WHEN their candidate was roundly defeated by Barack Obama on the November 4, 2008 United States Presidential election, at the concession speech of Senator McCain, you could observe a lot of his supporters were bitter, not because their candidate lost the election, but because he lost to a blackman! Most of them were crying ‘how could this happen? How can this black man rule ‘our’ America’? To them America belongs to the white man, period.

EVERY Nigerian policeman, for uncountable reasons, believes he is a victim of the society he serves. A police refrain for years is that each society deserves the police it gets. Nigeria cannot be an exception.

Plateau United midfielder, Olayinka Olaniyi is on danger list after he was hit in the Christmas eve bomb blasts in Jos.
Olaniyi was one of the many commuters trapped in the explosions around the Tina Junction where he resides.

General Superintendent of Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor William Kumuyi, has called on the Federal Government to check the religious crisis that is currently ganing ground in the nation, particularly in Jos the Plateau state capital.

THE Petroleum Equalisation Fund (Management) Board has begun investigations into fictitious bridging claims by some oil marketers, even as it paid in excess of N17.4bn outstanding claims for four year period between 2004 and 2008.

NATIONAL Chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Victor Umeh, declared yesterday that ailing chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees and Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, now being treated at a London hospital, was alive and responding well to treatment.

The Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation has called for an independent panel of inquiry to investigate the authorship of alleged Election Rigging Manual it claimed was prepared by the Jonathan/Sambo Campaign Organisation.

FORMER militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, has approached a Delta State High Court sitting in Warri, seeking to be joined as 7th plaintiff in a case brought against the Delta State Governor and four others by Jeph Kebbi International Limited and others, over the 49,746 hectares of land acquired by the government, along the NPA-Effurun Expressway, Edjeba, for the Warri Industrial Business Park, WIBP.

Mr. Jide Oke is the immediate past Chairman of the Lagos State chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NIQS). In this interview with Jude Njoku, Mr Oke who until recently was the Head of the Property department of Oceanic Bank Plc, speaks on how homelessness can be checked in Nigeria.

LOCAL government’s chairmen in Ogun State have handed over to the most senior career civil servants in their respective councils following the expiration of their tenure.