By Emmanuel Aziken Abuja—The report of the 44-man Senate ad-hoc Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution has given a leeway to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to conduct the next round of elections by this December. The report laid before the Senate yesterday by the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike […]

ON Monday, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) operatives planted three car bombs in and around the Delta State Government House compound in Warri…the venue of a post-amnesty dialogue that had been initiated by this newspaper and was being supported by Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, the Delta State Governor.

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has summoned the Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Mr. Tunji Egbetokun to appear before it Friday over allegations of illegal deductions from Local Government funds in the state by the Governor Olugbenga Daniel-led administration.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the South West has thrown its weight behind the dissolution of the Federal Executive Council by the Acting President, Goodluck Jonathan, promising to give him support as he steers the ship of the nation

Mrs. Stella Odimegwu, the wife of former Managing Director of Nigerian Breweries Plc, Dr. Festus Odimegwu, was late afternoon Thursday, released by her abductors.

President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, Thursday, accused the erstwhile Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, of deceiving the Senate on the fragile state of Nigerian banks.

A CHANCE meeting with Coach Shuaibu Amodu last Friday was a good opportunity to know his inner thoughts as he is again denied a place in the country’s World Cup party. He suffered the same fate in 2002.

THE current toast of the ‘democratic’ world is Faure Gnassingbe of Togo who has just secured an expected electoral victory. Various countries, including Nigeria, are sending congratulatory messages even before opposition claims of fraud in the elections are addressed.

Against the backdrop of renewed killings in the Riyom area of Jos and attacks on Dogon Na Hauwa in which 215 persons mostly women and children lost their lives to attacks from Fulani herdsmen, General Officer Commanding, 3 Armoured Division of the Nigerian Army, Major-General Saleh Maina, has said Nigerians criticising him for the mayhem have been unfair to him.

DESPITE the resolution by the House of Representatives for the redeployment of Batch ‘A’ 2010 NYSC members from Plateau, some of the corps members have rejected the redeployment.