2007 general election, Chief Rauf Aregbesola, yesterday lost his bid to have a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, restrain the Inspector- General of Police, from arresting him over alleged forgery of police document.