The Action Congress (AC) has described the murder of Otunba Dipo Dina, its gubernatorial candidate in Ogun state during the 2007 general elections, as the latest indication of a rising culture of intolerance and insecurity in the country.

ENUGU—Enugu State Government has set aside N150 million as counterpart fund for the take off of the World Bank Assisted Rural Access and Mobility Project, RAMP, for 2010. Governor Sullivan Chime announced this on Monday in Enugu in a message to a stakeholders workshop on “Identification, Selection and Prioritisation of Rural Road Networks in Enugu […]

Katsina — The Katsina State Government has selected 400 Quranic schools for integration into the formal education system. Alhaji Sani Adamu, Executive Director, Agency for Mass Education, said at a stakeholders’ meeting in Katsina, yesterday, that government had already released N50 million for the implementation of the programme. He said arrangements had been completed for […]

By Abdallah el-Kurebe & Gbenga Oke Sokoto — The strike action embarked by the Judicial Staff Union of Nigeria in Sokoto, yesterday, stalled the trial of former Governor and DPP Presidential candidate in the 2007 general elections, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, at a Federal High Court. The case file was said not to have been found […]

By Emeka Mamah KADUNA — A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the Federal Government to release forthwith the international passport of Alhaji Mohammed Sani Abacha, son of the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, which it seized from him in 1999. The court gave the order while ruling on an application […]

By Udo Ibuot THE National Association of Telecommunications Subscribers, NATCOMS, has urged the current leadership of the  Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, not to be involved with any tariff reduction beyond 2010 since it has few weeks left in office. The association said the current leadership should go beyond fixing the inter-connect rate which is the […]

By Isiaka Oyibo LOKOJA — ABOUT     30,000 Mega watts generation capacity of electricity would be required to attain  Vision 20: 2020 programme of the Federal Government,   Minister of Power, Dr. Lanre Babalola,has said. Babalola, in a keynote address yesterday at a Ministerial Retreat for the power sector ministries, departments and agencies in Lokoja, also […]

A Muslim leader in Rivers State, Dr. Abdulrazag Kilani, has urged President Umaru Yar’Adua to transfer power temporarily to his vice, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, until such a time he was strong enough to assume responsi-bilities as president.

By Taye Obateru Jos — The Youth Wing of the Christian Association of Nigeria, YOUTH CAN, in Plateau State has faulted the mass burial given to supposed Muslim victims of the crisis in the state capital, saying some of them could be Christians. Reacting to the mass burial given to about 300 Muslims, allegedly killed […]

The Action Congress gubernatorial candidate in the 2007 elections in Ogun State, Dipo Dina was killed last night.

IJAW youths, weekend, vowed to resist with the last drop of their blood further exploration and exploitation of oil in the Niger Delta, if Vice President Goodluck Jonathan if not allowed to function as acting president because he is an Ijaw man from the South-South geo-political zone.

By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA—RELATIONS of victims of a killer-drug known as “Trovafloxacin,” who can prove death or permanent incapacitation following its administration in 2006 on 200 patients, suffering from meningitis in Kano State are to be compensated by Pfizer with N26, 250, 000 ($ 175, 000 USD) each. The disclosure came during the official hand […]

A MAJOR threat to the peace amnesty deal emerged, yesterday, in the Niger Delta when ex-militant leaders led by Ateke Tom and Government Ekpemupolo, a.k.a. Tompolo issued a statement urging President Umaru Yar’Adua to immediately empower Vice President Goodluck Jonathan as Acting President until such a time he would be strong enough to take back his job.

SOUTH-SOUTH governors may review their lackadaisical attitude towards the Vice President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, and his probable inauguration as acting president, when they meet in Benin City, Edo State, during the week, in deference to some concerned elders and leaders of the region who have embarked on a fence-mending mission.

By Ndahi Marama MAIDUGURI — A group under the umbrella of Borno Muslim Forum, BMF, has called on the Federal and Plateau State governments to immediately constitute a panel of inquiries to investigate the remote and immediate causes of the recent Jos mayhem with a view to bringing culprits to book. The forum, in a […]