BY DANIEL IDONOR THE threat by the South-South governors to pull out of the amnesty deal for militants in the Niger Delta, last night, drew response from the Presidency which said President Umaru Yar’Adua has’tremendous respect’ for the people of the area. The six South-South governors, after a meeting in the Delta State capital, Asaba, […]

BY CHIDI NKWOPARA IMO State governor, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, formally left the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) yesterday and pitched his tent with the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The PPA leadership is threatening to drag the decampee to court. Speaking to welcome Ohakim into the PDP family, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua described the governor as […]

By EMMA AMAIZE MOVEMENT for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) says emancipation will come faster than expected for the Niger-Delta if the South-South Governors sustain the tempo of their current agitation against unjust laws and policies against the region. It also says it is erroneous for anyone to say its recent attack on the […]

*Calls for sacrifices THE newly appointed pro-chancellor and     chairman of Governing Council of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, Dr. Erastus Akingbola, has called for more sacrifice on the part of stakeholders to ensure speedy development of the University. This appeal was made after the inauguration of the new governing council in Akure […]

By SIMON EBEGBULEM FORMER Senate chief whip and leader of the Action Congress (AC) in Edo State, Senator Rowland Owie, has hailed the South South governors for pulling out of the Federal Government amnesty programme, saying that the Federal Government had exhibited “unseriousness” in solving the Niger Delta problem by its decision to go ahead […]