A DELEGATION of 41 eminent Nigerians led by a former President of the Senate, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim and his Deputy, Senator Ibrahim Mantu, yesterday, called on President Umaru Yar‘Adua to urgently transmit a letter of his incapacitation to the National Assembly to salvage the nation’s democracy from danger.

Led in evidence by the police prosecutor, Mr. Romanus Inuigbe, Muyideen said: “On the said date, my father told me to follow him to a place in Ikorodu to act a film. When we got there, he said I should kneel down, while he brought out a cloth, tied it on my face.

THERE was pandemonium at Agbarho community in Ughelli North local government area of Delta State, yesterday, when the corpses of two citizens allegedly seized by members of a vigilante team in the area a week earlier, were discovered with their kidneys, private organs and hearts missing.

RELATIVE calm returned to Jos, the Plateau State capital, yesterday, amidst outcry by some citizens of the menace of fake soldiers said to be silently invading homes and shooting innocent people.

A select group of Senators who are lawyers yesterday held a close door meeting with the Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Michael Aoandoakaa with a view to find solution to the controversies generated by the absence of President Umaru Yar’Adua who is currently seeking medical treatment in Saudi Arabia.

By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA—The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, and the Attorney-General of the Federation, Chief Michael Kaase Aondoakaa, SAN, yesterday turned the valedictory court session of the immediate past Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi to a ‘battle ground’. The cause of the disagreement between the two was the alleged failure of […]

A brace by Nigeria and Locomotive Moscow forward, Osaze Odemwinge, helped Nigeria to a deserved 3-0 win over Mozambique and a ticket to the quarter-final of the 27th African Cup of Nations.

By Peter Duru MAKURDI — The Benue State House of Assembly has raised an alarm over large-scale fraud allegedly perpetrated against the government by managers of the government-owned proper-ties spread across the country. Consequently, the House has set up a five-member ad-hoc committee to investigate what it described as a rape of the people by […]

NIGERIANS heaved a big sigh of relief yesterday when the Eagles breathed life into their game and soared into the last eight of the Orange African Cup of Nations in style. With an emphatic 3-0 pounding of Mozambique, the Eagles, vilified for their lack-lustre performance in their previousgames, re-doubled their efforts and put a commanding show that got Nigerians talking about their chances.

Ex-militants in the Niger Delta have accused the Federal Government Presidential Amnesty Imple-mentation Panel of conni-ving with some banks (names withheld) to derail the amnesty programme.

Cross River State government has put a machinery in motion to ensure that it attained the universal coverage target of two nets per house-hold in its malaria control and prevention programme by December, 2010.

ORGANISED Labour in the nations’s construction and wood work industry has condemned the killing of innocent workers by men attached to the Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta and vowed to pull out members from the region should such incidence repeat itself..

It was supposed to be a noble initiative to bring sanity to the state chapter of the Three-wheeler Association (Marwa operators), a branch of the Nigerian Road Transport Workers, NURTW but it ended up in a fracas. And at the end of hostilities property worth thousands of naira had been destroyed and no fewer than 10 persons sustaining varying degrees of injury.

The Ekiti State House of Assembly has set up a panel to probe the source of fetish objects found at the assembly’s premises last week.

Osun State governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola Wednesday began the defence of his 2007 gubernatorial election in the petition filed against him by the Action Congress, AC, governorship candidate, Mr Rauf Aregbesola.