ABOUT 3,400 retired staff of the University of Ibadan, UI, have threatened to disrupt this year’s convocation of the institution in November if the Federal

Emir of Bauchi, Alhaji Rilwanu Adamu, has urged aspirants to exercise decorum in their campaign activities by observing the rules of the game.

FOR the fourth time in three years, electoral tribunals have ousted governors after lengthy judicial processes that have exposed the ineffectiveness of electoral tribunals in granting justice timely.

AS historical time goes a hundred years is just like an evening past, but for us mere mortals it is indeed a “century” … a long time few men and women ever get a live through.

PARENTS and guardians in Rivers State, must show their voters card before their children and wards can be admitted into public schools, Governor Chibuike Amaechi, has said.

THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, has declared that the state is broke, alleging that the move by the state government to source N30billion bond from the capital market was another attempt to mortgage the future of the people of the state.

THERE were indications, yesterday, that the rejection of amendments to the Electoral Act, 2010 by the National Assembly might have been fuelled by two Presidential aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

GOVERNOR Gbenga Daniel has expressed confidence in getting majority support in South West for President Goodluck Jonathan/Sambo re-election bid in 2011. Daniel, who is leading other prominent Nigerians such as, Africa’s multi-millionaire, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Zenon Oil boss, Chief Femi Otedola in the campaign will today meet with the leadership of Yoruba Youth Congress, YYC, […]

The Lagos State government is set to demolish 9 buildings on Lagos Island considered to be weak, in a pro-active move to stem the spate of building collapse in the state.

As Cecilia Ibru goes to prison for bank fraud as a result of her plea bargain, the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) prosecutors have shown that they can score victory in the prosecution of those who basically loot financial institutions. It provides an initial victory for the Lamido Sanusi led Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), who had waged a relentless battle on the financial institutions’ managers overbearing conducts.

CHAIRMAN House Committee on Petroleum in the downstream sector, Mr Clever Ikisikpo has ruled out the possibility of a new regime of fuel scarcity in the country, saying the cartel within the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC that specialized in the creation of artificial scarcity had been put out of business.

IT is not my usual wont to write tributes on this page. Today, I make an exception as I dedicate this space to one of Nigeria’s most unusual personalities, the retired Commodore Okoh Ebitu Ukiwe.

BOARD of Directors of Skye Bank Plc, has appointed Mrs. Moronkeji Onasanya, as the new Chairman of the bank following the retirement of the erstwhile chairman, Alhaji Musiliu Smith.

THE final draws for the on-going Craft Technologies Limited, 50th Independence Anniversary’s “Jubilee Jubilation Scratch and Win Bonanza”, will hold on December 31.

The upward trend on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) continued last week as profit taking by investors boost investment value by N319.86 billion.