Two alleged separate and massive oil spills are threatening several communities in Delta and Bayelsa States. Although crude oil spills have been a recurring decimal in the blighted oil and gas rich Niger Delta, the spill of December 20, 2011 from the Bonga oil field, off the western Atlantic coast close to Ekeremor local government area of Bayelsa State, has been described as the worst in more than a decade.

Research has shown that women constitute about one-half of Nigeria’s total population of 158 million. However, a good number of them find it difficult to get to the top due to various challenges. Mrs. Amina Oyagbola (nee Attah, ) has discovered the growing need to assist some of these women and give them the right focus in life.

Yul Edochie is not just a young and handsome man, but one with many talents, he has done many movies in the little time he has had in the industry and today, it could be said that he is one of the highest paid male actors in the industry.

We have to do something decisively about the Boko Haram . We have decided that (have we not?). The Boko Haram group of lawless people who have decided to bring mayhem to the nation. There is nothing Islamic about them, it seems to me that they are political at best and vaguely sectarian.

IT’S ten years since the late civilian governor of Ondo State, Chief Adebayo Adefarati, inaugurated the intervention agency – Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, OSOPADEC – to alleviate poverty in the oil-rich communities of the state. From all indications, the agency has brought succour to the hitherto neglected communities.

As stocks are taken on 2011, the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, is one man who would certainly look back at the year with an understandable sense of fulfilment for acclaimed milestones and a political year well spent.

TODAY is New Year Day, when people all over the world are celebrating it. I know before now, you have taken stock and resolved to obey God, appreciate and praise Him with your whole heart all year long. I wish you a prosperous New Year!

Abuja—All Nigerian Peoples Party, ANPP, and Labour Party, LP, have threatened to drag the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to the court should it go ahead to conduct elections in the five states which governors were sacked by a Supreme Court decision last weekend.

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri  ABUJA—An Abuja high court sitting in Maitama, yesterday, summoned two principal witnesses, Mr. Yakubu Philips and Mr. Ibrahim Garba, to appear before it on 1 June  2010, to explain their separate claims that the 1st accused person, DCP Ibrahim Danjuma, single-handedly shot all the Apo-six victims in 2005.  The duo, listed in […]

A third-year student of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nigeria Nsukka, UNN, Mr. Onyebuchi Okonkwo, 23, yesterday, reportedly hanged himself, leaving a suicide note which read “The controversy is over.”