By Demola Akinyemi Ilorin–A car snatching syndicate, comprising of a motor dealer, an ex convict and two others suspected to be specialists in stolen vehicle in kwara state and its environs  were yesterday paraded by  the Kwara state Police command. The middle-aged men, whose names were given as Jeremiah Olalekan an Offa, Kwara state based […]

By Peter Duru MAKURDI — Residents of Makurdi, the Benue State capital have decried the activities of land speculators in the town who they lamented were frustrating the state government’s efforts at making land acquisition less cumbersome for intending land owners. Speaking under the aegis of Concerned Makurdi Residents (CMR), leader of the group, Mr. […]

ABUJA—The Federal Government has been challenged to follow the foot steps of the United Nations, who has remarkably succeeded in re-awakening the consciousness of the entire human race on the need to create a new world order on issues concerning women, children and other vulnerable classes of people in the society. This was the statement […]

The Minister of the Federal Captital Territory and former Governor of Kebbi State, Adamu Aliero, has sent a strong delegation of Under-17 players to the on-going Akpabio Cup.

By  Charles Kumolu AWKA—A group, Step UP Democracy Alliance (SUDA), has condemned  media report credited to Senate President David Mark, in which he was alleged to have said that Professor Chukwuma Soludo was imposed on Anambra State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The coalition of Anambra based youth organisation also said that the process that produced […]

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA—The embattled former Central Bank Governor and gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the 2010 governorship election in Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo, yesterday, approached the Abuja division of the Appeal Court, with a preliminary objection, seeking to void a subsisting appeal filed against his nomination by four […]

MANAGING Director of Mega Trend Investment Company, Mr. Sam Ogrih, has disclosed that the on going construc-tion of Plantation Estate in Warri would be completed by the second quarter of next year.

By Chinyere Amalu ABUJA—Matching with placards boldly written “Idoko where is the meaningful involvement, Stop the deception”, “Idoko don’t sabotage govt. efforts”, “Professor Idoko, Anti-NEPLWA”, etc, with a wooden casket covered with white cloth and flowers on top with boldly inscription “Prof. John Idoko R.I.P” hundreds of people living with HIV/AIDS stormed Abuja where the […]

It was a day of glory and celebration of professional accomplishment for author, publisher and journalist, Mr Peter Enahoro, popularly known as Peter Pan, at the public presentation of his book, titled “Then Spoke the Thunder,” yesterday in Lagos.

ENUGU—Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stakeholders in the South East, yesterday resolved to do all within their powers to ensure the victory of the party’s candidate in the February 6, 2010 gubernatorial election in Anambra State, Professor Charles Soludo.

By Peter Duru MAKURDI — As the world celebrated ‘World AIDS Day’, a mild drama played out in Makurdi at the ceremony as some members of the State Executive Council and  political leaders randomly selected for testing and counselling by Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State, turned down the nomination. However, the situation was saved […]

By Anayo Okoli Umuahia—ABIA State Command of Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC),  said it has  rescued about 17 young ladies said to be held against their will, in an alleged illegal maternity home located at Amarorji-Ukwu village in  Obingwa Local Government Area of the state. 14 of them are pregnant while four had […]

By Oscarline Onwuemenyi ABUJA—Fresh facts have emerged yesterday over the reason behind the strike action by Petroleum Tanker Drivers and the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, which led to acute scarcity of petroleum products in some cities of the country, especially Abuja . The two-day strike by the oil workers, it was […]

By Emmanuel Aziken & Shaibu Inalegwu Abuja — The Senate yesterday poured scorn on President Umaru Yar’Adua’s implementation of budgets with its presiding officer, Chief David Mark, urging the administration to immediately reorder his seven-point agenda to a manageable frame. Driving home its frustrations on the implementation of the budget by the administration, the Senate […]

THERE are basis to conclude that Femi Fani-Kayode’s memory is either fading or he is not acquainted with the readily available literature of the 1966 coup. This can be gleaned from his claims about where his father was taken to in Lagos. He claimed: “They (the coupists) decided to take him to Bonny Camp in Lagos which happened to be still within the control of the loyalist federal forces”.