Torrential downpour pulls down house, kills five in Calabar
"Neighbours came out this morning to behold the horrible sight and were helping to remove the bodies from under the rubble. The sight was too much for me I had to leave the place".
NBA kicks over refusal to admit Okedara to bail
By Innocent Anaba THE Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), weekend, condemned the refusal of an Abuja Chief Magistrate to grant bail to a lawyer, Yinka Okedara, counsel to Alhaji Rauf Aregbesola, Action Congress (AC) Osun State governorship candidate in the 2007 general elections, for allegedly forging a document. NBA National Publicity Secretary, Mr Muritala Rasheed, in […]
My decamping was constitutional — Sen. Gogwin
By Taye Obateru JOS—Senator representing Plateau Central District, Major Sati Gogwim (Rtd.) who recently decamped from the Action Congress (AC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has defended his action saying he acted in accordance with the country’s constitution. He told journalists, weekend, that the AC in Plateau State had broken into three factions at […]
MEND bombs another Shell facility, disowns EK Clark
Chief Clark said if some few persons in MEND were opposed to amnesty for selfish reasons against the overall interest of the region, they should not allow their personal interests to becloud the larger interests of the region, saying, “as far as I am concerned, various militant leaders across the Niger-Delta have spoken about their attitude to the amnesty, I do not know where MEND people, who their leaders are and who is behind them.
PTI in Kaduna ‘ll triger North-South crisis, say Gbagi, Okpozo
He said the government, through the Minister of Petroleum, Alhaji Rilwanu Lukman, halted the training of engineers at the PTI, Effurun in Delta State, to kill the economy of the region and now wants to awaken the Northern economy with a PTI in Kaduna, saying it was preposterous for government to think that line of action Olorogun Gbagi said students of a Petroleum Training Institute were supposed to work in oil-related environment and wondered why the PTI in Delta State should not be developed to a world-standard institute by the federal government.
‘Militants’ plan to attack northerners, threat to corporate existence’
By Tina Akannam Dutse — A former military intelligent officer, Alhaji Sagir Mohammed, has described the threat by the Niger Delta militants to attack the north and northerners residing in their region as a threat to the corporate existence of the Nigerian nation, and should not be treated with kid gloves. Mohammed who spoke with […]
