The National Chairman of Action Congress, AC, Chief Bisi Akande has warned of impending danger ahead of the 2011 general election, except urgent steps are taken to review the nation’s constitution.

INDICATION emerged yesterday that nation’s oil industry may be thrown into industrial unrest before Friday as the oil workers threatened to shut down over alleged unfair labour practices especially casualisation of workers by major oil companies in the country.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has expressed concern over the recent job losses in the banking sector in the country, saying it would definitely affect the Lagos State revenue.

EMINENT professor of Political Science, Kimse Okoko is a reporter’s delight any day. He bared his mind on issues without minding whose ox is gored. He is currently president, Conference of Ethnic Nationalities of Niger Delta (CENND), a platform at the forefront of agitation for political space for the region. He was also the immediate past president, Ijaw National Congress, (INC).

Awka—No fewer than 15,000 police men are to be deployed to Anambra State, for the February 6 gubernatorial election, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Philemon Leha, has said. Leha said at a media forum in Akwa at the weekend, that 7,000 of the men will be from the state command, while the other 8,000 […]

AS the board of BankPHB meets today, one of the issues to be resolved is whether the caretaker Managing Director appointed by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, last October 2, is qualified and entitled to a three-week vacation when he did not spend up to the mandatory six months for Executives of the bank as stipulated by the bank rule books.

By Peter Duru MAKURDI — The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, has described the failure of the National Assembly to decisively address the current political logjam in the country as an act of cowardice, letdown and a threat to the nation’s democratic experiment. CNPP noted that the Federal legislature has failed in its responsibilities […]

*Hopeful on early passage of PIB By Hector Igbikiowubo &Yemie Adeoye LAGOS—THE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, expended N1.6 trillion (over $10.83 billion), about 57 per cent of its N2.8trn (over $19bn) to its cash call obligations last year. Meantime, the corporation said it was banking on the timely passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill, […]

By  Dennis Agbo AWKA—ANAMBRA State Action Congress, AC, candidate for February 6 governorship election, and former Governor of the state, Dr. Chris Ngige has asked his successor and incumbent, Governor Peter Obi to render account of over N350 billion. Ngige alleged that the  money was the cumulative allocations to both the state and 21 local […]

SECURITY has been beefed up in Jos, the Plateau State capital, following an outbreak of fresh violence in parts of the city which left about 15 people dead, yesterday. Many were reported injured while about four houses were torched in the skirmish which again took ethno-religious dimension reopening hostilities of the 28 November, 2008 crisis.