By Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI— Over five thousand loyalists of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) stormed Owerri, Imo state capital, in solidarity to this year’s Igbo Day celebration organised by Ohaneze Ndigbo. Members of the group, who wore and displayed Biafran insignia, including the Biafran flag, were led by […]

By Laja Thomas A group, Anambra Democratic Initiative (ADI), has condemned the handing over of INEC nomination forms for the February 6, 2010 Anambra Governorship election to the Chekwas Okorie’s faction of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), regardless of subsisting  court judgment, which upheld Okorie’s expulsion from the party. In a statement by the […]

By Henry Umoru ABUJA — MINISTER of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), Senator Muhammad Adamu Aliero said yesterday that the administration has concluded arrangements to build 5,000 houses in its Mass Housing Programme before 2011. Speaking in Abuja yesterday when he received the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Federal Housing Authority (FHA), Architect Terver Gemade, […]

MEMBERS of Delta State House of Assembly Tuesday confirmed the list of twelve commissioner nominees sent to it by Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan last week.

Former Nigeria goalkeeper Best Ogedegbe tragically passed away on Monday night after being in a coma for a week following an eye operation at the University College Hospital, Ibadan. “It is very sad but Ogedegbe is no longer with us. I visited him yesterday (Monday), but his wife informed me of his death this morning,” […]

By Tony Edike ENUGU—THE National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP), yesterday flagged off its In Care of the People (COPE) programme in Enugu state, with the disbursement of N84,000 to each of the 700 households selected from 10 local government areas in the state to benefit from the first phase of the project. National Coordinator of […]

ABUJA —  A five-day mission awareness programme organised by the Hospital Chapel, National Hospital, Abuja begins tomorrow. The mission awareness programme with the theme “Revive us O Lord” is drawing missionaries from within and outside the country and holds at 4.30 p.m. daily from Wednesday to Friday with the programme for Saturday and Sunday commencing […]

By Peter Duru MAKURDI — The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) in Makurdi has shut down 16 illegal filling stations in parts of Benue State just as a Makurdi court has summarily convicted three persons caught operating illegal filling stations. Briefing newsmen on the successes recorded in a renewed clampdown on operators of illegal filling […]

By Victor Ahiuma-Young LAGOS — COURTEVILLE Investment Plc, owners of the automated vehicle licensing and registration solution, AutoReg, and E-business provider in Nigeria, has said it would launch its operations in Niger and Kebbi states on Friday, October 2, bringing their operations to eight states across the country. Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of […]

By Tony Edike ENUGU—THE Board of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) says plans have reached advanced stage to upgrade the Corporation’s Training School to a degree awarding institution in order to provide opportunities for professional broadcasters in the country to improve their knowledge. Chairman of the Board, Chief Boyelayefa Debekeme, who disclosed this […]

By Charles Kumolu LEADERS of Ethnic Communities Resident in Kano (LECRK), have petitioned Senate President,  Senator David Mark to prevail on the Kano State governor to stop the agency it set up to implement Sharia, under the name Hisbah from enforcing Sharia law on non-Muslims resident in the state. The group argued  that it is […]

OWERRI—The Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO), Prof Celestine Onwuliri, says the institution’s management is not responsible for the shortfall in the payment of the monetization arrears of its workers. Prof Onwuliri, who disclosed this while fielding questions from journalists, also lamented that the issue was capable of compounding the current […]

By Peter Duru KADUNA — The Kaduna State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has condemned what it described as incessant kidnapping of people in the country. The NLC said kidnapping which was a South-South phenomenon had now enveloped the whole country, warning that it was a matter for sober reflection by the government. […]

By AbdulSalam Muhammad KANO — The police authority in Kano has debunked media reports of regroupings of outlawed Boko Haram religious sect in Kano, saying they have been sent away from the state. The Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Mamman Chafe told Vanguard in a chat that the command had, in the wake of the last […]

Special Adviser to Bayelsa State governor on Security, Richard Kpodoh, has said that the administration of Timipre Sylva would not be distracted by the antics of cynics who do not see anything good in its efforts at developing the state.