Frontline militant leader in Delta State, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo’s call on the Federal Government last week, to extend the October 4, deadline fixed by the Amnesty Committee for Niger Delta militants to lay down their arms and ammunition and embrace peace, is aimed at ensuring a smooth and enduring peace process and not targeted at arm-twisting the Presidency, a group, the Niger Delta Peace Delta Restoration Initiative (NDRI), has said.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday adjourned till October 26, to rule on whether to take together or separately, the preliminary objection alongside the substantive suit by former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Dr. Erastus Akingbola, who is challenging his sack by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) through its governor, Mr. Lamido Sanusi.

By Henry Umoru ABUJA— THE Federal Government said yesterday that a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of not less than $900 billion was required by the country to become one of the top twenty economies of the world. According to the government, if the country must achieve its set target of vision 2020, National per capita […]

Seven persons including a police constable have been arrested by the Kaduna State police command over alleged rape and murder.

THE seven-year-old son of a Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, Chief Nosa Adams, was yesterday abducted by armed men suspected to be kidnappers.