By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA—A Federal high court sitting in Abuja yesterday, refused a request by the pioneer Chairman of EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu to stop, exparte, (hearing him alone) the Inspector-General of Police, Ogbona Onovo, from executing the warrant for his apprehension and production before the Code of Conduct Tribunal scheduled to sit in Abuja, […]

By Emeka Mamah KADUNA — Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Senator Muhammad Adamu Aliero, said that he is neither aspiring to upstage President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in 2011 nor become the Vice-President. He added that those peddling such rumours were out to put a wedge between him and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, […]

… gets 1,000 graduates to replace them By Demola Akinyemi Ilorin — THE Kwara State government has announced that it will retire about 471 senior officers from Grade level 14-16 who have been found to be unsuitable for promotion in the last eight years and replace them with 1,000 fresh graduates in its bid to […]

Youths from KEFFES communities in Southern Ijaw Local Govern-ment Area of Bayelsa State, yesterday, sealed up Yenagoa liaison office of Chevron Nigeria Limited in protest over what they described as a breach of the Global Memorandum of Understanding, G-MoU, entered between them and the oil firm.

THE father of one of the Ijaw workers allegedly shot dead by soldiers at Escravos Gas-To-Liquid (EGTL) project site, Mr. Aken Tonfawei, yesterday, allegedly committed suicide at his hometown, Ogbe-Ijoh, in the Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State.