Rivers State House of Assembly yesterday cleared six commissioner nominees.
Four of them were members of the state executive council that was dissolved by Governor Rotimi Amaechi recently.

By Anayo Okoli Umuahia—THE Abia State Local Government Elections Appeal Panel sitting in Umuahia, yesterday upheld the appeal of the Chairman of Aba South Local Government Area, Chief Okezie Erondu over the nullification of his election by the State Election Tribunal. The tribunal had nullified Chief Erondu’s election, following the petition filed by Action Congress […]

By Henry Umoru ABUJA— THE Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), Senator Muhammad Adamu Aliero yesterday threatened, Dantata and Sawoe, the construction firm handling the expansion of Kubwa and Airport roads of the nation’s Capital city with revocation of contract over what he described as slow pace of work. Aliero who attributed the […]

By Tordue Salem ABUJA—Senator Caleb Zagi yesterday called for more funding for security agencies in the Country to enable them battle crime more effectively. The Lawmaker from Kaduna State, also tasked the Executive on the creation of more jobs for the jobless who are prone to crime, through  a deliberate revival of moribund industries across […]

THE ward congress of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Anambra State for the election of the party’s gubernatorial candidate in the state for the 2010 elections was marred, yesterday, by violence with supporters of rival governorship aspirants engaging one another in physical combat.