By Awa Kalu In our earlier instalments on Justice Kutigi’s valedictory session upon his retirement as Chief Justice of Nigeria, attention was drawn to the various sub-themes on which speakers at the occasion dilated. Before we juggle your memory on the critical areas on which the individual speakers bared their minds, it is important to […]

Barely 24 hours after armed gunmen launched a vicious attack on the Amassoma branch of the United Bank For Africa, UBA, in the Southern Ijaw council area of Bayelsa State in which five persons, including two policemen and an eight months old baby lost their lives, an unknown gunmen struck yet again Wednesday at Opolo in the heart of Yenagoa, the state capital and abducted Mrs. Florentina Emmanuel, the 73-year-old mother of a National Assembly member, Senator Emmanuel Paulker, representing Bayelsa Central senatorial district.

Over 5,000 members of ‘Project Mutu 2011’ in Patani Local Government Area of Delta State have endorsed the member representing Bomadi/Patani Federal Constituency at the Federal House of Representatives, Mr . Nicholas Mutu to re-run, come 2011 general elections.

DELTA State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has charged Commissioners in the state to regularly organise training workshops for their staff to enhance capacity building as well as to clearly provide leadership for the workforce.

By Innocent Anaba The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has established the Gani Fawenhimi Award for Human Rights and Social  Justice. The association after its National Executive Council, NEC meeting in Yola, Adamawa State, said “NEC adopted the recommendation of the NBA Human Rights Institute, NBA-HRI, to establish a signature award for the promotion of human […]