Attempt to rope-in ailing President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in the N63.5bn contract for Abuja Airport runway was halted yesterday as Spirited efforts by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, and the Bureau for Public Procurement, BPP, to defend the award of the contract for a second runway at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja, failed.

THE Northern Union, NU, said yesterday that the state of insecurity in the country today was no longer acceptable, just as it stressed that with the death of former Kano State governor, Alhaji Abubakar Rimi, death has robbed the north and indeed Nigeria one of its brightest.

By Jimitota Onoyume PORT HARCOURT—A former Alliance for Democracy, AD, governorship candidate in the last general polls in Rivers State, Mr. Adonye Omubo-Pepple, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to rely on what he described as the mystery of the thumbprint in conducting the forth coming election in the country. Adonye, who […]

WARRI—NATIONAL president of the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, Dr. Chris Ekiyor, yesterday, called on the newly sworn in members of the Federal Executive Council to be fair to the Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, by discharging their duties to the country in a just manner. “The era of business as usual is gone and we […]

The Asabe Shehu Yar’Adua Foundation ASYARF, has described as a terrible blow, the sudden death of Second Republic Governor of Kano State, Alhaji Abubakar Rimi on Sunday night. In a statement by its Founder, Dr Hajiya Asabe Yar’Adua in Abuja, the foundation noted that the velvet-voiced and colourful politician made immense support to ASYARF as […]

UMUAHIA— ABIA State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji has been described as a stabilizing factor in the state as well as father of all because of his large heart disposition. The State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, John Nwokocha said in a statement that this was the assessment of the people, based on the fact […]

By Charles Kumolu ABUJA—NATIONAL Chairman of the People Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor has called on the Anambra State Caretaker Committee of the party to constitute  Five-Man Caretaker Committees in each of the Local Government Areas, LGAs,  of the state. He also lamented the disunity in the state chapter of the party, even as […]

By Akpokona Omafuaire Warri—CONTRARY to recent media reports that there is rift among Gbaramatu’s youths in Warri-South West Council Area of Delta State, an opinion leader, Chief Moses Bebenimibo has dismissed such reports and advise youths in the area not to engage in media war but should learn to settle their little differences at home. […]

By   Emma Amaize WARRI—RESIDENTS of Effurun in Delta State, yesterday, carried out a protest against the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, over epileptic power supply to their area by the company. Officials of the PHCN who were busy working at the company’s Airport Road, Warri office, were caught unawares by the electricity consumers whose […]

By Samuel Oyadongha Yenagoa—Bayelsa State governor, Chief Timipre Sylva, yesterday signed into law the state 2010 appropriation bill of N187.557bn recently passed by the House of Assembly. The governor also signed the 2009 Electricity Board bill into law. Speaking at the brief ceremony held in Yenagoa, Chief Sylva assured that the critical areas of the […]