By Sam Eyoboka LAGOS — NORTH Central zonal chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Rev. Yakubu Pam, has blamed the ruling party, the PDP, for the current political impasse in the country, saying the self proclaimed biggest party in Africa has failed to bequeath to the nation true democratic principles. According to him, […]

By Gbenga Oke A GROUP,  Nigeria Unity Group, NUG, has condemned  the manner President Umaru Yar’Adua was brought into the country without the knowledge of Acting President Goodluck Jonathan, describing the move as a threat to democracy. It also noted that bringing the ailing president back in that way was an affront to the Constitution […]

By Wole Mosadomi MINNA — Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu of Niger State has cautioned ministers in the country not to plunge the country into chaos with their alleged deceitful behaviours and utterances over the health of President Umaru Yar’Adua. Speaking at the Vision 20:2020 implementation plan (2010-2013) for North Central Forum comprising participants from Benue, […]

By Peter Duru MAKURDI — A   publisher in Benue State, Chief John Akpereshi, has dragged the Chairman of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote to the Federal High Court sitting in Makurdi seeking the nullification of purported sale of Benue Cement Company, BCC, to the Dangote Group of Industries by the Federal Government. Akpereshi is […]

By Emeka Mamah Kaduna — Labour  yesterday described the ongoing dispute between the supporters of President Umaru Yar’Adua and the Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, over which group controls the government as a continuation of the crisis between the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and his deputy, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. It, therefore, urged Nigerians not […]

By Tony Edike ENUGU—HUNDREDS of people have been rendered homeless in Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State, following a devastating rain storm that hit over 100 houses in some communities in the council.  Property worth millions of naira were also lost in the disaster. The tragedy which occurred last weekend also destroyed the houses […]

LAGOS—The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has detained a 24- year-old American lady, Sharon Denis Thorpe, over her involvement in a counterfeit cheque scam valued at $760, 668. Thorpe, a resident of Raleigh, North Carolina, was arrested in  Lagos on Saturday, 20 February 2010 while about to board a Qatar Airways flight to Washington […]

By Tony Edike ENUGU—THE leader of   the People’ Mandate Party, PMP, Dr Arthur Nwankwo said yesterday,  that the failure of the of the pro-Yar’Adua cabal to disclose the true state of the president’s health had confirmed the rot in the nation’s political system. He called for the immediate swearing in of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as […]

By Emmanuel Aziken ABUJA—The Senate   Committee on Niger Delta yesterday deferred its decision on the Edo State representative on the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to today following the absence of the two senators from the state against the nominee, Mr. Mr. Donald Omorodion. Mr. Omorodion who appeared before a nine-member panel of the committee […]

*As he promises to produce him By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA—The Police   yesterday produced the detained chairman of the Police Equipment Foundation, PEF, Chief Kenny Martins,  before an Abuja high court sitting in Gwagwalada for the purposes of facing trial over allegation of forgery. The trial high court, had ordered the arrest of Kenny Martins and […]

AS Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier- General Maharazu Ismaila Tsiga is bound to protect interests in the NYSC, which at the moment are waning.

Note : This piece contains a gory photograph that could be disturbing to some readers.

An Igbo welder roasted alive , few days ago in Jos . After the so called calm.
The Long buses have been the target of horrific night ambushes in the name of anything for some time now.
These buses according to my sources are suddenly crashed into, in the dead of night on Abuja -Auchi roads, Abuja – Ilorin, Abuja -Ibadan- Lagos, by devilish waiting on the brinks tankers, and those are described as accidents. Unidentified robbers come to the scene after the wounded are taken away and the dead tell no tales. On the terrible Lagos Benin route , the Ondo section from Ore has been deliberately left untouched since Anenih.

Hugo Odiogor, Deputy Political Editor LAGOS—A TWO-day post amnesty dialogue will hold in the oil city of Warri, Delta State from Monday, March 15 to 16, 2010. The event is organized by Vanguard Media Limited in collaboration with the nine governments in the restive Niger Delta region. Acting President Goodluck Jonathan is expected to declare […]

ACTING President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, rose to the challenges ahead of him when he approved the constitutions of a 26-man Presidential Advisory Council on critical areas of development, which is headed by former Minister of Defence, Lt Gen. Theophilus Danjuma and another one on Project Assessment Committee. Not only that, Jonathan also reconstituted the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC monitoring team.

By Emma Ujah ABUJA—MINISTER of Information, Prof. Dora Akunyili, yesterday, fired another salvo, saying that the cabal around President Umaru Yar’Adua should allow him address the nation. She said in an interview with the African Independent Television, AIT, monitored in Abuja, that those hiding the President could not be justified since his health was a […]