Azubuike Ishiekwene, until last Thursday, the executive director (ED) of Punch, says the report of the committee raised by the management of the company to investigate the allegations of fraud levelled against him by the former editor of the newspaper, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, did not indict him. “The committee’s work is done. Its report, and […]

A Peoples Democratic  Party, PDP,  aspirant into the Delta State House Assembly  to represent Ethiope East constituency, Deacon Aghogho Harriman, has cautioned the National Assembly against being in a haste to make Acting President Goodluck Jonathan a substantive president, saying such issue is a fundamental one that requires due process. Speaking to newsmen, Harriman explained […]

EDO State branch of   the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) has directed its members in Esan Central Local Government Council to stay out of their offices for the safety of their lives after alleged assault of one of its members, Mr. Sunday Isidahomen, by a member of the council’s legislative arm. The […]

Some 12 years ago when the then military administration of General Abdulsalami Abubakar decided that Olusegun Obasanjo had served enough in prison in the aftermath of his conviction for the 1995 phantom coup, two men played a critical role in ensuring his emergence as Nigeria’s elected president in 1999: General Ibrahim Babangida, and General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau. The duo were not quite new to the art of installing rulers.

ALHAJI Bibi Dogo, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bauchi State , has advised those scheming to unseat Acting President Goodluck Jonathan to have a re-think as there would be no vacancy in Aso Rock until 2015. Dogo made the declarationl during a press conference in Bauchi on Friday. He appealed to […]