This year’s celebration of Valentine Day will for long linger in the memories of residents of Yenagoa the Bayelsa State capital as the Governor of the State, Chief Timipre Sylva and his wife, Mrs. Alanyingi Sylva were awarded a brand new motorcycle popularly known as Okada for being the most romantic couple of the day at a time most Bayelsans are clamouring for the banning of Okada as a means of transportation.

Key supporters of President Umaru Yar’Adua in the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, are pushing for the conduct of the party’s presidential primaries in June.

FRESH controversy has continued to trail last Tuesday’s declaration by the Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE, of New Generation Telecoms as the winner of the bid for 75 per cent stake in Nigerian Telecommunications Limited, Nitel and its mobile arm, M-tel.

By Austin Ogwuda Asaba—DELTA State House of Assembly Committee on the Delta State Oil Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, has ordered the termination of a road contract awarded by the Commission over alleged shoddy performance by the contractor handling the project. The Committee led by Mr. Monday Igbuya, representing Sapele constituency in the House,  chided the […]

There is indication in Niger that there is a coup as President Mamadou Tandja and his cabinet are being held by soldiers after gun battles in the capital. And in a swift reaction,the Chairman of the Economic Communities of West Africa, ECOWAS, and Nigeria Acting President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan said he received with deep concern report of shooting around the presidency in Niamey, Republic of Niger.

THE Chairman, Senate Committee on National Planning, Senator Hosea Ehinlawo has said that the Senate would impeach President Umaru Yar Adua immediately the Federal Executive Council FEC declares him unfit.

Blind London-based Soprano, and teacher of singing, Victoria Ekenwa Oruwari who hails from Rivers State will give a recital at Muson Centre on Sunday at 6 p.m.

A late night inferno clamed about 12 relations, attending activities rounding off a naming ceremony at Charanchi quarters of Kumbotso local government of Kano.

The Action Congress, AC, has challenged Acting President Goodluck Jonathan to urgently lift the veil on those whom he said are engaging in a campaign of calumny against him, if indeed such a campaign is real.

THE seemingly lingering crisis between Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State and members of the state House of Assembly may have taken its toll on the passage of the state’s budget, as the appropriation bill is yet to receive consideration and eventual approval of the lawmakers, three months after it was presented to the House.