By Emmanuel Aziken ABUJA—The Senate   Committee on Niger Delta yesterday deferred its decision on the Edo State representative on the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to today following the absence of the two senators from the state against the nominee, Mr. Mr. Donald Omorodion. Mr. Omorodion who appeared before a nine-member panel of the committee […]

*As he promises to produce him By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA—The Police   yesterday produced the detained chairman of the Police Equipment Foundation, PEF, Chief Kenny Martins,  before an Abuja high court sitting in Gwagwalada for the purposes of facing trial over allegation of forgery. The trial high court, had ordered the arrest of Kenny Martins and […]

AS Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier- General Maharazu Ismaila Tsiga is bound to protect interests in the NYSC, which at the moment are waning.

Note : This piece contains a gory photograph that could be disturbing to some readers.

An Igbo welder roasted alive , few days ago in Jos . After the so called calm.
The Long buses have been the target of horrific night ambushes in the name of anything for some time now.
These buses according to my sources are suddenly crashed into, in the dead of night on Abuja -Auchi roads, Abuja – Ilorin, Abuja -Ibadan- Lagos, by devilish waiting on the brinks tankers, and those are described as accidents. Unidentified robbers come to the scene after the wounded are taken away and the dead tell no tales. On the terrible Lagos Benin route , the Ondo section from Ore has been deliberately left untouched since Anenih.

Hugo Odiogor, Deputy Political Editor LAGOS—A TWO-day post amnesty dialogue will hold in the oil city of Warri, Delta State from Monday, March 15 to 16, 2010. The event is organized by Vanguard Media Limited in collaboration with the nine governments in the restive Niger Delta region. Acting President Goodluck Jonathan is expected to declare […]

ACTING President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, rose to the challenges ahead of him when he approved the constitutions of a 26-man Presidential Advisory Council on critical areas of development, which is headed by former Minister of Defence, Lt Gen. Theophilus Danjuma and another one on Project Assessment Committee. Not only that, Jonathan also reconstituted the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC monitoring team.

By Emma Ujah ABUJA—MINISTER of Information, Prof. Dora Akunyili, yesterday, fired another salvo, saying that the cabal around President Umaru Yar’Adua should allow him address the nation. She said in an interview with the African Independent Television, AIT, monitored in Abuja, that those hiding the President could not be justified since his health was a […]

CALLS for the resignation of Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, Chairman of the Board of Securities and Exchange Commission took a new turn, weekend, as the Chairman, Committee for the review of the capital market structure and processes, Adedotun Sulaiman, said such removal will truncate the ongoing market reforms and damage attempts to restore confidence in the capital market.

THERE was pandemonium at the premises of the Edo state House of Assembly Monday, when bomb detective experts at the Edo state Police Command uncovered an explosive device suspected to be a bomb.

By Peter Duru MAKURDI — Special Adviser to Governor Gabriel Suswam on Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr. Sam Ode, has decried the mal-administration and alleged financial recklessness uncovered in some local government councils of the state by the Benue State House of Assembly. While lauding the ongoing probe of the 23 councils by the […]