The Bayelsa State House of Assembly committee Chairman on Information, Culture and Tourism, Mr. Kombowei Benson, yesterday, blamed the spate of bomb blasts and insecurity in the state for the lawmakers’ relocation to Government House

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Kwara State Council, has declared that Governor Bukola Saraki’s administration in the last seven years has fulfilled over 21-point labour demands which successive administrations in the State had jettisoned.

A 64 year old retired Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP, (name withheld) has been arrested in connection with last week’s kidnap of a woman and her three children in Warri

As opinions continue to be divided over the propriety of President Goodluck Jonathan running in next year’s general election, a nascent organisation, the Goodluck Grassroot Movement (GGM) has warned politicians to desist from overheating the polity on the matter, which it says is “an unconstitutional contraption”.

There has been a massive outpouring of tributes to the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua since his passing a few weeks ago. So much so that it is now becoming increasingly difficult for me to recognize the man I served for almost three years.

A US federal judge sentenced a Nigerian couple, Friday, for forcing a widowed mother of six to serve in domestic servitude, holding her as a slave for over eight years.

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has denied that it was investigating the son of the Plateau State Governor, Jonah Jang, over an alleged N6billion fraud.

This report traces the intrigues and drama that went into the passage of the bill sacking the amendment of the 1999 Constitution and wonders whether the amendments are far reaching enough.

Carrying placards with various inscriptions such as “where are the killers of Ukeke and Erhejiro”?, Governor Oshiomhole,please help us, we want justice” and Wetin Police dey do?”, Artists, Film Producers and Marketers decked in black attires, yesterday stormed the premises of the Nigeria Union Journalists (NUJ), in Benin to address newsmen on their plan.

A group of protesters has called on the Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole to intervene in the alleged financial misappropriation of the council’s funds by the Chairman of Esan North East Local Government Council, Hon. John Yakubu.

Those who were terribly disgraced and who poured venom against the party are happily welcomed back. PDP is extremely magnanimous. PDP is all inclusive, it is a non-discriminatory political institution. In spite of the blackmail that it is a retrogressive and conservative party, it is the PDP and not another party that mainstreamed gender consideration in its structure by waiving nomination fees for women; it is the PDP that conceived zoning as its inept affirmative action for politically marginalized part of Nigeria.

The Federal Government has procured a total of fifty-nine units of fully equipped security combat patrol boats worth over N15 billion, for the Marine Department of the Nigeria Police Force , with the sole aim of nipping criminal activities on the nation’s waterways , particularly in the Niger Delta region of the country, in the bud.

Disclosing this on Thursday after inspecting the pipe threading yard of Botro Marine & Oil Services in Onne, Rivers State, the Acting Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Monitoring Board, Engr Ernest Nwapa explained that the fund would be deployed specifically for developing the capacity of Nigerian service providers in the oil and gas sector.

“In fact I have been discussing with the Federal Ministry of Works people on the possibility of retrieving some roads from the non-performing contractors and give it to those that are performing and I can tell that we are compiling their dossier. Very soon the Senate works committee will address a press conference to that effect,” Ucha told Vanguard correspondent.

Today, internet has solved the information problem in the sense that you not only access news at it breaks, but can also engage in online chat. In-between the hustle for daily-bread in a foreign land, there remains this serious hunger by the immigrants for hints on what is happening back home. This has, in turn, led to a proliferation of blogs. The trail was blazed years ago by Elendu Reports, followed by Sahara reporters.