Alhaji Garba Umar, the Acting Governor of Taraba, has reaffirmed his complete loyalty to ailing Gov. Danbaba Suntai.

Igbo National council, INC, and South East Coalition of Civil Society Organisations, have kicked against the amendment of Section 299 of the constitution which seeks to create the office of a mayor and deputy mayor for the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, and increase the number of states in the North Central zone to seven.

In a bid to checkmate the renewed wave of kidnapping in Aba, the commercial city of Abia State, the police in the state have arrested twenty persons, while over 500 motorcycles were seized for
contravening the ban on motor cycle operation in some parts of the state.

There was commotion in Bauchi State, yesterday, when gunmen launched an attack on a filling station near Federal Low-Cost Housing Estate in Bauchi metropolis, killing a member of a vigilante group and injuring three policemen.

THERE are indications that Customs agents in Lagos ports may down tools tp protest the irregular Customs tariffs classification on cargoes which operators said they received from the Headquarters of the Nigeria Customs Service, (NCS) in Abuja.

A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, has fixed October 10, 2013, for the hearing of its ruling on the preliminary objection filed by the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, challenging the court’s jurisdiction to entertain a suit filed by a faction of the party.

THE list of candidates for the November 16 governorship election published by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is causing tension in Anambra State with Chief Tony Nwoye whose name was dropped for that of Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu appealing to his supporters to remain calm, assuring that the issue would soon be sorted out.

Six oil thieves have been arrested by Nigerian Navy in the Niger Delta region.

President Goodluck Jonathan should have realised that because he wears this big crown, there are many people out there wanting to do things his way, particularly because our society remains largely one of monkey see, monkey do.

A combined team of Army and Department of State Services, DSS, operatives, in a coded military operation, seized, in the early hours of yesterday, the most wanted kidnapper/armed robbery kingpin in Delta State, Kelvin Oniarah, and five of his gang members, in an undisclosed hotel in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State.

As the face-off between the Presidency and the leadership of the House of Representatives deepens following last week’s visit by leaders of the breakaway faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the House, members have been thrown into confusion over the next line of action by the Presidency.

In a renewed bid to purge the judiciary of corruption, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mariam Aloma Mukhtar, has directed the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee, LPDC, to hand stiffer sanction to any legal practitioner found culpable in any act of judicial impropriety.

Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River State is one of the few privilleged Nigerians who have held prominent positions of responsibilities in the country.A one time senator and a formal minister, he is also a lawyer by profession.In this Interview, he spoke on some national issues such as calls for state police,independence of the judiciary, constitution ammendment, Taraba political debacle, as well as the legacy he is leaving behind in the State.

On Friday, September 20, 2013, I was just rounding off my Monday page when a friend from Silverbird media group called me and disclosed that security operatives were engaged with Boko Haram members in a shootout at ApoVillage, near the Legislators Quarters, Abuja.

Elder statesman and Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has called on the Federal Government to implement the 18 per cent derivation formula agreed upon by over 400 delegates at the 2005 National Political Reforms Conference.