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Enugu Trade Fair preparations heighten

Enugu Trade Fair preparations heighten

Three days to the 21st Enugu International Trade fair, activities are in top gear at the fair’s venue. A NAN correspondent, who visited the trade fair’s permanent site in Enugu, yesterday, reports that construction of pavilions was going on, with scores of carpenters and electricians on duty.

Delta beefs up security

Delta beefs up security

By Austin Ogwuda ASABA—DELTA State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, yesterday held a security meeting at Government House, Asaba, which lasted several hours. This came on the heels of security beef-up in and around Government House, Delta State House of Assembly and other public buildings. Usually, the state governor holds a weekly security meeting in Warri, […]

Delta beefs up security

Delta beefs up security

By Austin Ogwuda ASABA—DELTA State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, yesterday held a security meeting at Government House, Asaba, which lasted several hours. This came on the heels of security beef-up in and around Government House, Delta State House of Assembly and other public buildings. Usually, the state governor holds a weekly security meeting in Warri, […]

2011: Group mobilises for Gov Chime

2011: Group mobilises for Gov Chime

ENUGU—Ahead of the governorship elections in January based on the new Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,  time table,  the Mandate Organisation for Governor Sullivan Chime has commenced the mobilisation of electorate in all the 17 local government areas of the state. Speaking to reporters in his office in Enugu, the leader of the organisation,  Mr […]

Buhari joins Congress for Progressive Change

Buhari joins Congress for Progressive Change

By Emeka Mamah KADUNA— Former Head of State and Presidential candidate of the All Nigeria People’s Party, ANPP, Major-General Mohammed Buhari, has now joined the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC. Buhari who was the flag bearer of ANPP in 2003 and 2007 presidential elections resigned from the party on February 1, 2010 due to irreconcilable […]

Obi’s second term begins  *Assures of better days ahead

Obi’s second term begins *Assures of better days ahead

By   Dayo Benson, Political Editor, Vincent Ujumadu and Tony Edike AWKA—AT exactly 12.22 pm yesterday at the famous Alex Ekwueme Square in Awka, Governor Peter Obi took the oath of office for a second term in office as Governor of Anambra State, making him the first to achieve the feat. Governor Obi, who arrived the […]

Sylva blames Warri bomb blast on security lapses

Sylva blames Warri bomb blast on security lapses

By Samuel Oyadongha Yenagoa—Governor Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa State yesterday expressed concern over last Monday’s bomb attack that disrupted Vanguard’s Post-Amnesty Conference in Warri, saying security was taken for granted. Answering questions from newsmen in Yenagoa, Chief Sylva, who insisted that the Nigeria media was target of the attack, said he had believed that the […]

Warri: The Vanguard Emperor Is Under Fire…

Warri: The Vanguard Emperor Is Under Fire…

[….at the Vanguard War Room at the Kirikiri base of the Vanguard Regimental Command….Enter Admiral KKK Omoregie, Major General One Leg Atamuna, VRC Adjutant, Major Olabisi Olakankinta, Major 419 Oboh Utueke,and for the first time since he abandoned the VRC to join forces with the MENDO Atlantic Revolutionary Suicide Squad, the good old RSM Okon Bassey is back on parade] .

I know nothing about MEND’s operation – Akhigbe

I know nothing about MEND’s operation – Akhigbe

LEADER of the Aaron team of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, and former Chief of General Staff, CGS, Vice Admiral Mike Okhai Akhigbe (rtd) has confessed that he knew nothing about the modus operandi of the militant group.