The Council also challenged the Petroleum Trust Development Fund (PTDF) to follow the line of the transparency and accountability of Yar’Adua administration to publish the details of its activities from inception, showing who had been trained and their places of origin against the backdrop of allegations that the PTDF had trained far less Niger Deltans than others in a deliberate intent to favour others against them.

By Kingsley Omonobi ABUJA — Ex-MASSOB Commander and leader of a dreaded 29-man gang of kidnappers and robbers who have terrorized the South East for over two and half years, Innocent Orji, alias ‘B’ stone General’, was yesterday paraded by the Inspector General of Police, Mike Okiro in Abuja. Orji confessed that one of the […]

He noted that the decisions of the state government on fiscal policies and development projects were based on the need of the people, stressing that the trivial outburst of some critics should not be an excuse to reprimand the present administration.

By Dayo Benson, Political Editor, Demola Akinyemi & Gbenga Ariyibi ILORIN — THE Action Congress (AC) senatorial candidate in Ekiti Central Senatorial District in the last election, Mr Ola Festus Bode, was yesterday declared the winner by the Court of Appeal sitting in Ilorin. Mr Bode is to replace the incumbent senator, Mr Adefemi Kila […]

The embattled monarch said that six of the 11 villages that formerly made up Oporomor Kingdom before they seceded to form Egrangbene Kingdom are from one descendant and speak a different Ijaw dialect which distinguishes them from the others, noting that they were unique and from Ogbe-Ijoh in Warri South-West Council Area of the state.