A NON denomiatioal Christian group, Christian Leadership Forum (CLF) has commenced a mobilization drive to install a God-fearing leadership in the country come 2011. The group which claimed at the weekend to have started prayer meetings for the purpose of “sanitizing the spiritual environment” affirmed that Nigeria could not develop its political and economic agenda until the leadership was cleansed of its pollution.

WORRIED by the confusion currently trailing the Federal Government’s amnesty package for Niger Delta militants, especially the recent allegation of plans to eliminate repentant freedom fighters in the creeks, Christians in the region have decided to resort to prayers for the resolution of the protracted crisis in the area.

May be, the way to start, is to say right from the day Dr. Mimiko was announced governor, he had made pronouncements, he had taken some actions; and one common trend that has run through all these, is some kind of obsession to run me down. And he has done nothing except to look for a way to run down the administration that I left behind.

By Albert Akpor THERE seemed to be no end in sight to various   tricks employed by drug peddlers to beat the prying eyes of operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in their quest to export hard drugs out of the country. In recent past,  there had been instances of hard drugs being […]

…….what we did was obtaining not robbery, insists suspects By Evelyn Usman The benevolence of a lady to a stranded  young man at Surulere, Lagos has suddenly turned into  a nightmare for her.  In fact, the 33-year-old lady, Jumoke Ajiboye not only survived being strangulated by a hair‘s breath but lost about 500 US dollars, […]

By Emmanuel Majebi The news of the death of Chief  Abdul Ganiyu Oyesola Fawehinmi SAN, came to us like a thief in the afternoon. I was at home resting on Saturday afternoon listening to Channels Television programme “Sunrise”. I was enjoying they comedy of the hot verbal exchanges between Actor Kanayo O. Kanayo and another […]

By Ise-Oluwa Ige About three months ago, the United Kingdom requested the Federal Government for legal assistance in the investigation and prosecution of a London-based broker firm, African Development Fund Incorporation (ADFI), over alleged conspiracy and money-laundering. ADFI, in the letter by UK to the Federal Government, was accused to have criminally conspired with some […]

By Fredrick Okopie The birth of a new baby usually evokes joy in the proud parents who sometimes roll out the drums to  celebrate the happy event, especially if the baby is coming after a long wait by the couple following their wedding. Among some families, the celebration may entail them barricading an entire street, […]

By Awa Kalu It is not unusual when a multi-bench Court sits, for one or two of the Judges (depending on the number sitting) to dissent on a point in issue. By analogy, the Nigerian people have had to watch Chief Gani Fawehinmi, SAN’s performance in the glare of the public for several decades. When […]

By Kayode Matthew The Federal Ministry of Justice and the Police have agreed to an out of court settlement in the suit filed by the owners of a foreign vessel, M T Pentagrum which was said to have been wrongfully detained for two years and subsequently suffered damage as a result of neglect. The vessel’s […]