The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has advised all Nigerians to be vigilant. The First Lady who gave the advice when she visited victims of the August 26 bomb blast the rocked the UN House said though the situation was sympathetic, she was thankful to God that some of the victims hospitalised at the National Hospital and Abuja Clinic were alive and responding to treatment.

MASSIVE flood, resulting from downpour and the overflow of the ocean, have ravaged communities in Ugborodo, Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State.

Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III yesterday condemned last Friday’s bomb explosion at the UN Secretariat in Abuja describing it as an abominable act in Islam, especially in the blessed month of Ramadan.

FORMER President of the Senate, Chief Ken Nnamani, has described the South-East Economic Summit holding Thursday and Friday in Enugu as a veritable platform for leaders of the geo-political zone to interact and chart a new dynamic, political and economic future for the people.

THE Enugu State Government has, in addition to the payment of the minimum wage, also cleared the arrears of its civil servants in the implementation of the N18,000 minimum wage law. The above disclosure was made in a statement signed by Chuks Ugwoke, the state Commissioner for Information.

-Police in Asaba have confirmed that a woman and her two children were, weekend, burnt to death by fire which razed their home in Kwale, Delta State.

Nokia has announced that it was targeting to connect the next one billion people that are yet to be connected to mobile communications.

To achieve that, the company also launched two mobile devices, the Nokia 100 and Nokia 101, which it said were strategically designed to be affordable to enable the new entrants migrate effortlessly onto the growing mobile world.

THE family of Miss Uzoamaka Offor, a 25-year-old nurse working at Chioma Hospital, Nnewi who died mysteriously after work on Tuesday last week has petitioned the Anambra State Commissioner of Police, seeking investigation into circumstances surrounding her death.

Just a week after Governor Jonah Jang led all arms of the state government to a summit to reshape the pattern of governance the old ghost of religious acrimony returned to engulf the state last Monday. Can the resolution from the summit be salvaged?

Kogi State governorship aspirant under the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Jibrin Isa, said yesterday that after 20 years of existence, the state could have been on a better development pedestal than what is presently on ground.

Benue South senatorial candidate of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, at the last April election, General Lawrence Onoja (rtd), yesterday, accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of frustrating his petition against the election of Senate President, Senator David Mark, at the Election Tribunal.

The public slanging match between Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida, two Army Generals that, between them, ruled Nigeria for 20 of its 50 years, summarises the heavy burden of curse under which the country continues to groan.

While assuring on working towards desirable, increasing global competitiveness, wealth and job creation, Minister of Communications and Technology, Mrs Omobola Olubusola Johnson has said that Nigeria should replicate the successes recorded in the telecommunications industry in the IT arena.

The United Nations said yesterday that it plans to scale up the security threat status of its Nigerian personnel and infrastructure from low and medium security threat just as investigators from the America’s Federal Bureau of Investigations, FBI, as well as Nigerian security operatives are making every effort to get close circuit television footage of the attack.

By Emmanuel Aziken I have waited with sorrowful expectation to see how some political rivals of President Goodluck Jonathan would respond to the  insecurity situation in the country that peaked with last weekend’s bombing of the United Nation offices in Abuja. I dare say that I have not been totally disappointed. General Babangida who had […]