By Chris Ochayi ABUJA—The Northern Union and South Souh Elders and Leaders Forum have jointly asked the National Assembly to authorise Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to become Acting President without further delay.  The forum, which took the decision at the end of a joint meeting, in Abuja yesterday, asked the National Assembly to urgently apply […]

…laments non-implementation of past commissions By Emmanuel Aziken ABUJA—The Senate yesterday brushed aside spirited moves for the imposition of a state of emergency in Plateau State on account of the continuing crisis in Jos, even as it adopted a resolution for the immediate implementation of recommendations of past commissions of inquiry into the religious crises […]

By Tony Edike ENUGU—FOR attempting to kidnap a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Chief Godwin Ezeuko, seven persons including a lady, are now in police net in Enugu. Police detectives from the Enugu Police Command arrested  the seven suspects while trying to abduct the legal practitioner from a hotel in the New Haven area of […]

By Emeka Mamah KADUNA — National Chairman of the Citizens Popular Party, CPP, Chief Maxi Okwu, has expressed shock over the alarm raised by Dr. Chris Nwabueze Ngige, the governorship candidate of the Anambra State’s Action Congress, AC, for the 6 February election. Ngige had stated that his name was missing in the voter’s register. […]

By   Innocent Anaba LAGOS—A Federal High Court, Lagos has restrained a firm, Atfreecal Ltd, Mr Jacques Gelin, Mr Nathaniel Abimaje and the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC,  from selling, disposing, transferring and dealing with the property and assets of the Anambra Motor Manufacturing Co. Ltd, ANAMMCO. The court also restrained them, their agents, servants and privies […]

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Dimeji Bankole, and former Senate President, Senator Pius Anyim, who lead 40 other eminent Nigerians to the Speaker, disagreed on a legislation that would censure Nigerians from sending their children abroad for schooling.

An end appears to have come for five young men who allegedly dupe United Kingdom (UK) visa applicants as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC yesterday in Lagos arraigned them before Justice Olubunmi Oyewole of an Ikeja High Court.

By  Richard Tosanwumi NIGERIA, our country was frontally assaulted by two major events at the close of the year 2009, which have greatly dented the collective hegemony of the Nigerian people, and bruised their international ego and reckoning among the comity of nations. These events were the serious down-turn in the health of President Umaru […]

IT is defeatist to look at riots as if they were indigenous to Jos, the Plateau State capital, which has had an unfair share of them. Riots, unrests, and variants of them, have become common Nigerian ways of expressing their anger at a federation that does not work.

ABUJA—The Federal Executive Council, FEC, yesterday adopted the Draft National Tax Policy for implementation with effect from 1 January 2010. The Minister of State for Information and Communications, Alhaji Aliyu Bilbis, disclosed this while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the Federal Executive Council meeting yesterday. Vice President Goodluck Jonathan presided over the meeting. Bilbis […]

Africans and Nigerians all over the world watched proudly as Barack Obama took over the mantle of leadership as the president of the United States .

THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State has absolved itself of the decision by Defence Minister, General Godwin Abbe, to withdraw soldiers serving in the Joint Task Force (JTF) set up by the state government to fight kidnapping and other violent crimes in the state.

The results of the accreditation exercise conducted by the National Universities Commission (NUC), has placed Bells University of Technology, Ota on a high pedestal among public and private universities in the country, with the Vice Chancellor of the institution, Professor Isaac Adeyemi describing the success of the university in the NUC’s assessment exercise as one of the giant strides made by the institution.

A DELEGATION of 41 eminent Nigerians led by a former President of the Senate, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim and his Deputy, Senator Ibrahim Mantu, yesterday, called on President Umaru Yar‘Adua to urgently transmit a letter of his incapacitation to the National Assembly to salvage the nation’s democracy from danger.

Led in evidence by the police prosecutor, Mr. Romanus Inuigbe, Muyideen said: “On the said date, my father told me to follow him to a place in Ikorodu to act a film. When we got there, he said I should kneel down, while he brought out a cloth, tied it on my face.