By Ikechukwu Nnochiri Abuja—A prosecution witness with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Kazeem Oseni, yesterday, told an Abuja high court that an Austrian, one Mr. George Eder, who is the Managing Director of Avsatel Communication Ltd, a company that was awarded the safe tower project contract by erstwhile Aviation Minister, Prof. Babalola […]

Chairman of the DHL, Otunba Raheem Ade Komolafe, is dead.  According to a family source, the man died in a private hospital on Tuesday, after an alleged attack on him and some members of his family by a local government official. The family of Chief Komolafe is bent on seeking justice through the process of […]

By Kenneth Ehigiator LAGOS — Aviation workers, under the aegis of Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, ATSSSAN, have drawn a battle line with the concessionaire handling the access gate linking the domestic with the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja, over intimidation to pay toll to access their offices at […]

The PDP has raised more than N395 million at a fund raiser for the Anambra governorship poll.

By  Charles Kumolu AWKA—GOVERNORSHIP Candidate of the Labour Party in Anambra State Dr. Andy Uba has thrown his weight behind the call for the amendment of 1999 constitution, saying that the proposed state police in the constitution would enable him consolidate on the security needs of the state. He also said that he would build […]

Ondo State Government yesterday demolished all illegal structures at the Government Reserved Areas and the road sides in the state capital following the expiration of the three month notice given to the owners of such structures to remove them.

As the test-running of the 9-Year Basic Education curriculum in all the nation’s primary and junior secondary schools continues, the Federal Government has called on state governments and owners of private schools to show seriousness in ensuring a successful implementation of the curriculum.

By Bose Adebayo LAGOS — Thirteen former employees of the Conoil Producing Ltd, Belbob Nig. Ltd. and Continental Oil Ltd. led by Mrs Olayinka Bello, who were sacked by their employers, have entered into an agreement with their employers to settle the matter out of court. The applicants have dragged the organisations before the National […]

The Senate, yesterday, commended Dr. Umar Mutallab, father of the alleged suspect in the Christmas-Day attempted bombing of an American airliner, but rejected recommendations of a national honour for his efforts in reporting his son’s inclinations to Islamic radicalism.

IT is difficult to appreciate the dimensions of national conflicts until the victims include some distant and unintended targets. The attack on the Togolese team to the Nations Cup in Angola again restates the unresolved conflicts in Africa and their implications for the global village. We may mouth the import of globalisation, but we fail grossly to see that what hurts one, affects all.

By Kenneth Ehigiator The Federal Government may have turned down the proposal put forward by Aviation Minister, Mr. Babatunde Omotoba, for it to take over airports being built by some states in the country, as the move conflicts with the FG’s agenda to transform four major airports to international standards. The proposal, it was learnt, […]

Rivers state police command has offered to pay two million naira for information that would lead to the release of the four expatriates abducted Tuesday morning at Owaza, Abia State.

An Ijaw pressure group, Niger Delta Nationalities Forum, has urged Vice President Goodluck Jonathan not to yield to pressure mounted on him to become actiing president.

The report of the eight-man committee set up on the proposed plan of the Federal Government for the re-integration and rehabilitation of repentant militants is to be ratified this Friday by stakeholders in the region.

FORMER Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari and erstwhile Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, yesterday visited the President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, with a request to constitute a panel to persuade President Umaru Yar’Adua to comply with constitutional provisions on handing over to his deputy, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.