They started out as friends. But in the last couple of months, their relationship is anything but  rosy. If the truth be told, things have fallen apart between Emeka Etiaba and his friend the Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi such that the centre can  no longer hold. But anyone with a political nose […]

WITH barely a year and half to the next general elections, controversy lingers in Ekiti State over the 2007 poll. The dust raised remains thick as a part of the state returns to polling centres tomorrow.

IF information from the designated arms collection centres in the six states of the Niger-Delta, where penitent militants were supposed to turn in their weapons, register, take the oath of renunciation and receive the presidential amnesty is anything to go by, then, the Federal Government has a problem in its hands, despite the official grandstanding to the contrary, as militants are still holding back the arms in their various camps.

….Says Henry Okah and I are enemies Exactly five days ago, the amnesty offered by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, to Niger Delta militants to drop their arms took off. Arms depots have been set up but response has been low. It is not known how many militants will actually surrender their arms at the end […]

Police as your f(r)iend PROLOGUE By Ikedi Isiguzo, Chairman, Editorial Board LITTLE Kaosarat Saliu was radiant in her new hairstyle. Last April 5 was a day to her third birthday – she never made the day. Policemen at a check point at Alapere, Lagos shot her to death. The little girl and her parents, who […]