Chair-man of the South South Peoples Assembly (SSPA), Cross River State chapter, Chief Ambrose Akpanika, has expressed surprise that President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, who signed an appropriation bill of over 100 pages, could not sign a one-page letter authorising Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan to act as president in his absence.

By Gbenga Ariyibi ADO-EKITI—The Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, FERMA, has threatened to revoke the N500 million worth of road contracts being executed by some construction companies in different parts of the state because of alleged poor performance and not working to specification. Disclosing this to newsmen yesterday, the Head of Federal Road Maintenance Agency, FERMA, […]

By Emmanuel Elebeke LAGOS—As  President Umaru Yar’Adua’s absence continues to generate reaction from Nigerians, Imo community resident in Lagos, have urged the National Assembly to be bold and patriotic enough by allowing the relevant sections of the Nigerian constitution take its course in resolving the matter. The President-General of Imo State Town Development Association, Lagos […]

By Patience Ogbodo BAUCHI — Following the approval of new salary structure for members of Judiciary Staff Union of Nigerian, JUSUN, Bauchi State Chapter, the union has called off its three-month-old industrial action. Addressing a joint press conference in Bauchi, Executive Secretary, Judicial Service Commission, Lawal Ibrahim and Chairman of JUSUN, Musa Abubakar Jahun, said […]

Bayelsa State Government has dismissed claims of Governor Timipre Sylva’s membership of a clique planning to truncate the possible emergence of Vice President Goodluck Jonathan as Acting President.