By  Vincent Ujumadu AWKA—NATIONAL Chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Umeh, has said in Awka, Anambra State that the February 6, 2010 election in the state would give the people, the opportunity to elect their own leader, insisting that the people were determined to resist any undue interference by what he called […]

LOCAL government chairmen in the country have been charged to re-direct and re-energise the youths in their areas to agricultural activities to disengage their minds from social vices.

…files fresh charges against Finbank boss By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA–The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday appealed against the judgement of a trial court discharging the former National Coordinator of the Police Equipment Foundation (PEF), Chief Kenny Martins and three others from any complicity on the alleged diversion of monies belonging to organization. Other […]

By  Vincent Ujumadu AWKA—THE All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Anambra State has faulted the statement credited to the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2010 governorship election in the state, Professor Chukwuma Soludo over the security situation in the state, that the state needs a first class brain to govern it, […]

THERE is one thing one cannot take away from Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu , Ezeigbo Gburugburu – his passion for his people and his deep-rooted concern for their well-being. One thing we have come to associate with Ojukwu is his ability to speak for his people whenever he perceives danger lurking against them.

Arik Air made history yesterday morning when it touched down at the JFK International Airport in New York, and this makes the airline the first Nigerian carrier to operate flights into the U.S. in the last decade. The liquidated national carrier, Nigeria Airways, stopped operations into New York at the peak of its management crisis, […]

*As oil coys invest $21bn on PSC blocks By Hector Igbikiowubo, Yemie Adeoye & Oscarline Onwuemenyi ABUJA—THE Federal Government, yesterday, stated that there was no going back on oil and gas industry reform, even as it pointed out that the industry was facing core challenges that has made the nation’s oil and gas industry perform […]

By Laide Akinboade ABUJA — In spite of the hospitalisation of President Umaru Yar’Adua in a Saudi hospital, the Minister of Information and Communications, Professor Dora Akunyili, yesterday, said the Federal Government machinery would continue to operate optimally. The President who is currently on treatment abroad has elicited unprecedented debate on whether he should continue […]

THAT’S the truth of our present condition- we get by. Somehow: In the apparent stagnancy of our existence as a country, a people, we manage to move on- somehow. We are now in December, the last month of the year which several months ago we were promised would put an end to our life in the dark.

THE need for affirmative action and essential support in educating Nigerians about the HIV and AIDS epidemic while ensuring greater protection for pregnant women and children from HIV transmission, coupled with enablement of greater financial resources for Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) and improved access to HIV treatment remain key issues in Nigeria even as the country joins the rest of the world to mark the 11th World AIDS Day (WAD) today.

In every country, women and girls are in most cases vulnerable to violence with its attendant suffering. Such violence undermines development, creates instability and makes peace much harder to achieve. It was in recognition of this that November 25 was set aside as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

As part of efforts aimed at further reducing the high rate of maternal and child mortality, in the country, the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), has so far committed a total of N1.2 billion in the second year of implementation of the NHIS/Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) maternal and child health project.

…Power ministry bandies excuses By Hector Igbikiowubo THE Federal Government has failed to deliver on its planned target to generate 6000 Megawatts (MW) of electricity for the national grid by December 2009, even as the Ministry of Power bandies excuses over this failing, pleading gas supply inadequacy, sabotage, the Niger delta crises, etc. At the […]

President Umar Yar’Adua is worried by increasing incidents of food poisoning in the country, hence the creation of the Association of Drinks Food Operators of Nigeria (ADFON) to instil proper hygienic conditions in public eating outlets.

MANAGING Director of Delta Mega Trend, Mr. Sam Ogrih, has commended Delta State governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, for initiating and citing the ongoing construc-tion of mega estate in Warri.