AWKA-Anambra State House of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal II, sitting in Awka, was Tuesday told that an assistant secretary of the tribunal (names withheld) allegedly smuggled a document into the case file pending at the tribunal with the alleged connivance of a petitioner.

BENIN-The Court of Appeal sitting in Benin, Monday, upturned the judgment of the Election Petition Tribunal, Asaba, which confirmed Mr. Frank Enekorogha, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate as winner of the election to represent the Burutu Federal Constituency of Delta State.

Union Bank of Nigeria, UBN Plc recapitalization plans have continued to receive support from various stakeholders, as capital market operators, weekend, said the choice of credible core investors has made the Bank a good offering.

UGHELLI-OVER 5,000 Irri women in Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State, Tuesday, stormed the Oleh magistrate court, demanding the release of four of their children, being detained by the Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG, zone 5 for their alleged involvement in the killing and lootings in Irri.

ABUJA-Determined to boost waterways transportation sector of the economy, President Goodluck Jonathan will next month commission Onitsha River Port projects in Anambra State.

MANY times, ignorance would get the better of me. I recall it was this same ignorance that made me say things I ought not. A case in point is a statement I made in my kitchen in Lagos many years ago… ‘There are two places in Nigeria I cannot imagine visiting – Sokoto and Calabar.’

ONITSHA- Equipment worth about N12million have been carted away by unknown vandals at the Entrepreneurship Development Centre, EDC, South-East Zonal Headquarters, Onitsha.

Commercial activities went on as usual last weekend, in Oko-Baba area of Lagos, when all of a sudden, the sound of a gun shot fired by a policeman at the check point changed the course of the day, as a stray bullet hit a butcher who was going about his lawful business, in the chest, killing him on the spot.

A Nigerian new media outlet, the NaijaAgroNet has emerged winner of the 2011 edition of the Highway Africa conference which ended recently in the city of Cape Town, South Africa.

As part of plans to take insurance awareness to the general public, Miss Insurance, Eberechukwu Onuorah has taken her awareness campaign to youths undergoing the one year National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme.

Sokoto – A 35-year -old man, Sa’idu Mato who hails from Dauran village in Zurmi local government Area of Zamfara state, was found lifeless and hung on a tree in the early hours of Wednesday at More in Kware local government of Sokoto state.

The Federal Government of Nigeria has been urged to overhaul the intelligence gathering agencies in the country to unable it nib terror attacks in the bud.

THE Seventh All Nigeria Guild of Editors Conference (ANEC) that ended in Benin-City, Edo State last weekend was truly remarkable. The conference of newspaper and broadcast editors was aptly themed: “Deepening Our Democracy: The Role of the Editor.” The theme was indeed reflective of the editors’ stake in the nation’s democracy project.

Transatlantic Holdings Inc said on Monday it entered into deal talks with an undisclosed bidder, adding a fresh twist in a months-long takeover saga and sending the reinsurer’s shares up sharply.

LAST weekend, the Minister of Communications & Technology, Mrs Omobola Johnson addressed a stakeholders’forum in Lagos. At the event, all the parastatals under her ministry, from NCC and NigComSat to NITDA were present.