Some are even getting sponsorship from Ghanaian executive producers and marketers. I think we must blame our producers and directors who, in my view, have sold their birthrights to the Ghanaian marketers. Otherwise, there shouldn’t have been any basis for comparison between our actors and the Ghanaians’.

We should play down sentiments that we know can provoke crisis. IBB is not going to join issues with those Bishops but we pray that those Bishops will search their conscience and see whether they are saying the truth…..in this context we are not talking about who is a sinner and who is not but I want you to tell me one Nigerian who is a purist and you will have my respect for life.

We are in partnership with some religious organisations and some tertiary institutions. Our logic is that the older generation who have procreated more than their domestic resources, cannot be changed anymore. But incoming youths or the younger generation should be made to realise the deep implication of their action to themselves and to the entire society.

HUNDREDS of villagers from Opuedebubor, Azama and other Ijaw towns in Gbaramatu kingdom, Warri South-West local government area of Delta State, have fled their communities because of the pollution of the environment as a result of multiple leakages in the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, / Nigeria Gas Company, NGC, pipeline.

THE President General of Irri Federal Union, Isoko South Local Government Area, Delta State, Chief Joshua Uturu and five others were yesterday remanded in Federal prisons, Kwale, by the High Court of Justice sitting at Oleh for their alleged involvement in murder- related charges.

THE Delta Steel Company Limited, DSC, Ovwian/Aladja, Delta State, would soon be one of the world’s leading steel companies, the Joint Managing Director, JMD, Dr. Samuel Nwabuokei, has assured.

 By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA—A five-member panel of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Mahmoud Mohammed, yesterday fixed July 16, 2010 for judgment on the on-going legal battle to  unseat Chief Ikedi Ohakim as the Governor of Imo state. The apex court fixed the date yesterday after taking arguments from counsel to  parties in the case. […]

REGISTRAR of the National Business and Technical Examinations Board, NABTEB, Prof. David Awanbor, yesterday in Benin, disclosed that three persons that cheated in its examinations have been sentenced to prison terms, ranging from three months to nine years.

 By Chris Ochayi ABUJA—The Federal Government yesterday set up a nationwide committee to collate complaints from candidates who have problems with their results in the just concluded examinations conducted by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, National Examination Council, NECO, and West African Examination Council, WAEC. Besides, the Federal Government has issued a four- […]

…accuses FAAN of inefficiency By Ben Agande & Inalegwu Shaibu ABUJA—The Senate yesterday directed its Committee on Aviation to thoroughly investigate the circumstances leading to incessant power outage at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos and recommended appropriate sanction against those found to have been culpable for the prolonged power outage. This followed a […]