Lafia — The Nasarawa Police Command, Tuesday, arrested the Nasarawa State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Innocent Lagi, for  scaling the fence of the State House of Assembly to serve a court order. Lagi was at the Assembly to serve the officials with a court injunction restraining the House from summoning the  chairman […]

Abeokuta —The Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun will today, present Certificate of Occupancy and other title documents to the first batch of applicants in the on-going Home-Owners’ Charter programme.

BEFUDDLEMENT douses the recent police raid of Soka area of Oyo State on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway where, by police’s account a den of kidnappers was uncovered. The graphic images of the discoveries are causes for concern.

A Niger Delta environmentalist, Mr Alagoa Morris, has called for the granting of operational licences to bush/local refinery operators as well as funding by the Federal Government to enable them establish modular refineries, as it will go a long way to curb crude oil theft in the Niger Delta region.

Governors of the South East geopolitical zone, yesterday, rose from their meeting in Enugu with a resolve to jointly tackle various challenges being faced by people of the zone.

Shareholders of the defunct Intercontinental Bank Plc, yesterday, dragged the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi ,before a Federal High Court in Abuja, accusing him of complicity in an alleged N50billion fraud.

As a matter of fact, it is most unfortunate that Jigawa State is witnessing a complete reversal of the monumental feats my administration put in place. The present governor, despite his socialist ideological stance, had upon assumption of office disposed off some of the public institutions I had put in place.

Villarreal striker, Ikechukwu Uche took the front burner yesterday at the Tom Tom Media Roundtable with Super Eagles coach, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi.

It is 78 days to the FIFA World Cup in Brazil and Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi has said he still does not know who will make his squad.

IF I were a praying man, I would be on my knees every minute of the day for the next three months. And if I could be sure not to expire from the inhuman sacrifice, I would seek to better God-the-Son by fasting for 90 days and nights, hoping that the 492 wise men and women selected to rescue Nigeria from the precipice of self-annihilation would not need a day beyond June 15, 2014 to complete their task.

The National Conference is to resolve the issue of voting procedure today, the conference chairman, Justice Idris Kutigi assured yesterday.

BY GBENGA ARIYIBI ADO EKITI—A member of  House of Representatives, Opeyemi  Bamidele, yesterday emerged the governorship candidate of the Labour Party,  LP,  in the June 21 Ekiti State governorship election. This came as the Director-General of the Kayode Fayemi Campaign Organisation, Bimbo Daramola, said Governor Kayode Fayemi, still remains an aspirant of the party, arguing […]

Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State has suspended indefinitely two commissioners for allegedly flouting government’s directive against double taxation and extortion of money from people of the state.

AHEAD of April 5th primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the Osun state gubernatorial election, former governor of the state, Senator Isiaka Adeleke and former Deputy governor, Senator Iyiola Omisore yesterday were at the national secretariat of the party to submit their nomination and expression of interest forms.

MAJORITY of Nigerian telecom subscribers at the 10th year anniversary of the NCC organised Consumer Parliament, at the weekend, in Lagos, seemed to have agreed with the position of Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC on the N647million penalty it imposed on three operators over poor telecom services.