By EMMAN OVUAKPORIE The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) dismissed yesterday reports that  some electoral materials meant for the February 6  governorship election in Anambra State were  hijacked. Rather, the commission said a truck belonging to INEC  conveying collapsible polling cubicles from its headquarters to the Port Harcourt zonal store collided with a pay- loader […]

THE US House of  Representatives’ homeland security committee said Friday that some of its staff will travel to London and Amsterdam this week as part of a probe into the foiled Christmas bomb plot. The group will meet with officials from airports and US embassies to discuss “intelligence, border security, and aviation security matters,” the […]

It wasn’t long after Tuesday’s earthquake leveled nearly all of the houses next to Claude Surena’s that neighbors started showing up at his doorstep. For years, the 59-year old pediatrician had treated the sick at his two-story hillside home near the center of the Haitian capital. Suddenly, he was running a triage center, treating more […]

By OMOH GABRIEL The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, a body of prominent businessmen in Nigeria has raised alarm over the state of affairs in the country describing it as an unsettling governance disorder where no one is clearly in charge. This the body says has resulted in business fragile confidence being eroded. The […]

By VINCENT UJUMADU Awka – GOVERNORSHIP candidate of Action Congress (AC) in the February 6 election in Anambra State, Dr. Chris Ngige, and members of the Onitsha Main Market Association of Traders Union (OMMATA) have reached an agreement on how to improve the fortunes of the business community in the state if he wins the […]