UMUAHIA—Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State has directed the immediate removal of the Director of Administration representing the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources on the board of the state’s oil producing areas development commission, ASOPADEC, Mr. Christian Onuoha, for allegedly raping his 11-year-old housemaid to death last week.

Barrister Musa Amadu on Wednesday left office as General Secretary of Nigeria Football Federation.In his letter of resignation dated 18th March, 2015 and addressed to the NFF President, the 53-year old lawyer said his resignation took immediate effect and thanked the President, the Executive Committee and indeed “everyone at the NFF for the singular honour of serving our great country in this position and wish you and the NFF the very best in the years ahead.”

After scaling through Ghana with a comfortable 2-0 win in the semi final, Flying Eagles players have all said they must return to Nigeria with the AYC trophy which has eluded the country for sometime now. Striker Taiwo Awoniyi, Obinna Nwobodo, Musa Abdullahi have said the team have their sights fixed on a seventh AYC triumph in Sunday’s final, agaisnt Senegal who beat Mali 2-1 yesterday.

Twenty men and women’s teams in Edo State are set to begin battle for the top prizes in both categories of the state FA Cup. The final of both events is scheduled for the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin City, on April 6.

First Lady, Dame Patience Goodluck Jonathan yesterday assured the people of Osun State of the federal government’s commitment to the early completion of the on going water project in Ilesa and Ile-Ife if President Jonathan is re-elected.

WARRI—Warri branch of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Delta State, has dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, before a Federal High Court sitting in Warri, seeking an order to guard against any attempt to prevent the commission from employing its voters card reading machines, VCRMs, in the general elections.

LAGOS—The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, and the Open Society Initiative for West Africa, OSIWA, yesterday urged Nigerians to continue to demand accountability from their leaders at all levels of government. The request was made at a public hearing in Lagos on local and community level corruption organized by the two leading civil society organizations.

LAGOS—An Ikeja High court presided by Justice Kazeem Alogba yesterday struck out the perjury suit, brought against new Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro. The court, sequel to an argument canvassed by Obanikoro’s counsel, Mr Gbenga Ojo threw out the Originating Summons by the three plaintiffs, Micheal Babatunde Ogun, Suleiman Olayinka Saheed and Wasiu Adeniyi Odusanya on the grounds that the documentary evidences tendered before the court are not admissible in law.

LAGOS—A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, granted an order of substituted means in the suit seeking to re-open investigations into the murder of a former governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos State, late Funsho Williams. One of the detainees in the murder trial, Bashir Junaid, in the suit is seeking an order of mandamus compelling the Inspector-General of Police to re-open investigations into how the late PDP stalwart was murdered in cold blood.

About a month ago, the three   major political parties contending for elective positions in Cross River State signed an undertaking in the presence of the state Police Commissioner,   Mr Henry Fadairo to be peaceful as they go about their electioneering campaign. By Emmanuel Una The three parties are the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, which is […]