By Victor Ahiuma-Young LAGOS — HUNDREDS of former staff of Union Bank of Nigeria, UBN Plc, yesterday picketed the Marina corporate headquarters of the bank over alleged non-payment of severance benefits after they were retrenched between 2006 and 2008. Under the umbrella of Aggrieved Retired Senior Staff of Union Bank Plc, the ex-workers who laid […]

THE Ovie of Ozoro Kingdom in Isoko North local government area of Delta State, HRM Anthony Uvietobore Ogbogbo, Ibuka I, has described the Oba of Benin, HRM Omo N’ Oba N’ Edo, Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Erediauwa, as a great custodian of African traditional values and culture.

By Henry Umoru ABUJA — AHEAD of the national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, where a presidential candidate would emerge, it was gathered, yesterday, that to produce a presiden-tial candidate for the party, each of the 774 local government councils would produce a national delegate to the convention through a special local government […]

By Daniel Idonor ABUJA—THERE were strong indications that there are no immediate plans by the Acting President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, to sign into law the 2010 Appropriation Act recently passed by the National Assembly and sent to the presidency for assent. This is because of what officials say are sharp but critical alteration orchestrated by […]

By Emma Nnadozie & Albert Akpor LAGOS — AHEAD of 2011 general election, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Ogbonna Onovo, has deployed all the Deputy Inspectors-General of Police, DIGs, to all the various geo-political zones across the country. Sources from the Force Headquarters Abuja, say the deployment was aimed at acquainting the senior police officers […]

By Kayode Matthew ENUGU—The controversy trailing the two contradicting judgments of the Enugu Court of Appeal on the occupancy of the Anambra North Senatorial seat has deepened with an official of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, denying claims that he certified the results of one of the disputants. Chief Alphonsus Igbeke, the All Nigeria […]

By Kunle Adekoya LAGOS — One of Nigeria’s leading industrialists, Chief Dele Fajemirokun, is set to move into the upstream oil and gas sector of the nation’s economy. The business entrepreneur, who recently celebrated his 60th birthday in Nice, France, disclosed this exclusively in Lagos to newsmen. Fajemirokun, who recently got appointed as a director […]

Three persons suspected of killing an American citizen, Mr. Cyril Amadi, about two weeks ago, have been arrested and are being detained by the Police in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

The Federal Government said yesterday that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, would conduct next year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, online nationwide.

THE Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, weekend, re-affirmed a Rivers State High Court order, which ordered Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited, SPDC, to forfeit land on which its oil tank farm and the biggest oil terminal in Africa, Bonny Terminal, is situated, to the owners, the Bonny people.