THE Federal Government, yesterday, declared that the indivisibility and indissolubility of Nigeria would be the only no-go area for the planned National Conference which may be convened before the end of February.

This was disclosed by Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, while briefing newsmen in Abuja on the Federal Government’s endorsement of the recommendations of the Presidential Advisory Committee on National Dialogue which submitted its report few weeks ago.

I carried the drug for $1,000 — Suspect BY Ifeanyi Okolie LAGOS — A 32-year-old cell phone dealer at Computer Village, Lagos has been nabbed with 22.490kg of dried weeds that tested positive for cannabis. The suspect, Okafor Obinna Michael, was arrested while attempting to board an Emirate flight to China at the Murtala Muhammed […]

THE South East zonal coordinatorof National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, Mrs. Mrs. Ossi Gertrude Nma, yesterday disclosed that 70 percent of Nigerians lacked accessibility to quality and affordable healthcare delivery in the country.

The dynamism of politics played itself out in Kano midweek as what was once thought unimaginable happened in the conservative city to the utter consternation of the state’s political stakeholders. That was when the flag of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP was flown over the home of the two term former governor of the state, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau in, Bompai GRA, Kano.

The Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company (KEDC) said the consumers owed the company N41.5 billion electricity bills. The KEDC Managing Director, Malam Mohammed Idris, said that N40 billion was owed by the consumers in 2013, while N1.5 billion had accrued as debts from Jan. 1 to date.

MINNA — The Head of the Science Department at the Niger State Polytechnic, Alhaji Abdulrashid Abdullahi, was yesterday, killed by three gunmen on the Zungeru-Tegina highway. According to reports, Abdullahi was killed while on an official trip to Kaduna. According to Abdullahi’s driver, Malam Hussaini Babangida, the gunmen stopped them at an abandoned check-point after the […]

They are jokers, fraudulent — Scribe BY DAUD OLATUNJI ABEOKUTA—The national leadership of the Labour Party, LP,  yesterday, suspended  the party’s secretary in Ogun State, Sunday  Ogini, over alleged anti-party activities. The party also  threatened to hand him over to security agencies for prosecution if he doesn’t  desist from such activities. In a letter, by […]

Not many in position of authorities really know the implication of holding position of authority.

LAGOS — A sacked employee, Philip Ezuwe, who allegedly stabbed a security officer at his former workplace, was yesterday charged before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrate’s Court, Lagos. Twenty-eight-year-old Ezuwe, who resides at 23, Asubiejo St., Alaba, Lagos, is facing a two-count charge of assault and unlawful damage. The prosecutor, Cpl. Cyriacus Osuji, told the […]

The national chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance, Chief Maxi Okwu, who two weeks ago bounced back as chairman, courtesy of a Federal High Court, Abuja, judgement, yesterday, appealed to Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State and chairman, Board of Trustees of the party, to quickly resolve the recent leadership crisis in the party.