A group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has said it will drag the Federal Government before the ECOWAS Court over the recent United Nations Environment Progra-mme, UNEP, findings on the environmental assessment of Ogoniland.

FEDERAL Government has been told to set up a panel of enquiry into last Sunday’s jailbreak at the Port Harcourt prisons, where five inmates reportedly escaped.

Edo State House of Assembly, yesterday, passed a supplementary budget of N21.1billion presented to it by Governor Adams Oshiomhole, with a view to fast tracking developmental projects in the state.

Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer, CSO, to the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, yesterday, at a Lagos High Court recanted his earlier allegation that Yoruba leaders were given money by the Abdulsalami Abubakar administration in order to douse the growing tension then in the South West following the death of Chief M.K.O. Abiola.

WORKERS in Enugu State will commence a three-day warning strike from today (Wednesday) over the refusal of the state government to implement the N18,000 minimum wage.

BY ABDULSALAM MOHAMMED KANO—Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has demanded an apology from the paramount ruler of Nupe Kingdom, Brig Gen Yahaya Abubakar Kosudun over an alleged assault on one of their titled chiefs, Chief Bonaventure Kalu by his “dogaris’’ (aides) along the Abuja–Kaduna federal highway penultimate week. Addressing newsmen yesterday, its Kano State Chairman, Chief Tobias Idika […]

FIFA and CAF technical committee member, Chief Adegboye Onigbinde, has warned Nigerians to desist from the art of underrating any country in football on the premise that there are no minnows in world football.

FORMER Governor of Oyo State, Chief Kolapo Ishola, 77, is dead. He died in the early hours of yesterday.
The ex-governor, who returned from overseas trip recently, was said to have shown signs of discomfort and was being rushed to the University College Hospital, Ibadan when he died.

Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has been urged to dialogue with the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamidi Sanusi over the Islamic banking that is heating the polity.

Mr Deji Sasegbon, SAN, is Chairman/Editor-in-chief of dsc Publishers Limited. A law alumnus of the University of Ife, later Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), he took the silk in 2004, becoming a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN).