Presidential candidate of the Republican Party of Nigeria (RPN) in the 2007 general election, Chief Sunny Okogwu has criticized the removal of the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Maurice Iwu, saying that Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan did not followed due process in the matter.

THE Initiative for Better Power Supply, IBPS, a non-governmental organization, NGO, has threatened to expose and drag major contractors who have abandoned electricity projects awarded to them to court if they refused to return to site.

According to Onyeweife, the protesters were allegedly sponsored by the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, who is from his place and who sees him as an obstacle to his governorship ambition in 2014, dismissing their action as a joke.

Senator Uche Chukwumerije, weekend in Umuahia, Abia State said that an increase in the workers’ salaries was long overdue. “It is a duty which Nigeria owes to Nigerian workers and to herself,” Chukwumerije, who was the Chairman of the 2010 May Day celebration in Abia State, said.

They say planes can’t fly now because a kind of smokey ash from a vulcanic eruption has covered the sky in Europe making it impossible for pilots to see their way to the airports they want to land.

A former Transport Minister, Chief Ebenezer Babatope and Chief Gabriel Igbinedion, owner of the defunct Okada Airlines, were among passengers who narrowly escaped death, yesterday, as their Aerocontractors’ flight flew into a very bad weather on approach to land at the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos.

Fresh facts emerged, weekend, that organised labour, government and private employers may have agreed on N18,000 per month national minimum wage to save jobs.

A Group, Edo State Elders Consultative Forum, ESECF, has dissociated itself from what it described as Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s rally, called One Man One Vote, which it said was actually intended to usher former military ruler, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, back to the Presidency.

kimi, who spoke exclusively to Vanguard in Benin City, hinted that the national leadership of the party would meet this week to deliberate on the circumstances that led to the boycott of the event by the National Chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande, Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and other AC leaders.

Ebonyi State is called “The Salt of the Nation” for the simple reason that the entire stretch of the state harbours a rich deposit of natural salt under the earth.

THE National Leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said yesterday that no amount of blackmail, intimidation from any group, especially the PDP Reform Forum would make it derail from working in line with the party’s constitution.

No fewer than seven workers were kidnapped, yesterday, at Okerenkoko community in Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State by a suspected militant group.

Catholic cleric, Rev. Father Matthew Hassan Kukah, has said unless there were free and fair elections in the country, where the people’s votes would count, Nigerians cannot claim to be free.

AT a time it was not expected, the Acting President Dr, Goodluck Jonathan peremptorily punctuated Prof. Maurice Iwu’s tenure as Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

AS Nigerians prepare for the 2011 general elections, some serving and former governors have warned that leaving the preparations and conduct of the next election to politicians would be too dangerous for the country.