Following rumours of possible bomb attack at the nation’s flagship airport, Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, yesterday, passengers and operators were gripped with fear as most of them became suspicious of each other.

ONE of the youth corps members engaged in the ongoing registration exercise in Delta State has drowned in the River Niger.

Amidst calls by some groups in the state for the Special Task Force, STF, which maintaining security in Plateau State to be withdrawn over continued violence and alleged complicity of its members in some of the attacks, Commander of the force, Brigadier General Hassan Umoru, has said that only the Federal Government could determine when they should leave.

BY DANIEL IDONOR ABUJA—THE Federal government yesterday directed all Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs to as a matter of necessity furnish it with their performances for the year, 2010, as government begins assessment of the budget performance for the 2010 fiscal year. The Minister of Information and Communication, Mr. Labaran Maku stated who briefed State […]

An outpouring of disaffection arising from the failure of the majority of the members of the House of Representatives to win re-election tickets is threatening the continued stewardship of Speaker Dimeji Bankole over the House.

Nigerian Bar Asso-ciation, NBA, has called on the Chief Justice of Nigerian, CJN, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, to ensure the amicable resolution of the disagreement among lawyers over the conferment of the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigerian.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has frozen the N800million account of Mrs Phiana Chidi in a new generation bank as it declared a manhunt for another director in the public service for allegedly partaking in the N12 billion yearly diversion of pension funds recently uncovered by the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation OHCSF yesterday.

Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State, was, yesterday, thrown into confusion, following the killing of a 35 year old man in a reprisal attack.

PORT HARCOURT-INDEPENDENT National Electoral Commission, INEC, says it has so far registered about 1.4 million eligible voters in the ongoing voters registration exercise in River State.

As the voters registration exercise is coming to an end with schools re-opening on January 30, 2011, Mr Kenneth Gbagi, Education Minister, State, has advised Vcs, Provosts and Rectors of tertiary institutions to allow their students to go home and register now because there won’t be movement in April during election. He spoke in this interview with Vanguard

Enugu State Police Command, yesterday, warned politicians in the state to desist from acts capable of disrupting the peace of the state.

SUCCOUR may have come the way of some communities in Abia State, following deployment of 468 Direct Data Capturing, DDC, machines by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Mr. Edwin Kwakaeme, Nigerian born Director of Africa in Democracy and Good Governance, sentenced to six months in jail for giving false information to the office of the Gambian President, was released last week and deported back to Nigeria by the Gambian government.

A Magistrate court at Umuhu Okabia, Orsu Local council of Imo State, presided over by Henrieta Egbeji, has reserved ruling for March 15 in the case of withdrawal of suit on alleged forgery of Umuadu Development Union constitution between Imo State Commissioner of Police and Chief Nelson Opara.

FOUR days to the end of the voters’ registration exercise, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, has requested for additional N6.6 billion to cover the period of extension of the exercise being sought. Jega also claimed that 28.5 million out of a target of 70 million Nigerians have so far been registered.