NIGERIA’S election reform process is faltering. The 2007 election was a disaster for the country, in more ways than one.

Bayelsa State House of Assembly yesterday resolved to support the decision of the state government to permit the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) to collect tariffs from residents of the state with the passage of a Bill repealing the State Electricity Board Law 2006.

Former beauty queen and actress, Ibinabo Fiberesima, narrowly escaped being sent to jail by trial judge in the matter, Justice Deborah Oluwayemi of a Lagos High Court, which yesterday momentarily revoked her (Ibinabo) bail and ordered that she be remanded in Kirikiri Prison, Lagos.

NOBODY appears interested in electoral reforms. The  dances that pass for moves to make defining changes in the way Nigeria conducts elections cannot produce any meaningful changes because the holders of power cannot make moves that they are not sure would leave powers in their hands. Justice Umaru Abdullahi, out-going President of the Court of […]

By Henry Umoru ABUJA—A group under the aegis, Igbo Youth Forum yesterday dismissed the prediction of doom by Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu that war looms in Anambra State if Andy Uba obtained favourable judgment from the Appeal Court, even as they called on him to apologize to the people of Anambra and the entire Ndigbo […]

REPENTANT militants in the Niger-Delta have turned down the directive by the Presidential Panel on Amnesty and Disarmament of Militants to report to camp for rehabilitation latest yesterday, saying the rehabilitation plan in its entirety was not clear to them

A Technical Support Committee set up by Delta State government to advise it on how to make the Delta State Oil Producing Communities Development Commission (DESOPADEC) more functional and service delivery-oriented has recommended the appointment of an external audit/management panel to streamline the structure and workload of staff of the commission.

THE Ekpoma branch chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Mr. Nath A. Inegbedion and three of his children were kidnapped at Ekpoma, yesterday.

POOR leadership in Nigeria starts from picking the team list. Nigerian leaders have rarely demonstrated visionary thoroughness in choosing the people with whom to work.

Delta State House of Assembly, yesterday, passed the budget proposal of N30 billion as the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) 2009 budget.

THE Jigawa State government has awarded four additional new roads contracts as it equally approved for the rehabilitations of some others at the total cost of about N14 billion.

FOR many years, the Nigerian National teams depended on their wingers to produce the goals or to disrupt the opposing defence in order for the rampaging strikers to find the net.

THE Federal Government, on the second day of its meeting with leaders of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday, admitted that its planned deregulation of the downstream sub-sector of the petroleum industry will lead to an increase in the pump price of petrol.

Attestation to former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s love for education came from eminent persons across the world at the Maiden Convocation of Bells University of Technology (BUT), Ota, Ogun State, for the conferment of degrees and presentation of prizes, last Saturday.

THE National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Seme border yesterday intercepted a truck load of weeds suspected to be cannabis otherwise known as Indian hemp. No arrest was made.