Cost of kerosene soars
The cost of obtaining kerosene for domestic cooking needs is fast getting out of reach of the common man in some parts of Enugu, the coal city, and environs.
Ondo PDP picks pieces of its shattered hope
The last election in Ondo State promised to be a close, straight fight between the ruling Labour Party, LP, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; a re-enactment of the 2007 duel between Governor Olusegun Agagu and Dr. Segun Mimiko, the incumbent governor.
Monitoring group issues preliminary report on Imo supplementary poll
The Civil Society in a preliminary statement on the supplementary election last night said voting materials in Mbatoli and Ngor Okpala arrived between 11.30 am and 12.00 pm, when accreditation of voters was due to end. It stated that in a number of cases, the materials were incomplete.
16 die, 20 houses burnt in Bauchi’s fresh mayhem
Fresh violence erupted in Bogoro and Tafawa Balewa Local Government Areas of Bauchi State yesterday, barely three weeks after the post-presidential election riots in the state that claimed many lives.
Ex-MEND leader scolds ex-militants
A former leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, and chairman of Gbekebor Federated Community in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, Ebitonmo Alapala, yesterday, lashed out at some former militants, said to have threatened to cripple oil installations in the state should the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, fail to reverse alleged imposition of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan on the people.
NYSC members should no longer be exposed to danger – Yuguda
Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State has said members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, should no longer be exposed to danger.
