The flaw in British handover to North By  Sir Olaniwun Ajayi Political Power Imbalance “ON their (the British) departure, the plants of public order were in the process of being choked by weeds of insensate intolerance, the forces of progress were deliberately subordinated to the dead-weight of decadence and unsophisticated reaction/ native tyranny was enthroned […]

DELTA State Governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan, has urged all oil companies operating in the Niger Delta to, as matter of urgency, relocate their headquarters to the region if the area must witness meaningful development.
He also called on the people of the state to ensure that they collect their tax certificates.

By Dennis Agbo ABAKALIKI— THE Senate has asked President Umaru Yar’Adua to award contracts and commence work on the proposed second Niger bridge, which it said N4billion was budgeted for in the 2009 budget. The Senate said it was alarmed that the bridge has remained in danger and at the brick of collapse, wondering why […]

It was always going to be problematic. That much was certain- from the moment the Federal Government made its offer of ‘amnesty’ to those we’re now obliged to call former militants of the Niger Delta. How, some had asked, do you give amnesty to an individual never found guilty of a crime?

Death penalty is the solution to the menace of kidnapping, Delta Deputy Governor, Prof. Amos Utuama, has said.

A UNITED STATES-based Nigerian medical practitioner, Dr. Kenneth Oyarebu, was weekend kidnapped in South-Ibie in Estasko-West Local Government Area of Edo State.

THE dream of every Nigerian to have full access to comprehensive healthcare services through a realistic social health insurance scheme is set to be realised as soon as the amended Act of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is approved.

A PROMINENT member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, Mr. Victor Osarenren, has called on the National Executive Committee of the party to set the necessary machinery in motion to rescue the party in the state from the abyss.

THE world without Israel was heathen, gentile, who “were aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world” (Ephesians 2:12).

The responsibility for promoting and sustaining our health should be reflection of the basic relationship between ourselves, our families and the organisations we work for.” This was the submission of the Cornerstone Insurance’s Health/Wellness Consultant, Dr. Jack Mbom, at the maiden edition of its HealthFirst Initiative in Lagos.