2000 priests converge in Onitsha for late Tansi
NO fewer than 2000 Catholic priests from all the Dioceses in Nigeria are to converge at the Basilica of the Most Holy Trinity, Onitsha on June 2nd this year to mark the end of the year of the priests and proclaim the late Nigerian priest, Blessed Iwene Tansi the patron of Nigerian Catholic priests.
2011: PDP set to dump zoning
THERE are indications that the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP ahead of the release of its guidelines for its primaries, is set to dump its zoning arrangement at least to accommodate President Goodluck Jonathan.
2007 Poll: S/Court affirms Senator Bob Effiong’s election
A five-member panel of the Supreme Court yesterday okayed the April 14, 2007 election of Senator Effiong Bob into the National Assembly.
N5.2bn Scam: Elumelu, Ugbane know fate at trial court June 24
Justice Adebukola Banjoko of an Abuja high court sitting in Gudu, yesterday, fixed June 24, to decide the merit of separate applications filed before her by former Senate Committee Chairman on Power, Sen. Nicholas Yahaya Ugbane and his House of Rep. counterpart, Hon. Godwin Ndudi Elumelu, asking her to hands-off their criminal trial.
IGBEKE Vs EMORDI: Constituency asks Senate to wait for court
AS Chief Alphonsus Igbeke gets set to be sworn in next week as the senator representing Anambra North Senatorial zone in place of Senator Joy Emordi who has been representing the zone since 2007, the people of the area are insisting that there is need for the judicial process on the matter to be exhausted before the Senate takes final decision on the issue.
MR. President: It’s what you do
We are already in the critical stage of the election year when people make up their minds to contest or not. It usually is a period of great distraction for those who want to perform, and of course a time for absenteeism by unscrupulous political office holders.
