Vice-President Namadi Sambo, Monday, led the Federal Government delegation at the 40-day Fidau prayers for the late President, Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua, amid tight security.

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Monday, fixed July 5, for ruling on two separate requests by the Chairman of House Committee on Power, Ndudi Elumelu and his counterpart in the Senate, Nicholas Ugbane, to quash a multiple-fraud charge involving N5.2billion charge preferred against them.

Hard times seem to await the operators of commercial motorcyclists, popularly called Okada in Lagos metropolis, as the state government has concluded plans to enforce all traffic laws and regulations guiding their operation.

HE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has warned , the Action Congress, AC, not to distract President Goodluck Jonathan with comments that he was not serious about electoral reforms.

THE Federal Government, yesterday, said that it required an investment portfolio of N32 trillion for the actualization of dreams and objectives of the Vision 20:2020.

FOLLOWING calls for the application of appropriate sanction on Oba Oluwadare Adesina Adepoju, the dethroned Deji of Akure, who had led a lynch squad to the house of his estranged wife, Bolanle, only to find himself in an unseemly street melee, a roforofo fight in which he was reportedly flung into a gutter, traditional beads and all, by his own ‘subjects’ who came to the rescue of the woman, Segun Mimiko, the Governor of Ondo State, had warned that he would not be stampeded into deposing the Kabiyesi.

CJN warns judges against corruption By Ise-Oluwa ige ABUJA—The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Aloysius Katsina Alu yesterday warned judges nationwide to eschew corruption, saying that “a judge who perverts the course of justice for any consideration is worse than the accused standing trial before him.” The CJN gave this warning yesterday at the opening […]

“I thank God for his mercies but I can’t dwell on that again.

AMIN, a Uganda soldier became President of Uganda for eight years (1971-1979). He came from the Kakwa people of the West Nile area, in the far north of Uganda near the DRC and Sudan borders. For several decades many Kakwas and various other Sudanese peoples (together called “Nubis”) served in the British colonial army.

The Federal Government has been warned against its plan to increase electricity tariff in the country, more so as Nigerians hardly enjoy steady power supply.

ONE thing Nigeria needs to do to actualise its dreams of polio eradication is to sustain and even improve on the current level of vaccination of children in the remaining wild polio virus-endemic areas.

OVER 600 members of the Labour Party, LP, weekend, defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Uromi, Esan North East Local Government Area of Edo State, the ancestral home of the former Chairman of PDP Board of Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih.

FEDERAL government must improve on the nation’s health care system especially to the advantage of people living with sickle cell disorder.

I have always said that if I had a chance of deciding which country to come back to in my next life (?) then that country will have to be Nigeria. I know that God and the Angels, especially the Angels will wonder why I will turn down the US, France, Japan, Australia etc and prefer to go back to a place where nothing seems to work.

Edo State Government has advised religious leaders and traditional rulers to educate intending couples on the need to confirm their genotype, to check the spread of sickle cell anaemia in the state.