Two suspected leaders of a notorious gang that specializes in sending messages to innocent members of the public with threats to kidnap them if they failed to pay ransome have been arrested by the Police in Enugu State.

The Obafemi Awolowo Foundation, OAF, has commended President Goodluck Jonathan over his decision to organise a national dialogue, stating however, that there should be no ‘no-go’ areas in the course of this national discourse.

Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs Omobola Johnson, yesterday dropped the hint that government may not give out spectrum for free to operators interested in broadband roll out.

For Nigeria top reap the full benefits of telecommunications in the digital economy, issues relating to quality of GSM services, customers care must be given priority attention, participants at the just concluded NigeriaCom conference and exhibition have said.

Authorities of Edo State Board of Internal Revenue, IRS, are investigating some staff of the board, alleged to be involved in fraudulent activities to the tune of over N70 million in their motor licensing office located on Airport Road, Benin City.

As the November 16 governorship elections in Anambra State draws nearer, the stakeholders in the electoral process have agreed to relocate all polling units from shrines, thick forests and homes of prominent politicians in the state.

Nosa Igiebor has declared that he and his teammates are ready to plunder Ethiopia when they clash with Nigeria in the first-leg of the World Cup qualifying play-off at Addis Ababa this weekend.

There is now uneasy calm within the leadership of the Ex-Biafran War Veteran Welfare Association following the alleged plot to hijack the association by a group of persons.

GOVERNOR of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has urged the country’s security agencies to work together to check the security challenges confronting the country.

Let nobody ever say that President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is not a listening leader. Never say that. From the early days when he assumed the presidency to the present, President Jonathan has been the epitome of democracy, feeling the pulse of the people and dancing the waltz to their tempo. He did this when he changed his mind about withdrawing Nigeria from international soccer tournaments after the 2010 fiasco in South Africa after Nigerians besieged his facebook page to plead with him to temper justice with mercy. Again he did this when he acceded to the cries of those most affected by the Boko Haram insurgency when he agreed to consider dialoguing with Boko Haram and set up the Tanimu Turaki led Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Resolution of Security Challenges in the North.

SECOND Republic Senator and renowned accountant, Chief David Dafinone, has mounted the soap box in Sapele, Delta State, to campaign for his second son, Chief Ede Dafinone, who is the Democratic Party, DPP, flag bearer for the October 12 senatorial bye election in Delta Central.

UNTIL he decamped from the Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, last year, Chief Julius Ogboru, the Ekugbere of Abraka Kingdom and elder brother of Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru, DPP governorship candidate in the last election, was popularly known as the ‘Field Marshal’ of the Ogboru Campaign Organization.

Officials of Lagos State Environment and Special Offences Enforcement Unit have confiscated dozens of rams on display for sale in a prohibited area of the state.

Ray Morphy is the president, South East-South South Professional Group and publisher of the now rested Summit Newspapers. He has also been a ringside spectator in many of the political developments from 1999 till date. In this interview, he shares his thoughts on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) crisis and controversies over whether or not President Goodluck Jonathan should seek re-election in 2015.

The President of Cameroon Paul Biya has persuaded Samuel Eto’o to reconsider retiring from international football.