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• Corruption allegations: Fashola rattled

  Created: Sunday, 31 January 2010 23:41 Author: ADESINA WAHAB, News Editor

  •He’s on his way to impeachment •PDP calls for probe The corruption allegation levelled against the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), by a group, The True Face of Lagos, has sent serious jitters down the spines ...

• Revealed: Why North opposes Jonathan

  Created: Sunday, 31 January 2010 23:36 Author: ADESINA WAHAB, News Editor

  Despite the claim by the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) that it is supporting Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to step in as the Acting President in the absence of President Umaru Yar’Adua, majority of opinion leaders in the region are opposed ...

• I ’ve failed my people —Niger governor

  Created: Sunday, 31 January 2010 23:29 Author: MOHAMMED ABUBAKAR, Minna

    For the first time since he came into office about three years ago, the Governor of Niger State, Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu, has publicly accepted that there are serious flaws in the implementation of some of his administration’s programmes,...

• Niger Delta: MEND vows to resume attacks

  Created: Sunday, 31 January 2010 23:11 Author: TUNDE OSO

    Nigeria’s main militant group in the Niger Delta, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), has ended a ceasefire it declared in the wake of the amnesty granted them by the government and pledged to renew attacks on the n...

• Jos riots: Churches to force govt to implement recommendations

  Created: Saturday, 30 January 2010 10:28 Author: STEVE SUNDAY, Jos

  To stop the incessant religious crises being experienced in Jos, Plateau State, pentecostal churches in the state have threatened to keep vigil at the Government House, Jos to force the state government to implement findings and recommendations of previ...

• Ex-lawmaker berates Ikuforiji over comments on Fashola

  Created: Saturday, 30 January 2010 10:19 Author: OLAYIWOLA ABIOLA and AKEJU LOLADE

  A chieftain of the Action Congress [AC] in Lagos State and former member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Idris Dele Kosoko, has advised the Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr. Adeyemi  Ikuforiji, to concentrate on his constitutional resp...

• Save me from adulterous wife, man tells court

  Created: Saturday, 30 January 2010 10:14 Author: OLAYIWOLA ABIOLA and AKEJU LOLADE

  A man, Mr. Rotimi Daramola of 27 Iwajowa Street, Agege has urged the Alimosho Grade ‘B’Customary Court sitting in Iyana-Ipaja to dissolve the marriage between him and his wife, Mrs. Adeola Daramola.Daramola, who said he was forced to marry hi...

• ‘Stop castigating Obasanjo over Yar’Adua’

  Created: Saturday, 30 January 2010 10:10 Author: OLAYIWOLA ABIOLA and AKEJU LOLADE

  Nigerians at home and abroad should cease reprimanding former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his comments on the health situation of President Umaru Yar‘Adua, a group, the Obasanjo Solidarity Forum (OSF), has said.The Coordinator of OSF, Alhaji ...

• Election petition: Lawyers in shouting match over Rep seat

  Created: Saturday, 30 January 2010 10:06 Author: HAMEED OYEGBADE, Osogbo

  The sitting of the Osun State Retrial Election Petition Tribunal in Osogbo, was turned to a battlefield as lawyers engaged one another in a shouting match during the trial of the case between Leo Awoyemi, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP...

• Group rates Niger Delta states low on budget performance

  Created: Saturday, 30 January 2010 09:52 Author: BASSEY WILLIAMS, Yenegoa

  A report by Niger Delta Citizens and Budget Platform, (NDCBP), a non-governmental budget monitoring group in the Niger Delta, has rated the four core Niger Delta states of Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers low in their 2009 budget performance.Present...

• FG announces 12 months zero case status for guinea worm

  Created: Saturday, 30 January 2010 09:49 Author: News Desk

  Nigeria has taken a giant leap towards the total eradication of Guinea worm in the country. This is the attainment of 100 per cent absence of any report of Guinea worm in Nigeria. The fact of this achievement features highly and most prominently on the ...

• We ’ll compensate owners of demolished buildings —Oshiomhole

  Created: Saturday, 30 January 2010 09:37 Author: News Desk

  Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has assured landlords of buildings along Airport Road in Benin City, demolished in the ongoing road dualisation project of compensation.The governor who was on an inspection tour of the project said there wo...

• Alaafin urges Court of Appeal to dismiss Soun’ s suit

  Created: Saturday, 30 January 2010 09:18 Author: OLAIDE OYELUDE

  The battle over the chairmanship of the Oyo State Council of Obas and Chiefs has now shifted to the Ibadan division of the Appeal Court, where the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, is praying the court to dismiss the application challenging his chairm...

• Why govt policies on agriculture have failed —AFAN President

  Created: Saturday, 30 January 2010 08:59 Author: LOLADE AKEJU and ABIOLA OLAYIWOLA

  The President, All Farmers’ Association of Nigeria, Dr. Abdulahi Adamu, has shed light on why successive governments in Nigeria have failed in their policies aimed at propping up agricultural production in the country.In particular, he said Feder...

• I’m impressed with Shekarau —Shagari

  Created: Saturday, 30 January 2010 08:49 Author: News Desk

  Former president Shehu Shagari says he is impressed with the leadership style of Governor Ibrahim Shekarau of Kano State and wants the governor to keep the spirit alive. The former president who received Governor Shekarau at his country home in Sokoto s...

• Why we consented to Sardauna Kano —Sultan

  Created: Saturday, 30 January 2010 08:00 Author: News Desk

  The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar has given reasons why the Sokoto Sultanate consented to the conferment of the title of Sardauna Kano on Governor Ibrahim Shekarau of Kano state. The Sultan while receiving Governor Ibrahim Shekarau in h...

• Anambra 2010: AC ’ll lead a national revolution if... —Akande

  Created: Saturday, 30 January 2010 00:53 Author: OKWUDILI EZIOLISA, Onitsha

  The National Chairman of the Action Congress (AC), Chief Bisi Akande, has said that the party will lead a national revolution if the February 6, Anambra governorship election is rigged by any political party or group both within and outside the state.Ak...

• Lobbyists trail Oyinlola after dissolution of cabinet

  Created: Saturday, 30 January 2010 00:45 Author: HAMEED OYEGBADE, Osogbo

  Sequel to the dissolution of the State Executive Council, Osun State Governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola has been inundated with demands from highly placed politicians who are mounting pressure on him to appoint them into his new cabinet.The governor w...

• My dad was killed on my birthday —Dipo Dina’s son

  Created: Saturday, 30 January 2010 00:40 Author: SUNDAY ONYEWONSA

  Dipo Dina (Jnr), the last child of the slain politician, Otunba Dipo Dina, has expressed sadness at the way his father was killed, more so that it fell on his birthday.The younger Dina, a Junior Secondary School 3 student of International School, Univer...

• 2011: Obasanjo, IBB in fierce battle •over presidential candidate

  Created: Saturday, 30 January 2010 00:31 Author: ADESINA WAHAB, News Editor

  As it is becoming apparent that President Umaru Yar’Adua may not seek re-election due to ill-health, leaders of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), including former President Olusegun Obasanjo and military President Ibrahim Babangida are n...