By Victor Ahiuma-Young & Daniel Emeribe ORGANISED labour in the nation’s Textile and Garment industry, yesterday declared that the ongoing crisis in Jos, the Plateau State, had compounded the recent labelling of Nigeria as a terrorist country by the United States. Under the aegis of the National Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of […]

By Demola Akinyemi Ilorin — Nigeria Inter-Religious Council, NIREC, yesterday challenged  the Federal Government in collaboration with other relevant security agencies to commence without further delay the fishing out of the perpetrators behind the recent violence in Jos, Plateau State to prevent another occurrence in the future and also save the nation. This was contained […]

THE Federal Government, yester-day, said it has no plan to withdraw soldiers from Edo State as claimed by the state governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, saying “there was no reason for anybody to feel aggrieved over the recent action of the central government.”

By  Enyim Enyim ONITSHA—Labour Party, LP,  candidate in Anambra State for the February 6, governorship election, Dr Andy Uba has advised the electorate in the state to cast a protest vote against the Peoples Democratic Party, for the alleged injustice meted out to him by denying him an automatic ticket of the party when he […]

By  Charles Kumolu AWKA—GOVERNORSHIP candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Anambra State Professor Charles Soludo has dismissed allegation by a House of Representatives member, Mr. Mohammed  Ndume, that he (Soludo) was not morally qualified to contest the Anambra governorship election, describing it as lacking in merit. He also told the lawmaker to concentrate […]

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has called for unity among Bayelsans, stressing that with unity of purpose and prayers, the state will achieve its set goals.

By Emeka Nwosu ANAMBRA people in different parts of the South East were challenged with this sole searching question by a seemingly charitable and little known philosopher son of theirs Mr. Peter Gregory Onwubuasi Obi at the inception of his campaign for the governorship of Anambra State in 2003. This question on one his campaign […]

AHEAD tomorrow’s House of Assembly re-run election in Etsako Central local government area of Edo State, former Chief of General Staff, Admiral Mike Akhigbe, yesterday warned the former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih, to stay away from the area or be “disgraced by Etsako people.”

By Omoh Gabriel, Business Editor ABUJA — Hope has been rekindled in the revitalisation of the railways with the Federal Government readiness to draw from the $500 million loans from China to execute the project. The hope was brought alive yesterday when a delegation of Chinse Export Import Bank was received by a Federal Government […]

The Ijaw Monitoring Group, IMG, has condemned an alleged plan by a cabal to rubbish the business empire of the Ibru dynasty. Addressing newsmen in Lagos, yesterday, IMG Co-ordinator, Comrade Joseph Evah, said that the present banks’ reforms being carried out has hidden agenda. He added that the same “cabal is manipulating the Constitution in […]