Onitsha—Mr Iloegbune Okoye, the Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Aguata Branch in Anambra State, has blamed the rising crime wave in the state on the unresolved strike by judiciary workers. Okoye laid the blame on government in Onitsha, yesterday while reiterating the ultimatum given by the NBA to the state government to […]

The revelation last week of  the police arresting a trailer load of alleged unauthorised electoral materials in Okija, Anambra State, less than three weeks to the gubernatorial poll in the state, has continued to attract reactions, with Senator Annie Okonkwo, calling for a proper investigation into the matter. Okonkwo, representing Anambra Central Federal Constituency, wondered  […]

EDO State Commissioner for Finance, Mr. James Osagie Inegbedion, yesterday in Benin informed the State House of Assembly that the local debt profile of the state as at 2009 stood at N18.8billion.

APPARENTLY disturbed by the increasing number of children roaming the streets, hawking petty food items in the northern parts of the country, which has become paramount among the Almajiris/Sangaya Islamic Schools, the Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs. Salamatu Hussaini Suleiman, has appealed to all the 19 northern governors to wake up from their slumber, as the Federal Government alone could not adequately shoulder the responsibility.

When you cut off the head of a snake, the rest of the languid body of the snake will flip and flop, wobble and jolt, convulse and squirm in protest until it no longer has the strength to continue its protest of, perhaps, an unjust act! Such seizure-like state of a beheaded snake is where I see Nigeria today, without a president to direct its daily affairs. For nearly two months now, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has been away from Nigeria, attending to his illness inSaudi Arabia, and throughout this period Nigeria has been without a leader.

THE Benin Forum, an umbrella body of all Bini, led by the Esogban of Benin Kingdom, Chief David Edebiri, and former Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Rowland Owie, have condemned the sudden withdrawal of soldiers in the Joint Task Force (JTF) in Edo State and called on the Federal Government to reconsider the decision in the interest of the people.

NOT less than 1,500 internally displaced persons have taken refuge at the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, regional academy in Jos, following another round of violent crisis that erupted in the Nasarawa Gwom district of Jos, Plateau State capital, weekend.

Stake-holders in the Niger Delta, yesterday, rejected the Federal Government Presi-dential Committee on Amnesty’s work plan for ex-militants in the region, saying a close scrutiny of the document showed that the money allocated to consul-tants was more than the one for the actual beneficiaries.

THE Supreme Court, yesterday, heard that the inability of the Council of State to ratify the draft agreement between the Federal Government and 27 states of the Federation is threatening the out-of-court settlement for the payment of monies totalling about N4.4 trillion deducted by the Federal Government from the Federation Account between 2004 and 2007.

THE Minister of Petroleum Resources, Dr. Rilwanu Lukman, yesterday, announced that government has concluded negotiations with stakeholders in the oil and gas sector over the proposed deregulation of the downstream sector, and was only waiting for the “right time” to launch out.