By  Vincent Ujumadu AWKA—THE  present Anambra State House of Assembly has passed 26 bills and adopted 33 resolutions since the inauguration of the House two years ago, the Speaker, Chief Anayo Nnebe has said.

By Wole Mosadomi Minna — The New Speaker of the Niger State House of Assembly, Alhaji Saidu Ndako Idris, has resigned exactly eight days after his election into the office just as another Speaker was immediately elected and sworn-in.

By Anayo Okoli Umuahia—THE wife of Abia state Governor, Mrs. Mercy Orji  has distributed over five thousand bags of fertilizers and improved seed and stem verities to women from the 17 Local Government Areas of the state.

By  Dennis Agbo ABAKALIKI—THE Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has charged manufacturers in Nigeria to strife towards achieving  the ISO 9000 quality  management standard, which it said  provides  model for company’s operation system.

By  Dennis Agbo ABAKALIKI—Ebonyi State University (EBSU) Abakaliki has paraded two young men, who the authority alleged are fake lecturers in the institution, but the young men insisted that they were former students of the university, who only took voluntary students on tutorials.

Co-ordinating chairman of the group, Mr. Dayo Ogunlana, in a solidarity message to Ijaw people, said “ once more, we extend our solidarity to the Ijaw nation and its people who are currently under bombardment from the occupation forces of the Joint Task Force (JTF).

“We fired into the air to disperse the vandals, but this started a stampede which eventually led to the explosion. At least between 25 and 30 persons must have died,” he claimed.

By Abdulwahab Abdulah LAGOS — The State, prosecuting Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former CSO to late Gen. Sani Abacha and three others, yesterday, lost in its bid to prove that the accused persons’ statements were confessional as an Ikeja High Court  rejected the alleged confessional statements of the defendants tendered by the prosecution.

By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA— Factional Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Umeh has written the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Chief Michael Aondoakaa (SAN) over the alleged mischievous roles being played by INEC boss, Prof Maurice Iwu, to destroy the lawful leadership structure of his party in order to weaken […]

On the maternity leave for women in the federal public service, a member of the government delegation to the 98th International Labour Conference holding in Geneva, Mrs. Theresa Braimah, confirmed this while speaking during a session on Gender Equality.