President Goodluck Jonathan has directed that imported goods henceforth should not be discharged at private jetties or midstream, warning that government will not condone the flouting of the directive.

SEVEN persons, including a mobile police officer, a three-month- old baby, its parents and a family friend, were feared dead in an accident involving four vehicles at a police checkpoint in Awka, Anambra State, Monday night.

The Rivers State Government House Coordinator, Bishop Friday Nwator, has appealed to the Federal Government and states of the Niger Delta to act urgently to halt the gradual return of ex-militants to the creeks.

IT was different strokes, yesterday, in the two chambers of the National Assembly over the approval of Governor Mohammed Namadi Sambo of Kaduna State as Vice President.

Senator Christopher Iyiola Omisore is the Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation in the National Assembly and a governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State. Recently in Osogbo he spoke with newsmen on some national and state matters. Excerpts:

Nigeria is still a country where foreigners, such as Chinese, Indians, Lebanese, people of the Sahara and Sahelian region and even Ghanaians freely come and settle and carry on their economic activities without much regulation. In fact, in some parts of the country, Lebanese and other Arabs are far more welcome and are more at home than Nigerians from other parts of Nigeria.

Femi Feyishayo, a 27-year-old-son of a retired Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), who is currently cooling off at the dreaded cell of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS), Adeniji Adele, Lagos Island, following his alleged involvement in various armed robbery activities, within Ilorin, the Kwara State capital and it environs, has described the fate that befell him as ‘unfortunate’. The young man who was wearing a remorseful look confessed that he took to robbery due to his inability to afford registrations fees for his admission into the Kwara state Polytechnic.

The Federated Correspondents’ Chapel of the Bayelsa State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has petitioned the state Commissioner of Police over the unlawful arrest of Mr. Oyins Egrenbido of Rhythm FM/Silverbird Television by Police from B’ Division, Yenagoa, last Sunday.

THE recent confirmation by the Anambra State House of Assembly and subsequent swearing- in of the chairman and members of the Anambra State Independent Electoral Commission (ANSIEC) by Governor Peter Obi on Monday, May 10, must gladden the hearts of many grass root politicians in the state who have waited since 2002 to be elected into the third–tier of government.

ASSOCIATES of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar in Ogun State led by former Special Adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo on Women Affairs, Mrs. Titilayo Ajanaku Tuesday formally returned to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, saying they only went on sabbatical when they left the party.

THE National leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was last night still locked in a series of meetings in an attempt to get a consensus candidate for the vacant position of National Chairman of the party.

I recently met my boyfriend at a New Year’s party and we’ve been having a very passionate affair. We make love most nights and don’t get out of bed until late at the weekend.

IN my humble view, Nigeria has had only three statesmen at its highest level of governance. These are Zik, Balewa, and OBJ. A statesman is a senior male politician widely respected for integrity and an impartial concern for the common good. If we go beyond the politician, I would add the names of Ernest Shonekan and Abdulsalami Abubakar, who ruled under a military regime.

By Taye Obateru Jos — Elder statesman, Chief Solomon Lar, has said the issue of whether the zoning arrangement adopted by the PDP in 1999 would continue was for the party to decide in line with current realities, saying it was not a permanent arrangement. Speaking with journalists yesterday in the Plateau State capital, he […]

The Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has condemned the killing of journalists in the country, saying it was unacceptable as only a truthful and courageous media could move the nation forward.