By  Kingsley Omonobi ABUJA—Twenty-four  hours to the Anambra State governorship election, the Nigeria Police Force has made good its resolve to ensure a free and conducive atmosphere for the conduct of the election,  with the deployment of 25, 000 policemen, the highest number ever sent to a state. Also deployed for the elections were seven […]

*FG spends N79bn on failed 6,000Mw project By Oscaline Onwuemenyi ABUJA—The current power outages being experienced in parts of the country may get worse due to inadequate gas supply to fire the turbine power stations. Consequently, power generation capacity has dropped to 2,700 Mw from 3,710Mw at the end of last year. The Minister of […]

The Northern Governors Forum, NGF, rose from an emergency meeting in Kaduna, yesterday, and affirmed that bed-ridden President Umaru Yar’Adua does not need to transmit a written document to the National Assembly for Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to assume the position of “Acting President.”

Leader of All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) in Edo State, Comrade Godwin Erhahon, has backed the resignation of the presidential candidate of the party in the 2007 presidential election, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) from the party.

By Henry Umoru ABUJA — YOUTHS under the aegis, Future Nigeria Group, yesterday warned members of the Civil Society Organisations and opinion leaders to discard plans to embark on mass protest geared towards forcing President Umaru Yar’Adua to formally hand over  power to Vice President Goodluck Jonathan. According to the group, which was led by […]

“Do you remember the last time we saw her? She saw us sipping cold garri over a plate of beans and she did not hesitate to join us to savour the delicacy. Segun James of Thisday said to this reporter at the one year memorial of late Mrs. Timi Alaere Alaibe held last Saturday at Opokuma, in the Kolokuma-Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.

Ahead of 2011 governorship election in Delta State, Chairman of the State House of Assembly Service Commission, Mr. Tonye Timi, has said that Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan has distinguished himself as a visionary leader who understood the dynamics of statecraft.

Daddy also expressed the view that it would be OK if the then President (Obasanjo) replaced him with a non-Rivers person who was a decent human being.

By Peter Duru MAKURDI — The Benue State Police Command has apprehended a group of over 114 suspected militia in Makurdi, in its renewed onslaught on armed groups in the state. Vanguard gathered that the group was apprehended at the North Bank area of Makurdi town on arrival from the far north in seven buses. […]

I will continue to count on experience and bring it to bear where and when necessary. We all lamented our failure to qualify for the last World Cup. I remember when we led in our group and appeared to be coasting to Germany 2006. The then Sports Minister Musa Mohammed was at loggerheads with the Nigeria Football Association.

A REPORT on former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar was presented to the United State’s Senate yesterday.

IN the last few weeks, the nation has been thrown into a bit of confusion arising from the absence from the country of the President, Umaru Yar‘Adua. That the President is ill and receiving treatment in Saudi Arabia is no longer news. What is perplexing is the strange and confusing behavior of the ruling party in sorting things out without rancor or litigation.

One of the main problems of Africa is leadership powered by visionless, self-glorifying, egoistic, power-conscious, unprincipled, mostly greedy, corrupt and vain political elites. But for people like Nelson Mandela who shun power and refused a second constitutional term which was his just for the asking, most people could have argued that this is a genetic African trait.

PRESIDENT Umaru Yar’Adua will hand over to Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan after transmitting a letter of his medical vacation to the National Assembly, the Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Mohammed Abba-Aji said yesterday.

By Hugo Odiogor Former Deputy Senate President, Alhaji Ibrahim Mantu, has blamed the recent crisis that swept through Jos and Bukuru metropolis on the poor leadership qualities of Governor Jonah Jang. He called for Jang’s removal as the governor of Plateau State. According to Senator Mantu, the state has witnessed three ethno- religious crises since […]