Bakassi: Obong, Efik Kingdom insist on appeal against ICJ judgment
THE Obong of Calabar, Edidem Abasi-Otu and leaders of Efik Kingdom, have called on the Federal Government to appeal against the 2002 judgment of the International Court of Justice, IJC, which ceded Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon.
Anozie completes Nigeria’s gold conquests
Grace Anozie of Nigeria reacts after making a successful lift in the women’s +82.50 kg Powerlifting on Day 7 of the London 2012 Paralympic Games at ExCeL.
Tension over Anambra oil producing status
ENUGU—TENSION is heightening at the border communities of Enugu, Kogi and Anambra states following President Goodluck Jonathan’s declaration of Anambra as the 10th oil producing state.
Bakassi: Rights group decries FG’s silence
A human rights group, Youth and Conflict Resolution Initiative, YCRI, has decried Federal Government’s silence over the agitations for the review of International Court of Justice, ICJ, verdict which ceded some parts of Bakassi Local Government Area of Cross River State to the Republic of Cameroon, describing it as unjust and a political miscalculation.
STATE POLICE: We can’t continue to waste lives – Kaka
Alhaji Sefiu Gbenga Kaka, Deputy Governor of Ogun State during the governorship of Chief Segun Osoba (1999-2003), is Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture. He was elected on the platform of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, as Senator for Ogun East in the April 9, 2011 National Assembly elections. In an encounter with Vanguard in Abuja, recently, he bared his mind on his life and the state of the nation. Excerpts:
Methodist Prelate counsels Amosun
ABEOKUTA—The Prelate of the Methodist Church of Nigeria, His Eminence, Dr. Sunday Ola Makinde, yesterday, told Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, that his second term bid depended on his performance at the grassroots.
