By Victor Otigbu ASABA—Anioma indigenes of Delta State, have concluded that the Anioma nation needed an apex umbrella body, which will champion the affairs of the Anioma people. They met recently in Asaba and deliberated on several issues on Anioma affairs. At the well attended consultative meeting, chaired by Chief Philip Asiodu, it was agreed […]

By Umar Yusuf YOLA —  Three members of the Adamawa State House of Assembly elected on  the platform of Action Congress, AC,  have dumped the party and pitched tent with the People’s Democratic Party, PDP. The members believed to be among the top AC  stalwarts in the state are, Ahmed Sajo Gella from Mubi South, […]

By Demola Akinyemi ILORIN — Decades of acute water scarcity for residents in Ilorin and its metropolis will gradually come to an end as the N6.5 billion contract awarded to ensure the repairs and replacement of  old pipes and construction of more dams is 99 per cent completed Commissioner for Water Resources, Alhaji Abdulmumin Katibi […]

Following recent disturbances at Auchi Polytechnic in Edo State, authorities of the institution have expelled 10 students found to be culpable.

Secretaries of State Scholarship Boards have been urged to be ICT acquiescent and create awareness among their candidates, aimed at making them to take full advantage of the newly introduced schemes by the Federal Government.

By Enyim Enyim ONITSHA—Retired senior police officers,  whose pensions were allegedly erroneously slashed by the National Pension Commission, PENCOM,  have petitioned the Police Service Commission to intervene in the matter. Spokesman for the group numbering about 100, Mr Elaigwu Agbogo, who yesterday addressed newsmen, said in addition to slashing their monthly pensions, PENCOM did not […]

Secondary school teachers in Benue State under the auspices of Academic Staff Union of Secondary School Teachers, ASUSST, have commenced an indefinite strike, demanding a 27 per cent salary increment.

A coalition of Small Scale Agro Producers of Nigeria, ASAPIN, has canvassed the breaking up of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources into two separate ministries.

I told my brother to quit this place but for five years all my pleas fell on deaf ears. I have a befitting accommodation in Mowe where I gave him three rooms but he ignored my advice, prefering to occupy two shops here with his four wives and 15 children.”

By Rev Msgr Gabriel Osu “What I do is discipline my own body and master it for fear that after having preached to others, I myself should be rejected (disqualified)” – I Cor. 9:: 27. When we offend someone and are sorry, we sometimes bring him/her a gift to show that we are sorry. Fasting […]

24 hours to the planned protest of the Save Nigeria Group, SNG, against continued absence of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua from national limelight due to illness and refusal of the Federal Executive Council to invoke Section 144 and declare him incapacitated, the Police in Abuja said it would not allow the protesters to move near the Presidential villa, destination of the protesters.

FIVE persons including two siblings of a member of Kogi State House of Assembly, Hon. Ibrahim Bababodo, have lost thier lives in a fatal motor accidents which occurred along the Felelee area of lokoja Tuesday night.

By Emeka Mamah Kaduna — Former Head of State and Presidential candidate of the All Nigeria People’s Party, ANPP, in the 2007 Presidential election, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, has said that the only option to the present political logjam in the country was for the National Assembly to start impeachment processes against ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua. […]

By Ifeanyi Okolie LAGOS—The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday placed restraining seals on, at least, seven properties belonging to the former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of BankPHB, Mr Francis Atuche in choice areas of Lagos. The exercise was carried out to give effect to an ex parte order granted the Commission […]

By Eric Ugbor Aba—Two Persons, a policeman and a civilian were  killed yesterday,  when securitymen said to be from the Ndiegoro police station in Aba, Abia State clashed with a group of people in an attempt to arrest motorcycle operators, popularly called Okada, operating along the deplorable Aba-Obohia Road, traversing the three councils of Aba […]