BY CHIDI NKWOPARA IMO State governor, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, formally left the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) yesterday and pitched his tent with the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The PPA leadership is threatening to drag the decampee to court. Speaking to welcome Ohakim into the PDP family, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua described the governor as […]

By EMMA AMAIZE MOVEMENT for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) says emancipation will come faster than expected for the Niger-Delta if the South-South Governors sustain the tempo of their current agitation against unjust laws and policies against the region. It also says it is erroneous for anyone to say its recent attack on the […]

*Calls for sacrifices THE newly appointed pro-chancellor and     chairman of Governing Council of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, Dr. Erastus Akingbola, has called for more sacrifice on the part of stakeholders to ensure speedy development of the University. This appeal was made after the inauguration of the new governing council in Akure […]

By SIMON EBEGBULEM FORMER Senate chief whip and leader of the Action Congress (AC) in Edo State, Senator Rowland Owie, has hailed the South South governors for pulling out of the Federal Government amnesty programme, saying that the Federal Government had exhibited “unseriousness” in solving the Niger Delta problem by its decision to go ahead […]

By JIMITOTA ONOYUME RIVERS State government has ordered the temporary re-opening of the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) jetties at the Eastern Bye-Pass, Port Harcourt and Bonny Island, closed a week ago. The state government’s position came after a closed door meeting between the management of NLNG, led by the chairman, Chief Osoboye LongJohn and […]