Hundreds of thousands of sympathisers throng the Emir palace Kano today to pay their last respect to the first civilian Governor of Kano state, Alhaji Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi where the Deputy Chief Imam of Kano Central mosque, Nazeephy Dalhatu led the funeral prayers.

THE former youth leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Delta State, Mr. Jude Onya, has said the peace and security agenda of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan’s administration in the state was still on course, despite attempt by some hoodlums to derail the peace process. Mr Onya, in a reaction to the recent bomb blast in […]

THE Acting President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, has been called upon to urgently address the imbalance in federal appointments as it affects the Isoko nation in Delta State. This was the assertion of Isoko Development Monitoring Group, IDMG, in a statement signed by its National President, Elder Matthew  Ikogho. He said the federal government had continued […]

By Etop Ekanem LAGOS—The Lagos State chapter of Akwa Ibom Peoples Forum, AKPF, has urged Akwa Ibom people to give their support to Governor Godswill Akpabio, saying the only his good works could be fully implemented was to give him a second term in office. The group also called on people of the state to […]

ONE week after the visit of some Muslim clerics to the ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua, Christian leaders, yesterday, visited the Aso Rock to pray with the president.

Before now, it was always hell for regular travellers trying to get out of Lagos from the old Toll-Gate to Berger end of the road due to heavy and chaotic traffic as a result of inadequate road network on that axis.

MO IBRAHIM is one of Africa’s global leaders who has not merely stayed at the sidelines wringing his hands in despair about Africa’s travails. Through his foundation he has set out to provide a platform for encouraging good leaders in and out office.

ACTING President Goodluck Jonathan will, today, perform the inauguration of the Executive Council of the Federation, EXCOF, comprising 38 ministers and other presidential aides including the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF and the Head of Service of the Federation, HOSF, about a month after its dissolution.

NIGERIA is a land of the unimaginable and this is once more manifesting in the utterly reckless campaign by Maurice Iwu, the unlovable chair of our so-called Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and supporters bent on keeping him in office after years of organising what many see as some of the worst heist of the will of the Nigerian people via elections that had been designed to fail right from the moment of conception.

By Austin Ogwuda ASABA—SECRETARY to Delta State Government (SSG), Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, yesterday confirmed his intention to run for Delta North Senatorial seat in the forthcoming elections, saying he had formally bowed to pressures to enter the race. Although there are other unconfirmed aspirants on the queue for the seat, Okowa has become the first […]

By Babatunde Jimoh LAGOS — Director-General of Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation, NTDC, Otunba Olusegun Runsewe, said the corporation would continue to create the enabling environment for the development of the sector through effective regulatory frame work, strategic engagement with stakeholders, aggressive publicity and marketing campaign, logistics including technical support for tourism events and infrastructural development. […]

By Victor Ahiuma-Young UMUAHIA—A leading member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Abia State,  Chief Chime Asonye has joined the race for the governorship seat of the state, with a formal declaration to hold on 10 April 2010, at Old Umuahia ward of PDP. Asonye, a management consultant, according to his  campaign organisation, said […]

Abuja—Governor Ibrahim Shema of Katsina State has said that electoral reforms would accelerate  the growth of the nation’s nascent democracy. Shema, who featured at the Forum of the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Abuja argued that the reforms were also necessary for the development of the country. “My views are that electoral reforms are […]

About two years ago, the USA intelligence watch, opined that within the next fifteen years or so, Nigeria would most likey slide into a failed state.There were cries of indignation from Nigerians all over the world.

Barely two weeks after 15 armed men ambushed a team of five operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, killing one of them and injuring others on Mbano-Okigwe road, Imo State, the home of another operative of the anti-graft agency was on Sunday night attacked by gunmen who shot him severally in the chest.