NATIONAL League of Veteran Journalists is advocating the setting up of the ‘Special Citizens Protection Unit’ of the police from which wealthy citizens can procure their guards as against the situation whereby policemen are deployed for private purposes thus depleting the personnel required to police the country. Advising the inspector general of police, Ogbonnaya Onovo, […]

LEADERS of Yoruba and Itsekiri have resolved to strengthen the bond and agelong ties between their peoples. The leaders took the decision at a meeting of Afenifere and Itsekiri Leaders of Thought hosted by the Afenifere leader, Chief Reuben Fasoranti, in Akure, Ondo State  capital, last week. According to a statement, the meeting acknowledged Yoruba […]

* Dismiss  Bayelsa arms surrender By Emma Amaize Warri – MOVEMENT for the Emancipation   of the Niger-Delta (MEND)  threatened yesterday to resume attacks on the oil industry at the end of its ceasefire on September 15, accusing government of bribing militants with money instead of deliberating on the real issues involved on the Niger-Delta struggle. […]

By Vincent Ujumadu AS the leadership crisis in the Anambra State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rages, the national leadership of the party has continued to keep its supporters in the state guessing, just as some stakeholders continue to differ on the way forward for the party in the state. When a group […]

MR. Kabiru Adjoto of Action Congress, AC, yesterday, defeated Mr. Anslem Agbabi of PDP in a re-run election into the Edo State House of Assembly for Akoko-Edo constituency.