By Jimitota Onoyume PORT HARCOURT — The Joint Task Force (JTF) has warned that it would not tolerate any attempt to threaten the peace in any community  in the Niger Delta. Spokesman of the security body, Col  Timothy Atinga, who spoke against the backdrop of alleged shooting in Kula community, Rivers State, assured those in […]

By Demola Akinyemi Ilorin—Kwara state government, in partnership with foreign experts, has concluded arrangements to establish an ultra-modern  diagnostic centre, first of its kind in the entire sub-Sahara Africa at the cost of N2bn. The diagnostic centre, to be constructed by Tangent Nigeria Ltd, when fully completed in the next six months, would diagnose all […]

By Tony Edike ENUGU— CONTRACTORS handling  the rehabilitation of the Enugu-Port-Harcourt Expressway and the Enugu – Onitsha Expressway have been  seriously reprimanded by the Senate Committee on Works for failing to perform, six months after the contracts were awarded. The Committee after an inspection tour of the two roads, expressed disappointment at the slow pace […]

By Vincent Ujumadu AWKA—CONTROVERSY has trailed Governor Peter Obi’s nomination of seven persons as chairman and members of the Anambra State Independent Electoral Commission (ANSIEC). This is coming, as the State House of Assembly, yesterday  returned the list of nominees to the executive over allegation that the letter forwarded to the House stayed 26 days […]

Continues from yesterday (2) It shall be the duty of a person appointed under subsection (1) of this section, to report to the Council on — (a) the adequacy of the instruction given to person attending such approved courses of training at institutions visited by him; (b) the adequacy or otherwise of the examinations attended […]

IF tributes have the power of raising the dead, the late honourable Justice Muri Aremu Okunola would have come back to life two Saturdays ago.

You recently advised a 20-year-old man that when he’s with a woman he cares for, he shouldn’t hesitate if they both wanted to know each other sexually; that making love was the most natural thing in the world. I agree with you that it is – with love and commitment in marriage.

IT is exactly 60 years today November 18, 2009 when armed British colonial policemen opened fire on defenceless coal miners in the Iva Valley mine in Enugu. In those moments of collective colonial insanity, the colonialists within minutes murdered 21 Nigerian workers and injured 51.

OUR late father used to advise us not to judge our friends by what they say but what they do. I have, all my life, tried to keep to this advice, not only in choosing my friends but also in deciding whom to relate to or do business with. And, I have never been disappointed in my assessment of people.

By Simon Ebegbulem BENIN — GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, yesterday, expressed his gratitude to President Umaru Yar’Adua for approving the deployment of the military for the Joint Task Force operation, tagged Operation Thunderstorm in the state. The governor said the participation of the military in the security outfit would go a long way […]

Unfortunately, right from Nigeria’s emergence from British Colonial rule, she entered into murky waters and she consequently lost focus and got lost in the wilderness of misunderstanding.

By James Ezena A coalition of civil society and human rights groups, the Transition Monitoring Group, TMG, has raised the alarm over alleged fresh plots by some powerful individuals in the country to frustrate the President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua administration’s anti-corruption campaign. The TMG disclosed this yesterday in a statement by its chairman and publicity […]

LAGOS — Transparency International yesterday ranked Nigeria 130th out of 180 countries surveyed in the 2009 corruption perception index.

ABUJA — THE Chief Judge of Edo State, Justice Michael Edokpayi is dead.He gasped to death Monday night in the room of his hotel located in Area 11, Abuja, after he reportedly slumped.

It was the third annual retreat of the Senate under Senator David Mark’s watch as Senate President. That indeed is a feat no other Senate President has been able to accomplish since the onset of the Fourth Republic.