Ex-militant leader in Bayelsa State, Mr. Abogah Olali, a.k.a Commander Area, has cautioned against destabilising the current amnesty programme in the Niger Delta.

National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) and its Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies (SSAEAC) counterpart, have threatened to embark on nationwide industrial action over alleged moves by the Federal Government to inaugurate separate boards for the successor companies in Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN).

FOR the about two decades the School Village, Ikeja had been in existence , it had no reliable source of water supply. Both teachers and students usually trekked a distance of about 100 metres to fetch water.

MINISTER of Aviation, Babatunde Omotoba has the powers to suspend whoever he thinks is performing below the low expectations of his ministry. However, he does not have the right to titillate Nigerians with tales of the improved state of the equipment used in the industry.

Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State has said that the dissipation of resources and ample time in finding solutions to the myriad of health issues facing the state was due to the core concern of his administration to provide quality health care for the citizenry.

THE Federal Government and the Central Bank, CBN, are to provide a fresh N250 billion to buy back bad debts of banks under the ongoing banking reforms through the proposed Assets Management Company, AMC.

THE race to the governorship election in Anambra, now fixed for February 6, 2010 by INEC, indicates things are not going to be easy in the State. Politics, since Nigeria’s latest experiment with her ‘nascent democracy’, has never been an easy affair in Anambra State.

THE Lord’s marriage was the marriage of the male and the female created in God’s image for God’s creation purpose. The Woman created out of Adam was named by Adam; but marriage was the confession of kinship declared by Adam out of whom the Woman was made.

Action Congress in Bayesla State, yesterday, condemned what it described as the use of public funds by the state government to sponsor groups campaigning for the endorsement of Governor Timipre Sylva for a second term.
“It is a great shame and the height of deceit for the government to hire crowds asking for Sylva to run for a second term,” it said.

The Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, has condemned the call for violent change made by a chieftain of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, Alhaji Buba Galadima that Nigeria needs the “Jerry Rawlings formula”, saying it is not the solution to the nation’s problem but a prelude to total anarchy. National Publicity Secretary of the PPA, […]

A chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Jude Onya, has hailed the recent election tribunal judgment in favour of the Delta State governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, describing it as a victory for all Deltans.
Onya stated this, weekend, while reacting to the ruling of the retrial tribunal in Asaba, Delta State, which struck out Chief Great Ogboru’s petition challen-ging the election of the governor.

By Moyibi Amoda LAGOS — THIS piece is an appreciation of the amnesty approach to the Niger Delta Crisis. An amnesty approach to security, politics and conflicts is a legal approach. An amnesty is a general pardon of offence by government, a deliberate overlooking of offenses against a government.

By Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI—Angry reactions have continued to trail the recent alleged  killing of two citizens in Irete community, Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State by irate Hausa-Fulani herdsmen. Reacting to the bizarre cold blooded murder of the citizens, a prominent chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from the community, Chief C.Y. […]

NIGER Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has appealed for waivers from banks to enable contractors deliver on their jobs.

EFFORTS of the embattled former Chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Chief Bode George, and five others, to secure bail from an Ikeja High court that jailed them over the NPA contracts scam, hit the rocks yesterday as the same court refused their request.