IJEBULAND: Inside story of the Awujale succession crisis
For Ijebuland, the wait for a new Awujale has become much more than a traditional succession exercise.
It has evolved into a complex contest involving custom, law, family interests, institutional authority and allegations of political influence.
Ex-militants in Bayelsa warn against move to screen camps
Former militants in Bayelsa State yesterday warned against alleged plan to screen camps, saying the move could trigger fresh crisis and rubbish the post-amnesty programme of the Federal Government.
FG to sack 2,255 steel workers
MINISTER of Steel and Solid Minerals Development, Mrs. Deziani Allison-Madueke, yesterday told the House of Representatives Committee on Steel that at least 50 per cent of the 4,510 workforce of Ajaokuta Steel Complex Limited, ASCL, and the Nigerian Iron Ore Mining Company, NIOMCO, Itakpe, would have to go as government could no longer pay their wages.
PDP NEC storms Benin for unification rally
National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Vincent Ogbulafor, and other members of the National Executive Council (NEC) of the party, would storm Benin City, Edo State, tomorrow for the unification rally of the warring factions of the party in the state.
Senate to give legal backing to ASUU, FG pact
THE Senate is to provide legislative framework to legalise the agreement between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Senator Joy Emodi, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Education has promised.
Uduaghan’s tribunal victory divine – Tebite
THE member representing Ughelli South in Delta State House of Assembly, Taleb Tebite, has described as divine, the tribunal ruling this week upholding the election of Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan as governor of the state.
