AMUKPE community in Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State was thrown into confusion, weekend, follo-wing the death of a middle-aged man in a hotel room in the area.

The National Executive of Project Uduaghan International (PUI) will be inaugurated today, Novem-ber 24.
A statement by the chairman planning commit-tee, Mr. Steve Moeteke and Public Relations Officer, Mr Dotie Augustine, said the ceremony will take place at the squash court, Govern-ment House, Asaba.

The Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN), has condemned the strange Press Council Bill now circulating at the National Assembly which seeks to impose government control on the Nigerian press.

By Emeka Mamah KADUNA — Vice President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said Nigerians will not depend on generators for their electricity supply by this time next year. Jonathan spoke at the commissioning ceremony of the production lines of the new Peugeot 307 Sedan cars at the premises of the Peugeot Automobile Nigeria Limited (PAN) in Kaduna. […]

Loyalists of the immediate past governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, were apprehensive yesterday as the much- expected ruling by the Federal High Court, Asaba, on the application filed by Ibori seeking to strike out the 170-count charge filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) did not hold.

By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA—The Nigeria Police yesterday arraigned the 2007 gubernatorial candidate of the opposition Action Congress (AC), Engineer Rauf Aregbesola and a lawyer, Mr Olayinka Okedara before an Abuja high court sitting on a six count charge of conspiracy and forgery. The arraignment followed an earlier order procured from the court to prosecute the […]

By Enyim Enyim ONITSHA—The Peoples Democratic Party candidate in the 2007 governorship election in Anambra State, Dr Andy Uba, who recently lost his case at the Court of Appeal, Enugu , where he had sought to be declared Governor-in- waiting to take over from Governor Peter Obi on March 17, 2010, has said that the […]

By Emmanuel Aziken ABUJA—Erstwhile chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Chief Olabode George was yesterday listed among other notable Nigerians who got Federal Government houses at the expense of deserving civil servants. Others listed by the Senate Committee on Housing and Urban Development at the public hearing were former Minister of Foreign Affairs and […]

By Luka Binniyat & Tordue Salem ABUJA—There is a judicial buffer to the budget crisis rocking the National Assembly, as a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ruled that the House of Representatives can seek the court’s interpretation of the relevant sections of the Constitution. Members of the House of Representatives under the auspices […]

By Tony Edike ENUGU—LEADER of the People’s Progressive Alliance (PPA) in Enugu State, Chief Okey Ezea, yesterday, challenged the recent statement by Governor Sullivan Chime, in which he claimed that opposition parties in the state have been silenced by his development programmes.The PPA described the statement as provoking, misleading and a mere misrepresentation of facts. […]

TWO Policemen were killed yesterday in Port Harcourt and two others sustained gun shot wounds during a fierce encounter between the Police and gunmen around Woji road area of the state capital.

The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Chief Ufot Ekaette, said yesterday that the Ministry had not done anything to undermine the execution of the 2009 budget. He said that there was no justification whatsoever for the kind of attacks that the House of Representatives Committee on Niger Delta unleashed on him and the Ministry last week.

Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has cut short his foreign trip and returned to the state following the killing of a former member of the State Assembly, Mr. Charles Nsiegbe, by some persons alleged to be policemen, weekend, in Port Harcourt.

Former militant leader, Joshua Maciver, and over two hundred other aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the chairman-ship positions in the original eight local government areas in Bayelsa State were, yesterday, screened for the April local government poll in the state.

By Wole Mosadomi MINNA — THE  Niger State government has suspended 17 top government officials from office for conniving with contractors and politicians to defraud the state government of billions of naira. The civil servants who were fingered for inflating the contract sum in connivance with contractors during the immediate past administration will also be […]