NO fewer than six workers of the Lagos State government Bus Rapid Transport (BRT), including two women, who yesterday embarked on strike and protest for improved welfare and conditions of service, were arrested by men of the Lagos State Police Command and taken to unknown destination.

By Vincent Ujumadu Awka – Contractors handling the N36 billion dredging of the River Niger have moved to site in Onitsha, with the people and government of Anambra state expressing  enthusiasm about the project. The people of Anambra state have mean-while, urged President Umaru Yar’Adua to come to Onitsha to inaugurate the project. The Commissioner […]

Traditional rulers in Arondizuogu have been charged to bury their differences and reunite in order to promote and preserve the rich cultural heritage of the people. The President General of Arondizuogu Patriotic Union (APU), Chief Uche Ohia, made the appeal at the weekend, when he received the report of the 2009 Ikeji Arondizuogu Festival from […]

By Dennis Agbo Abakaliki – Many People were, yesterday, stranded at different bus stops and other locations within Abakaliki metropolis as the ban on commercial motorcycle operators by Ebonyi state government took effect. Security agents, mostly policemen were every where in the state capital, enforcing the ban, while a few of the commercial motorcyclists that […]

THE stockbrokers inability to meet their margin obligations has been attributed to low patronage by the investing public to invest in the nation’ s capital market.

SUSPECTED sea pirates yesterday attacked and robbed Itsekiri passengers of a transport boat on their way to Warri at a place, popularly called Pipeline, near Ikpokpo community in Gbaramatu kingdom, Delta state.

THE of Boko Haram sect scare re-vibrated in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital MOnday as four persons alleged to be members of the sect were arrested by the state Police Command.

Jos – Strong indications emerged, weekend that the Prof. Dakum Shown-led executive of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Plateau State might challenge its dissolution in court. This was the outcome of a stakeholders meeting of the party held last Friday to review the “speculated” dissolution of the executive of the party in the state […]

Management of the University of Benin has appointed a new Acting Registrar, who will serve as Secretary to the Governing Council and Senate. She is Chief Rosalyn Anamy Egborge, a Deputy Registrar and Secretary to the College of Medical Sciences.

By Aliyu Dangida Dutse -  Jigawa State Police Command has begun thorough investigation of an ex-Commissioner of Information, Youth, Sports and Culture, Alhaji Umar Abba Kukuma, for his alleged involvement in the ritual killing of two children in Birnin-Kudu Local Government Area of the state which occurred last week. Speaking to newsmen in his office, […]

By Peter Duru MAKURDI — A group under the aegis of Benue Democratic Watch (BDW) has decried the crisis rocking the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in parts of Benue State, describing the situation as unhealthy to the norms and principle of democracy. It condemned in totality the purported withdrawal of the mandate of some seven […]

Owerri – As various communities in Imo celebrate the 2009 ‘Iri Ji’ festival, the state government has said that it would identify with only those celebrating the indigenous variety of yam. Chief Longers Anyanwu, the State Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, disclosed the government’s position in Owerri at the weekend, while  speaking with newsmen. […]

Owerri – At least, 50graduates of tertiary institutions in Imo are benefiting from the N30 million agro micro-credit scheme of the state’s Acharaubo Graduate Youth Farm Project. Chief Longers Anyanwu, Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources in Imo, disclosed this on Sunday in Owerri, in an interview with newmen. He said that beneficiaries would each […]

THE Warri Women Consultative Assembly (WWCA) has called on the Federal Government to conduct full investigation into the attack on an Itsekri passenger-boat and killing of one passenger and injuring of several others, asking what the killing of innocent Itsekiri man has got to do with the Niger Delta struggle.

A Popular Nigerian actor, Chief Pete Edochie has been reportedly kidnapped at Nkpor, a suburb in the commercial town of Onitsha.