The bullion van with its police escort jeep, according to sources, was returning to Warri from Benin empty when it ran into the gunmen who opened fire on them.

By Victor Ahiuma-Young  A pan-Igbo socio-cultural group under the aegis of Concerned Igbo Citizens for State Democracy in Nigeria, CICSDN,  has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to appoint an Igbo man to replace former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Maurice Iwu, who is now on pre-retirement leave ahead of the expiration of […]

By Vincent Ujumadu AWKA — THE leadership crisis rocking the electronics market in the commercial town of Onitsha is yet to abate as the former executive of Electronics Dealers Association, EDA, insisted, yesterday, that they would not hand over to a new executive because there were still pending cases in court. Four members of the […]

By Vincent Ujumadu AWKA — ANAMBRA State has been selected as one of the three states in the country for the implementation of the World Bank-supported State Governance and Capacity Building Project II, aimed at supporting states that have shown a clear commitment to reforms. Speaking during the flag- off of the project in Awka, […]

Abuja—The Federal Capital Territory Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed, yesterday threatened to hand over corrupt officials in the administration to the anti-graft agencies. He issued the threat at the inaugural meeting of the new FCT Executive Committee, EXCO. Mohammed charged the officials to shun all forms of corrupt practices and be committed to the service of […]

The Police in Akwa Ibom State have arrested a gang of kidnappers who abducted an 18-month-old baby at Nkwa Ibiono village, Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area, after they rescued the baby in a bush.

…says Yar’Adua/Jonathan ticket still relevant By Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief ABUJA—Indications that President Goodluck Jonathan might contest the 2011 presidential election emerged, yesterday, as elder statesman and founding member of the People’s Domcratic Party, PDP, Prince Emma Anyanwu, has said the Yar’Adua/Jonathan joint ticket remains valid till 2015. He argued in statement that in […]

Abuja—The former Military President, Ibrahim Babangida said yesterday that President Goodluck Jonathan should be given a free hand to choose his deputy. Babangida told the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, that it would not be fair for anybody or group to impose any candidate that might not be the choice of the President. ‘”It will […]

By Ben Agande ABUJA—Former Governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, has said the opposition political parties in the country could support Dr Goodluck Jonathan’s presidency on the condition that he sustains the rule of law principle enunciated by late President, Umaru Yaradua and keep former President, Olusegun Obasanjo away from influencing the policies of […]

By Peter Duru MAKURDI — As the campaigns for the 2011 elections hot up in Benue State, supporters of Chief Barnabas Gemade and incumbent Senator Joseph Akaargerger, the two leading contenders for the Benue North-East senatorial district, were alleged to have attacked each other at the weekend in what would have snowballed into a major […]

WHEN momentous events occur we tend to remember what we were doing when we got the news. The news announcing the passing of President Umaru Yar’Adua came to me in Ibadan via a phone call from my younger brother. It was in the very early hours of Thursday, May 6- some 35 minutes or thereabout into the new day.

THE elections were not primarily for selection of persons for office in the colonial government but for the transfer of ownership of the British colonial estate from the British Government to Nigerian colonial parties organised to contest the elections.

Ooooh good God, what kind of mess is this? Is this the way we are going to continue to suffer in this area because of one lousy road rehabilitation which the contractor has abandoned for months now. Can someone somewhere do something fast before we all run mad,” complained an apparently angry motorist along the Idimu-Egbeda Road which is presently under rehabilitation.

All may not be rosy for shareholders of the United Bank for Africa, UBA, this year, as the bank recorded a dip in its profits during the business year.

IN April this year, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) sent four of its correspondents to film about life in the Lagos slums. The group, led by Will Anderson, believed “everyone thinks of (Lagos) as a noisy, dirty, dangerous city, probably because all we ever hear about it on the news is the corruption, religious violence, and dodgy email scams.”