Imminent collapse of health services nationwide looms following a threat by doctors under the auspices of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, to withdraw their services from public health institutions as from December 14.

Human rights activist and President of Civil Rights Congress, CRC, Mr. Shehu Sani, yesterday, alleged that it was President Goodluck Jonathan that scuttled an initial effort to constructively engage key members of the Boko Haram Islamist sect with a view to convincing them to end the blood-letting insurgency in the northern part of the country.

A crack team of detectives attached to Edo State Police Command is investigating the murder of one Victor Nsongbunyo, a Deputy Manager attached to Nigeria Petroleum Development Company NPDC, Benin City, who was allegedly murdered by his wife and her pastor boy friend, penultimate Friday.

ILLEGALITIES are gradually creeping into the conduct of the nation’s legislative affairs. It is worse that illegalities are becoming part of Nigeria’s legislative processes.

The Federal Government and the leadership of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, led by its President Dr. Nasir Fagge yesterday, signed Memoradum of Understanding on the restructured 2009. Agreement.

NATIONAL Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur yesterday said that with what he has been going through since he became the chairman of the party, he can unequivocally call himself a militant, just as he declared war with his perceived enemies, saying he will not give up in his fight.

THE Jigawa command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, said it has in its custody, a 23-year-old man (name withheld) who allegedly threatened to kill his father.

A 34-year-old truck driver, Tayo Adebayo,has been arraigned before a Lagos Magistrate Court, sitting in Ikeja for manslaughter

A member of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Boluwade Kehinde, and eight others were, yesterday, docked before an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrate’s Court over alleged involvement in the murder of one Foluso Ogundare in Emure-Ekiti on November 3, 2013.

An electronic dealer at Alaba International Market, Lagos is currently under investigation in connection with unlawful exportation of 450 grammes of methamphetamine to Malaysia.

What do you think informed the decision by the President to set up a committee to plan for a national conference?
It’s a very laudable decision. You see, in this country when you act they criticise you, you don’t act, they criticise you. This is a very harmless, progressive, forward looking decision. We cannot just sit down and want God to come and bring stability to the nation.

The best player at the 2013 Fifa Under-17 World Cup, Kelechi Iheanacho could be the shock inclusion in the Super Eagles squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals in Brazil.

Faults redeployment of Rivers CP BY IKECHUKWU     NNOCHIRI ABUJA—The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday, declared that the House of Representatives acted in breach of Section 11(4) and (5) of the 1999 Constitution, when it assumed the lawmaking functions of Rivers State House of Assembly, on July 10, 2013. Aside declaring the action […]

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has accused President Goodluck Jonathan of driving the country to the precipice and allowing deceit, corruption and mutual distrust to tear at the fabric of the nation.

In my modalities, I have proposed that there should be a number of centers. One in Kaduna, one in Port Hacourt, one in Enugu, one in Ibadan, and one in Benin and another one in New York where the United Nations organsiation operate from. It is going to be the central place where all the information are coming from, all the processes of having a sovereign national conference is coming from.