Following the successful conclusion of the N 37.5 billion first tranche of unsecured bond issue for Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc, the Group Managing Director, United Bank for Africa Plc, Mr. Phillips Oduoza has said that corporate organisations in Africa should expect more of such deals as the bank intends to be a major player in the corporate sector in Africa

FORMER Deputy Premier of the defunct Midwest region, Chief James Otobo, yesterday, lamented the death of elder statesman, Chief Anthony Enahoro, saying, “I will remember him as the greatest parliamentarian I have ever known.”

A member of the Federal House of Representatives, Mr Samson Osagie, has urged his colleagues in the National Assembly to rest the move to make themselves members of the National Executive of their respective parties.

Workers in Bayelsa State Wednesday rejected the state government’s Christmas bonus of N15,000, insisting that they deserved better deal, having forfeited that of 2008 and 2009 in the wake of the down turn in the economy of the state caused by youth militancy.

73-year-old former Commissioner of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Chief Francis Temewei, who was kidnapped in Warri by gunmen, was rescued by policemen from the kidnappers’ den Wednesday.

Early this year when we were invited by the Lagos State House of Assembly to participate in a Public Hearing to discuss the purported First Amendment to the Constitution, I unreservedly castigated the National Assembly for what I was convinced was the unconstitutional procedure adopted.

After months of uncertainty, the Independent National Electoral Commission has hopefully released the last time table and schedule of activities that will be used for the conduct of the 2011 elections.

Not until the crush of civil litigation brought on by the explosion of personal injury cases in the industrial era did judges begin to appreciate the workload relief plea bargaining promised”.

he Pro-National Conference Organization, after profound consultation with progressive stakeholders both home and abroad regrets to confirm the passing to the great beyond of our ever indefatigable leader and mentor, Anthony Eronsele Enahoro, 87 which occurred at the early hours of Wednesday, 15 December 2010 in his country home in Benin City, Edo state capital.

Over the years, the education sector in Adamawa state is one that could best be described as moribund. This is so because this very vital sector of the economy received little or no government attention. It was common sight for pupils and children of school age who were supposed to be in classrooms receiving lessons strolling the streets and idling away. Some even resorted to anti-social vices.

REPRIEVE, Wednesday, came the way of the 27 soldiers who were jailed for mutiny by a court martial as they were formally freed and moved out of prisons.

A Presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar Wednesday warned that if the leadership of the Party and that of the country jettison the already existing zoning arrangement, it would amount to making violence change inevitable.

THE Senate President, David Mark Wednesday described the death Chief Anthony Enahoro, a frontline nationalist and elder statesman as a huge loss to Nigeria and the black race.

President Goodluck Jonathan Wednesday received with great sadness news of the passing away in Benin of one of Nigeria’s foremost nationalists and elder statesmen, Chief Anthony Enahoro.

ANAMBRA State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi, has described the death of one of Nigeria’s foremost nationalists, Chief Anthony Enahoro as a great loss to the nation.