URHOBO youths, under the aegis Urhobo National Youth Council, UNYC, have said that former Vice President, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, and the six Northern governors opposed to President Goodluck Jonathan, would be held responsible if there was a break-up of the country.

SENATE President, David Mark, yesterday, directed security agencies to track down those beating the drums of war towards the 2015 general election, saying such actions were treasonable and should be treated seriously.

SENATOR Bode Olajumoke has said that the death of former governor of Ondo State Olusegun Agagu is a big loss to the PDP political family in the country.

The Nigerian Police Force has dismissed three policemen for killing a pastor’s son in Gwoza, the headquarters of Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State.

What does the storm fomented entirely out of a “born again” king’s tea cup tell us about our rulers, “spiritual” or “temporal?” By a proclamation, the Olu of Warri, Ogiamen Atuwatse II, sought to abrogate the ancestral title of Ogiamen on the ground that it implied worship of a false god, Umalokun the Itsekiri deity of the sea. It was an attempt to rewrite Itsekiri history and folklore according to the Pentateuch. Yet there had been no conflict between the personal beliefs of Itsekiri monarchs and the tenets of their monarchy, as he was promptly informed by his outraged “subjects.”

President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, expressed his frustration in the fight against corruption in the country, over what he described as a retrogressive system through which the society rewards corrupt people, rather than punish them.

It’s been many weeks in speculation that President Goodluck Jonathan intended to effect a change in the roll call of his ministers. During these weeks of speculation every other meeting of the ministers with the President presented the press another opportunity to speculate on which of the ministers would not make it back into the President’s cabinet.

There appears to be no end to the crisis rocking Anambra State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as one of its factional governorship candidate, Tony Nwoye, yesterday, applied for an order of injunction against both his party and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

FRESH indications have emerged that the Nigerian state would stop at nothing to hand in very stiff penalties to vandals of telecom infrastructure as well as to those whose activities bridge the country’s cyber security.

JOSTLING for one of the nine vacant ministerial slots has begun with three leading members of the Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, emerging as the party’s ministerial nominees from Lagos.

Ethiopia’s national team coach Sewnet Bishaw is not fazed despite being drawn against African champions, Nigeria in, the upcoming World Cup qualifying playoffs.

“Gone are the days when teachers believed that their reward is in heaven. They want their reward here and now or they take it by force,” commented Bassey this Monday morning as the commuter bus crawled along with other vehicles in the early morning showers along the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway. “Why should their reward be in heaven when they work on earth? They have been deceived for so long but now, they know better having seen the way politicians spend our money,” replied Abe.

CHAIRMEN of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from Delta South senatorial district have passed a vote of confidence on the state governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan and the state party chairman, Chief Peter Nwaobochi, for their administrative style and development strides across the state.

Rotary Club of Lagos, Palmgrove Estate, in collaboration the Indian Community is offering free eye screening and surgery for over 13,000 Nigerians afflicted with cataract and pterygium as well as distribution of spectacles.

MORE than three years ago in June 2010, the Adams Oshiomhole administration in Edo State somewhat confounded the entire nation when it launched a citizens registration and identity card project. The launch of that initiative was the high point of the Edo Technology Day which held at the Oba Akenzua Cultural Centre in Benin City.