PHCN disconnects electricity over N8m debt By Emman Ovuakporie THE National Assembly was yesterday thrown into darkness as Power Holden Company of Nigeria,PHCN disconnected the complex over an alleged N8million electricity debt. A source however revealed that the management was broke, a development that has made the legislative body unable to pay many of its […]

Senator Lee Maeba represented Rivers South-East in the Senate on the banner of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). During his stint in the Senate, he was chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum and one of the strong voices of Ogoniland. Now aspiring to succeed Governor Rotimi Amaechi, Maeba, in this interview, speaks on his vision and mission for Rivers State, his chances and what the state would gain from his administration, if elected.

When the former Governor of Bauchi State for eight years, Chairman, Governing Board of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Alhaji Ahmed Adamu Muazu took over from his predecessor, Ambassador Bamanga Tukur, January 20, 2014 at the 64th National Executive Committee, NEC meeting at Wadata Plaza, PDP National Secretariat to become the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, he had boasted that he would restore the lost glory of the party.

There were shocking revelations at the weekend that an Army Colonel, some junior officers and soldiers who were taking part in the military offensive to reclaim communities taken over by the Boko Haram terrorists in Adamawa State, have been arrested for sabotage.

In this interview, a delegate to the just concluded National Conference, Chief Amina Temitope Ajayi and Chairperson Global Connections for Women Foundation (GC4W), popularly known as Mama Diaspora, speaks on the implications of passing a bill by the House of Representatives for the establishment of a Diaspora Commission for Nigeria and the future of Nigerian women.

Osun State All Progressives Congress (APC) has challenged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state to produce a certified true copy (CTC) of the pronouncement of the Court of Appeal, which sat in Akure, on Friday, that stated that the elections of federal and state legislators, conducted by the state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Rufus Akeju, in 2011, had been nullified.

On the 5th of May 2014, Executive Director and Founder of the Hope for Niger Delta Campaign (HNDC) and Environmental Activist, Comrade Sunny Ofehe and four other Dutch nationals, Erhard Leffers, Jandries Groenendijk, Miss Marianne Vos and Femi Soewu were kidnapped in the creeks of the Niger Delta, Bayelsa state to be precise when they visited the Idodo River community to do a documentary film on a hospital project in the community. One person was shot dead during the kidnap operation.

Fears are growing in the United States about Ebola with about 200 airline cabin cleaners walking off the job in New York and some lawmakers demanding the government ban travelers from the West African countries hit hardest by the virus.

Users of the Amuwo-Ago link road have called on Lagos State governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola to urgently arrest the menace of articulated truck drivers who have turned the road into the latest death trap in the state, by indiscriminately parking on both sides of the road.

When Nnemeka Okorie also known as Patoraking arrived on the music scene nobody gave him a chance .Today the ‘Girlie O’ crooner is fast climbing the ladder to becoming an A-list artiste. In a recent interview on Ghana’s Starr 103, the dancehall artiste shared his grass to grace story.

We have once again just passed through the season when all the insufficiencies of our amenities are paraded for us to throw at the government of the day. For the past decade, or so, it has been the theme song on the occasion of our National Day celebrations as the routine answer in the consideration of how well we have fared as a nation in the preceding years.

Rising filmmaker cum actor, Lawrence Onuzulike, a.k.a Lurrenz, who recently got married to an ex-beauty queen, Patience Yisa, after he parted ways with his former wife few years ago, has narrated how the women around him reacted when he told them that he was getting married again.

The President commissioned the Benin-Ore Expressway a couple of weeks ago. This must be good news to those who ply that road and who must have suffered untold hardship for several years. I don’t ply the road: not any more.

The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke has reacted to the Forbes Magazine Best of Africa Award In leadership conferred on her in New York, United States of America.

Tick-tock. The clock cannot move fast enough for 200 level students of a Nigerian University which Saturday School Life, SSL, visited recently. It is a compulsory General Studies class and this semester’s focus is on Philosophy. As the students’ wander blindly through a lecture on Plato’s allegory of the cave, some scratch their heads wondering: ‘how on earth is this relevant to my life and career?’