By Akoma  Chinweoke WORRIED by the vacuum created ingovernment by the prolonged absence of President Umaru Yar’ Adua who is on his  sick bed in Saudi Arabia, a group, Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL), has said the only way to save the country from an imminent doom was to institute a revolutionary interim administration for […]

By Simon Ebegbulem , Benin City-FORMER chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih, yesterday, launched a fresh attack on Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, saying that all the administration has  achieved in the last one year, two months is “ just planting of flowers at Ring Road”. Anenih, […]

SENATOR Iyabo Obasanjo – Bello says Mrs. Maryam Babangida would be remembered for the Better Life Programme she initiated as the nation’s First Lady. In a condolence message to the husband, General Ibrahim Babangida, the senator described the deceased as a role model to the female folks and a foremost crusader to bring attention to […]

URHOBO Federated Union says the argument that President Umaru Yar’Adua, on his sick bed in Saudi Arabia, is carrying out functions of his office through ministers is self-serving, unpatriotic and damaging to the country. It said in a statement: “Those who hold this argument though try to portray greater love and loyalty for the president […]

A GERMAN woman, Rahel Tecle,  has been accused of duping  a Kaduna-based indigenous company of about N2.94 billion ($195,750) worth of 1,305 carats of rough diamond. The company, Dan Arewa Investments Limited, which deals  in solid minerals, has already petitioned the German Ambassador to Nigeria over the matter which it described as “419” and copied […]

The Edo State government has commenced moves to get the Federal Government to provide funds from the Ecological Fund to deal with the problem of erosion in Auchi, Etsako West local government, area on a lasting basis. Comrade Adams Oshiomhole disclosed this at the palace of the Otaru of Auchi, Aliru H. Momoh, Ikelebe 111, […]

AN Asaba chief magistrate’s court has adjourned hearing in the five-count charge preferred against five  Itsekiri youths arraigned over post amnesty protest to 22 January. Charged were David Iwere, 43, Rocky Odele, 43, Macaulay Omatsola, 30, Otis Beedie, 35, and Charles Oko, 43. The  accused persons,  facing  charges of unlawful assembly and threat to peace […]

UMAR Farouk Abdulmutallab, who was docked in Detroit, USA, on Friday, for trying to blow up an airplane on Christmas Day, has warned that about 20 other young men are being trained in Yemen to carry out similar attacks.
British intelligence officials said Farouk, 23, had boasted during interrogation that “close to 20 other young Muslim men were being prepared in Yemen to use the same technique to blow up airliners,” CBS reported

NIGERIANS with wards abroad, especially in the United States, US, and United Kingdom, UK, have begun taking precautionary measures in a bid to ensure that their children do not come to harm following the blacklisting of Nigeria in the wake of the attempt by Farouk Abdulmutallab to blow up a plane in US last Christmas day.

FOR a country with a plethora of socio-economic, political and religious ills, would it not have been expected that in the wake of the attempt by a Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, to blow up an American jetliner, the government of the United States of America would come hard on Nigeria and Nigerians. That said, it does not in any way vitiate the reality that innocent Nigerians would bear the brunt of this listing which places Nigeria as a country of interest in the war on terror.