By Vincent Ujumadu AWKA—THE Anambra State Police Command has paraded four persons, suspected to be involved in armed robbery, kidnapping and manufacturing of guns. State Police Commissioner, Mr. Philemon Leha, who paraded the suspects before newsmen in Awka, gave their names as Mazwell Umunnakwe and Innocent Arinze from Ozonta in Izzi Local Government Area of […]

By Emma Amaize WARRI— OBOTEBE kingdom, an Ijaw oil- producing clan in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, has threatened to severe relationship with the Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC) for supposedly declining to accord deserved recognition to its communities, as owners of the land it was carrying out oil production. In the words […]

By Peter Okhiria LAGOS – A House of  Representatives member, Peter Linus Umoh, has promised not to relent in his efforts to seek federal presence in his constituency, in spite of  the slow pace of implementation of projects by the Federal Government. Umoh, representing Oron federal constituency in Akwa Ibom State, said that since most […]

By Emma Amaize LAGOS — MILITANT group, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, expressed cautious optimism, yesterday, after a meeting between its leader, Henry Okah and President Umaru Yar’Adua. “It looks like this is the beginning of dialogue MEND has been advocating,” the group’s spokesman, Jomo Gbomo, said in an email statement. […]

By Henry Umoru & Enyim Enyim ABUJA — ONE of the aggrieved Peoples Democratic Party gubernatorial aspirants in Anambra State, Chief Chuma Nwafor, has written to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, asking it to disregard Prof Chukwuma Soludo as the party’s candidate. Nwafor’s letter to INEC came on the heels of efforts by Soludo’s […]