By Daniel Idonor ABUJA—VICE President Goodluck Jonathan has applauded the oil multi-national operating in Nigeria for their steadfastness and confidence in government’s initiatives aimed at restoring peace and guaranteeing normal business environment for oil exploration and production in the Nigeria. The Vice President stated this when he received the Vice Chairman of the Board of […]

Coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CCSO) has decried the serial political crises bedevilling Ogun State in recent times and particularly the last publication of a photograph of “nude photographs of a member of the Ogun State House of Assembly whilst ‘supposedly’ taking a secret oath” which has triggered “counter-accusations and fresh allegations of fetish escapades […]

By Dayo Johnson AKURE—FORMER Chairman of the National Examination Commission (NECO) and the immediate Secretary to the Ondo State government, Mr Isaacs Kekemeke yesterday advocated “education solution” as a panacea to the youths’ restiveness and militancy in the Niger Delta region of the Country. Kekemeke said in Akure “by introducing compulsory qualitative education in all […]

By Ola Ajayi IBADAN—Former Petroleum Minister, Professor Tam David-West, yesterday faulted the protest registered by the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) that the attack on Atlas Cove jetty in Lagos could trigger full-blown tribal war. He said in as much as he would not support the destruction of the jetty, he said the YCE erred […]

The association, in a statement made available to journalists yesterday in Warri, said the appointment of Air Vice Marshal Larry Koinyan and Mr. Chibusor Ugweha was most commendable. They also applauded the President’s magnanimity in confirming Elder Power Aginighan as the Executive Director, Finance/Administration of the Commis-sion.