Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has urged the Acting President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, to appoint a Nigerian who has a real commitment to the sustenance of the nation’s democracy as the next chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Itsekiri leader, Chief (Mrs.) Rita Lori-Ogbebor, has appealed to elder statesman and Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, not to throw Delta State into another round of ethnic crisis, warning that his recent alarm of threat to his life shouldn’t be another excuse to start fresh bloodletting in Warri and the state in general.

By Vincent Ujumadu AWKA— NO fewer than 21 policemen were killed and seven others injured in Anambra State by suspected armed robbers between January and 3 May  this year, just as 54 persons were kidnapped in the state within the same period, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Philemon Leha, has said. Four robbers killed, […]

Africa’s leading poet, Professor Niyi Osundare, recently criticised the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) led by the chairman of the National Colleges of Education Commission and former Education Minister (State) Dr. Jerry Agada as behaving like a political group.

The whole world stood still for Master Dieko Elebiju recently when he emerged the best in world mathematics competition to rekindle hope in the education sector and to also serve as encouragement to stakeholders in the sector.
As already known, students all over the world especially in Nigeria, are shying away from mathematics.

DID former President Olusegun Obasanjo commit blasphemy when he spoke at the Leon H. Sullivan Dialogue on Nigeria in Washington DC last week? Let us quote him and reflect appropriately: “With all due respect, if Jesus Christ could come to the world and be the Chairman of the INEC, any election he conducted would be disputed”.

A 65-year-old bricklayer (names withheld) was arrested, Wednesday, by the police at Ovwian-Aladja, Delta State, for allegedly killing his 25-year-old wife, Esther.

At last, the chaos that followed in the wake of the National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP) set up by the federal government under the President Olusegun Obasanjo regime is set to come to an end as the turbines for the generation of electric power, have started being evacuated to sites.

For over four months that Lagos State Government set up a Visitation Panel to look into the whole crisis rocking the Lagos State University, LASU, its reports is yet to be submitted. The panel was given six months in the first instance and later extended by two months to give report which elapsed four months ago.

As a way of Access Bank’s fulfilment of one of its social responsibilities to its community and with clearly developed strategy for facilitating societal development and well being, recently donated a refurbished block of class rooms to the pupils and staff of Herbert Macaulay Girls Senior High School, Yaba.

WHEN Daniel Kolawole Olukoya registered at the Saint John Primary School, Akure in 1964, neither the headmaster nor even the young boy had any idea of what the future held for him. Like other pupils, the little Daniel just wanted to start a foundation for his education.

THE Lagos State government has disclosed its plan to assist the informal sector to address the challenges hindering smooth running of the sector especially in the areas of funding and infrastructure.

The Action Congress Governorship Candidate in Osun State and the petitioner in the State Retrial Election Tribunal, Engineer Rauf Aregbesola has described Wednesday’s verdict handed down by the Justice Hamman Barka-led Tribunal in Ekiti State as a further reinforcement of AC’s determination to achieve a truly democratic Nigeria devoid of electoral larceny and filth in all strata.

AHEAD of next year’s election, the Ondo State governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko Wednesday assured that the party primaries of the Labour Party, LP, would be transparent and devoid of any imposition of candidate.

The body of late Senator Sikiru Shitta Bey was yesterday buried at Okesuna Cemetery, Lagos Island , after a prayer was offered for him at the central Mosque, Lagos Island .