EDO State House of Assembly yesterday became the first State legislature to ratify the amended 1999 Constitution. It also agreed with the amendments by the National Assembly to expunge relevant sections of the constitution preventing corrupt politicians from contesting future elections.

COLONALISM was like slavery, one of the most vicious crimes against humanity. But the last 50 years of political independence in a country like ours deepened that tragedy; the colonial masters seemed more humane. The same banditry and misappropriation of our national wealth goes on except that each stage seems a worse pedestal than the previous.

NATIONAL President of Akaikenga, a pan-Igbo socio-cultural Organisation Dr. Sylvanus Ebigwei, has blamed the creation of so many autonomous communities in the South East for the involvement of some traditional rulers in the increasing cases of kidnapping.

Sincerely, this was not what Mrs. Chinyere Okpe, a middle -class resident of Ikeja, the capital of Lagos State, had bargained for when she contracted a recruitment agency to hire a private driver for her. After she succeeded in getting a driver named Joseph Akpan, she got the rudest shock of her life when, the driver disappeared with her brand new Toyota Yaris, three days after. When investigations commenced, it was discovered that many others, including an army colonel, had fallen victims to the driver’s criminal activities.

SCORES of physically challenged persons barricaded the Government House gate as well as the front of the police headquarters in Asaba yesterday in protest against alleged negligence by the state government.

I am only 28 and just had my first child. To my horror, I discovered my boobs have sagged since I gave birth.
My husband has even noticed this and am desperate to get them back in shape. Is there anything I can do or should I consider plastic surgery?

President, Goodluck Jonathan, has revealed his pain over the disgraceful manner the Eagles crashed out of the World Cup. He stopped short of blaming the players for the calamity, which saw the Eagles take an early bow.

The 45th anniversary of the Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, Distinguish Lecture Series provided the platform for Deacon Gamaliel Onosode, Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council and Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, Governor of Delta State, to seek credible election in 2011, to avoid Nigeria becoming a laughing stock in the international community.

Police in Johannesburg have confirmed replica World Cup trophies have been stolen from FIFA’s temporary headquarters.

No fewer than 20 persons are feared dead in a communal clash between the people of Shobbo community in Lamurde Local Government Area of Adamawa State and their Dadiya counterparts of Balanga in Gombe State.

SEQUEL to the face-off between him and his party, the Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State, has resigned his membership of the party, saying the interest of the people who voted for him into power was no longer protected.

The collapse of a section of LASU-Iba road after a down pour, last week, has been blamed on the Lagos State Ministry of Works and Infrastructure and the contractor, Chinese Civil Engineering Construction Company, CCECC.

MINISTER for Information and Communications Professor Dora Nkem Akunyili cannot ask anyone to investigate the non_delivery of equipment the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, ordered for the 2009 FIFA U/17 World Cup, which Nigeria hosted.

IN apparent deference to the intervention by members of the House of Representatives in the rancour from 79 recently retired senior military officers, Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Abdurahman Bello Dambazau, yesterday, said any senior officer retired by Army authorities who felt his rights had been infringed upon was free to go to court to seek justice.

My husband gets a load of kicks from flirting with other women. For the eight years we’ve been married, I’ve watched him chat up women and had countless nights anxiously waiting for him to come home from his night – crawling. Now, after his last affair where his latest girlfriend insulted me to my face in his presence, I’ve decided I can no longer live with him.