By Samuel Oyadongha Yenagoa – Almost nineteen months after Bayelsa State government promised building a Government Reservation Area (GRA) in Yenagoa, the capital city to ease the acute accommodation problem facing residents, the project is yet to take off. The state Commissioner for Lands and Urban Development, Chief Whisky Ayakeme, had last May, while enumerating […]

By Innocent Anaba & Ifeanyi Okolie LAGOS — SOME of the high profile debtors of  Bank PHB Plc, Equatorial Trust Bank Ltd and Spring Bank Plc, yesterday, met with officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, at an undisclosed location in Lagos.

*Wins at retrial elections tribunal By Austin Ogwuda ASABA – THE five-man retrial elections Tribunal sitting in Asaba, yesterday, dismissed the petition filed by the Democratic Peoples Party’s governorship candidate in the 2007 polls, Chief Great Ogboru, challenging the election of Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan as Governor of Delta State. But in a swift reaction, Great […]

AS doubts pervade the horizon over the Federal Government’s dream of generating about 6,000 Megawatts of electricity by December, a frontline motivational speaker, Pastor Sam Adeyemi, yesterday led over 5,000 members and other Lagos residents to the Lagos State Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja to protest the epileptic power supply in Lagos and other parts of the country.

By Evelyn Usman The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a total of 113 policemen for various offences, ranging from indiscriminate shootings, illegal duty to  corrupt practices. Twenty-nine of the arrested policemen were dismissed from the Force after they were found culpable of the offence during orderly room trial. Some of the dismissed policemen were […]