By Samuel Oyadongha & By Emma Amaize Yenagoa—The rank of militant commanders who have agreed to drop their arms in agreement to President Umaru Yar’Adua’s amnesty has continued to swell in Bayelsa State with Gen Ogunboss, a commander from the Niger Delta Vigilante Force in the upper senate of MEND joining the fray of militants […]

By Festus Ahon UGHELLI—A frontline member of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta State, Chief Peter Eboh, has frowned at the hostilities between the military and armed youths of the Niger Delta and appealed to the military and the youths to sheathe their swords. Eboh, who was fielding questions from newsmen in Ughelli, […]

By George Onah Port Harcourt—No fewer than 86 drug barons and traffickers of cocaine, heroin and Indian hemp in Rivers State have been convicted and sentenced to prison terms while many other suspects of drug-related offences are currently standing trial at the Federal High Court in the state. On the whole, 266 suspects were arrested […]

By Simon Ebegbulem BENIN—THE authorities of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), have expressed their desire to commence Stem Cell transplantation services (anti-aging) in 2011. Meanwhile, the Federal Government has confirmed the appointment of Professor Michael Ibadin as the Chief Medical Director of the Hospital. Professor Ibadin who addressed newsmen weekend, on the anti-aging […]

By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA—The Government of Akwa Ibom state has told an Abuja Federal high court sitting in Maitama that it rejected the political solution arranged by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2006 which made it concede 162 of its oil wells to Rivers and Cross River states because such political arrangement was  bereft of […]