One person was feared dead while two others were severely injured, yesterday, when a trailer loaded with cement skidded off the road and crashed at a major roundabout on the outskirt of Calabar, Cross River State.

Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies, SSAEAC, yesterday, in Lagos, vowed to confront the Minister of Power, Prof. Barth Nnaji, over alleged plan to sack a large number of Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, workers.

The Progressive Peoples Party, PPA, yesterday, condemned the bomb attack on the United Nations, UN, building in Abuja, noting that the humanitarian work embarked upon by the international bodies ought to have been seen as act of wonderful love to the development of the society as a whole.

kidnappers who abducted a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Elder Tes Sorae, last Sunday, yesterday made contact with the family members, demanding N100 million as ransom.

I had a rare opportunity to interview the highly celebrated political scientist and author, the Chicago-born Professor Francis Fukuyama on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 during his visit to Nigeria as a guest lecturer at a conference organized by Muregi Associates.

The bombing of the United Nations building in Abuja by a suicide attacker (it was clearly a suicide attack) has resurrected the South South People’s Assembly, SSPA, or at least some of its elements.

Governor Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State yesterday solicited support and prayers from traditional and religious leaders in the task of nation-building.

A disclaimer is appropriate at the onset of this piece; I am not the one who said Obasanjo has 49 necks; no! The copyright belongs to Senator Francis Arthur Nzeribe.

Biafran advocate Chief Uwazurike and 280 of his associates spent the Sallah holidays in prison having been detained on their way to the venue of an award ceremony for their champion, Dim Emeka Ojukwu. Their bail application comes up for consideration today. A positive response from the court could lessen the palpable tension in the Southeast.

CROSS River State Resident Electoral Commissioner Mr. Mike Igini, has said that to stem the current spate of bombings in the country to stop, Nigerians must shun ethnic and religious sentiments.