THE leadership of the Action Congress, AC, in Edo North Senatorial District of Edo State, has ceded the senatorial seat to Akoko Edo Local Government Area of the state.

Local government chairmen and public officials in Kano Ministry of Local Government have gone into hiding following the arrest of immediate past Commissioner for Local Government and four council bosses in the state by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday

The Federal Government is formulating a legal framework to check loopholes being exploited by child traffickers and other Nigerians into forced labour abroad

THE Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu has said the harmonised draft copy of amendment made to the 1999 Constitution will be handed over to the 36 Speakers of State Houses of Assembly next week.

THE stalemated Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, elections is taking a new dimension as some privileged officials at the CAN Secretariat are allegedly using police and SSS operatives to intimidate state branches of CAN in the North where loyalty is in doubt, to change their leadership on or before the next elections on June 21.

UNTIL June 12, 1993, Nigerian elections were always characterised by massive rigging driven by bloated census figures(politics being a game of number), pre and post-election violence and bad-blooded court cases, with the plaintiffs and defendants trying to outdo one another in bribing the judges of our courts so much so that one of them had to tell Nigerians that his hands were tied.

Fresh evidence have been filed before an Abuja High Court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, against former governor of Taraba State, Rev. Jolly Nyame, over his on-going N180 million fraud case.

There is an uncommon synergy of oneness among all the six African flagbearers in the World Cup. All the teams speak with one voice and wish an African team to go all the way.

Haruna Lukman is the only player that has his place cemented in the line up that will file out against Argentina is Saturday’s World Cup opener Durban, South Africa.

As the World Cup kicks off today, a Miss World team is already in South Africa, as the 33rd team taking part in the fiesta. The team consists of Miss World representatives from the World Cup competing nations.