By Anayo Okoli Aba—SOME residents of of Aba, Abia state, especially in the Ogbor Hill area, have petitioned the Abia State Environmental Protection Agency (ASEPA) zonal office in Aba, over what they called “unwarranted arrests, extortion, intimidation, illegal detention and arbitrary levies they are subjected to by workers of the agency, with nothing to show […]

By Emeka Mamah The Unity Forum has described the language  used  by President Umaru Yar’Adua in asking Governor Babatunde Fashola to dispense with the 37 Local Government Development Authorities as unstatemanly. The Forum also said that Gov. Fashola’s reply to Yar’Adua’s letter did not help matters in a purely constitutional matter just as the reaction […]

Bayelsa State chapter of Action Congress (AC) has described the meeting between President Umaru Yar’Adua and Niger Delta militants, led by Mr. Victor Ben Ebikabowei, alias General Boyloaf, as commendable, noting that the development had shown that the barriers of bureaucracy and deceit could be broken without derailing the amnesty deal.

By VANGUARD/NAN Parents and guardians in Uyo have called on the striking members of ASUU to call of their strike and return to the negotiation table over their grievances. Mr Sammuel Akpan, a Secondary School Teacher in the Akwa Ibom in his reaction, said the Federal Government was “not sincere in asking ASUU to negotiate […]

Gombe – Two fresh cases of polio virus have been confirmed in Funakaye and Yamaltu/Deba Local Government area of Gombe State in addition to the seven recorded earlier in the year. Dr Bashir Abba, WHO Coordinator in Gombe, said the discovery brought to nine the number of cases detected in the state this year. Abba, […]