By Emma Arubi WARRI — GOVERNOR Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has challenged an Itsekiri group to show evidence of payment of post-amnesty packages to some notable Itsekiri youth leaders. Some Itsekiri youths had earlier this week addressed the press, alleging that some of their leaders negotiated and diverted to themselves post-amnesty packages meant for […]

By Evelyn Usman LAGOS — Police authorities in Lagos have revealed that they were closing in on killers of a business woman who was shot dead seven months by unknown gun men at the premises of Sacred Heart Cathedral Church, Apapa Lagos. This development, according to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Marvel Akpoyibo, […]

By Gbenga Olarinoye Osogbo—The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidates in the Wednesday re-run elections in Osun State have been declared winners by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Former chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Iyiola Omisore, was declared winner for the Ife/Ijesha senatorial district while Adeoye Adelakun, also emerged victorious in the Osogbo constituency […]

In what could be described as a bizarre Christmas shocker, the family of the deputy governor of Imo State, Mrs. Ada Okwuonu are mourning the killing of one of the Police Orderlies attached to the deputy governor following a misunderstanding between the orderly and another Police escort in the deputy governors’ security team.

By Gbenga Olarinoye OSOGBO—The authorities of the Fountain University, Osogbo have given scholarship to 38 students of the institution for the 2008/2009 academic session. The Vice Chancellor of the university, Professor Hussein Oyelola Bukoye who disclosed this during the third matriculation ceremony at the main campus of the institution said 17 of the students were […]