By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA—President of the National Association of Air Traffic Engineers, NAAE, Mr Isaac Orishaleye, yesterday, in Abuja, raised an alarm over what he called the “over-stretching” of Air Traffic Safety Electronic Personnel by long working hours, saying the situation has the capacity of impairing safe air travels in the country. NAAE certifies air […]

The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has blamed the handlers of President Umaru Yar’Adua for the crisis now tearing the National Assembly, the Executive Council of the Federation and the entire nation apart.

By Emeka Mamah & Victor Ahiuma-Young KADUNA — THE   Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday, in Kaduna, said the way the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, was handling President Umaru Yar’Adua’s ill-health and the transfer of executive power to the Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, was capable of truncating the nation’s democracy. Addressing the opening ceremony […]

Cross River State Government has said it would not hesitate to probe any village head who failed to produce eligible tax payer in their domain that defaults in payment of taxes.

Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has said chairmen of Akoko-Edo and Orhionmwhon Local Government Areas remained suspended, noting that the state government will ignore the resolution of the House of Representatives seeking to reverse the suspension, maintaining that the resolution was passed in bad faith.

TO ensure it fulfill promises made to the people of the Niger Delta region in the wake of the amnesty programme, the Federal Government, yesterday, started a process for the design and construction of the multi-billion naira East-West railway and the inland waterways transportation system in the region.

THERE is no doubt that the last two weeks belonged to the usual patience of the Nigerian people and perhaps, the consistent goodluck of the acting President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan in preventing what could be regarded as unnecessary constitutional crisis.

By Dennis Agbo ABAKALIKI—PARTICIPANTS at the recently concluded South East national workshop on compendium of localities of the National Population Commission, NPC, in Abakaliki Ebonyi State, have decried the marginalization of the zone in past  population census result in the country. The participants lamented that most of the localities in the zone were not counted […]

By Anayo Okoli Umuahia—HUNDREDS of people have been rendered homeless in Amaekpu Item of Bende Local Government Area of Abia State, following the rainstorm that destroyed about 80 houses in the community. Economic trees and other property valued at about N200 million were also destroyed by the severe storm. However, no life was lost in […]

WAR mongers and leading candidates for the International War Crimes Tribunal, Tony Blair and George W. Bush were in Nigeria on February 20. The twosome have made our contemporary world far more insecure and turbulent than they met it.

THERE is enough to worry about over the non-resolution of the issues around the health of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and the scratches its complications have left on the country. We wake up daily to new angles that consistently tilt towards the fact that the solutions are still a long way off.

WILLY Bazuaye epitomises the best and worst of the fate of Nigerian athletes. A former international, a coach with the Eagles, especially the U-20 team that won at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, he has been down with stroke since 2003.

I HAVE never fully understood why so many Nigerian politicians insist on bitterly informing anyone who will listen to their tedious tales of woe that they were forced to comply when Obasanjo (aka OBJ), our former President, “foisted” Yar’Adua on the PDP and the nation.

By Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI—Ahead of the congress of People’s Democratic Party, PDP,  in Imo State, major stakeholders in the state have resolved to be guided by the state Governor, Chief Ikedi Ohakim towards the constitution of a new state executive. They have also requested the National Working Committee of the party to call to order, […]

New York—Anambra Deputy Governor, Mrs Virgy Etiaba said in New York, yesterday that Nigerians should consider the option of a female president in the next dispensation to overcome the country’s current challenges. “Nigeria’s presidency needs a motherly touch,” Etiaba told newsmen on the sidelines of the ongoing 54th session of the UN Commission on the […]