A group of militants in the Niger-Delta under the auspices of Niger-Delta Survival Movement has broken ranks with the Movement for Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, the mainstream militant group in the region, saying the latter had lost focus.

THE Otebor Political Forum, OPF, in Udu Local Government Area, Delta State, has hailed the National Assembly resolution to install Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as Acting President of Nigeria.

THE All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, yesterday, sent a warning signal to Dr. Chris Ngige, the governorship candidate of the Action Congress, AC, and his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, counterpart, Professor Charles Soludo over their moves to cause crisis in the Anambra State over the conduct of the 6 February 2010, election.

A NIGER Delta group, United Niger Delta Energy Development Security Strategy, UNDEDSS, has commended Acting President Goodluck Jonathan for the recent cabinet reshuffle just as it said his “leadership holds the potential of heralding a period of positive change for Nigeria’s nascent democracy”

IT was cheery news recently when Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and his Abia State counterpart, Governor Theodore Orji, promised at the end of their meeting in Port Harcourt, to partner with a view to addressing the security challenges in border towns between the two states.

The events that led to the emergence of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan were as curious as ithey were intriguing both for the actors and for those who watched from the sidelines. In this interview with Hugo Odiogor, Deputy Political Editor, Professor Akin Oyebode, who teaches Jurisprudence, Faculty of Law, University of Lagos, bared his mind on the constitutionality and legality of the issue. He also spoke other national matters.

Senator Matthew Mbu Jnr was a member of the Senate from 1999-2003. In this interview with Vanguard, he said that though the decision by the National Assembly to empower the Vice President to act as President has lowered tension in the country, the National Assembly must, however, move a styep futher to conform with constitutional provision to compel the Federal Executive Council to declare the president not fit to continue in office

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Dr Alex Izinyon, yesterday, dismissed as arrant nonsense the argument by some lawyers that the February 9 resolution passed by the two chambers of the National Assembly empowering Dr. Jonathan Goodluck to assume full presidential powers in the absence of his boss lacked legal powers. He said the decision […]

A rally in support of the senatorial aspiration of Mr. Sola Jimoh holds today in Ore, Ondo State.

Delta State acting governor, Professor Amos  Utuama (SAN) has hinged the country’s quest   for good governance and development on its ability to conduct credible polls that would give the electorate the power to decide who governs them. Utuama, a professor of law, made the remarks at the 2010 mukoro mowoe memorial lecture series which held […]