The Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, yesterday decried the inability of Yoruba governors to forge a common front on crucial matters affecting the interest of the Yoruba race. In a statement by its leader, Chief Reuben Fasoranti, the group noted with regret that “there is so much disunity among governors of the south-west”.

THE Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Maurice Iwu, has warned that the problems which bedeviled the 2007 general election may still crop up in 2011 if urgent steps were not taken to redress them.

By Vincent Ujumadu Awka – The Anambra State House of Assembly has charged Town Union executives, religious leaders and other stakeholders to compliment government enlightenment campaign on the use of long  lasting, insecticide treated mosquito nets, in a bid to fight the malaria scourge. Chairman of the House Ccommittee on Health, Mr. Anthony Ezechinwoye, said […]

The National President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, has called on President Umaru Yar’Adua to urgently order law enforcement agents to arrest and prosecute sponsors of all religious fundamentalist groups threatening the stability of the country or risk an imminent major religious crisis.

Former military governor of Kaduna State, Col. Abubakar Dangiwa Umar (rtd), has expressed worry over what he described as President Umaru Yar’Adua’s bias for the appointment of mediocrities from the North into high public offices.