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Headlines, Niger Delta
Monday, February 28th, 2011

CHAIRMAN, Forum of Clan Chairmen, Ijaw Youth Council, Mr Dio Reuben, has assured that the crisis rocking the leadership of Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, would not lead to tension or chaos in the Niger Delta region. Speaking at the meeting of Clan Chairmen of IYC in Port Harcourt, Mr Dio said that the purported suspension […]
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Ebonyi, State News
Monday, February 28th, 2011
ABAKALIKI – Ebonyi State government has set machinery in motion, to ensure that the long agitation by medical doctors in the state over Consolidated Medical Salary Structure, CONMESS, and Consolidated Health Workers Salary Structure, CONHESS, were addressed once and for all. Commissioner for Health and Environment, Dr. Sunday Nwangele, who spoke during a one-day seminar […]
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Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency, Top Stories
Monday, February 28th, 2011

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has advocated for the amendment of some sections of Nigeria’s constitution, so that performing governors in the country would be transferred to other states to ensure even development. Chief Obasanjo, who was in the state to participate in the flag-off campaign of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Uyo Senatorial […]
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Africa & World Politics
Monday, February 28th, 2011
3tweetsretweet Swaziland’s King Mswati III Mbabane – A Facebook group is calling for the overthrow of Swaziland’s king, Africa’s last remaining absolute monarch, through protests inspired by the revolutions in Tunisia and Lybia. Known as “The April 12 Uprising!!!” it promises, “all hell will break loose in Swaziland” on April 12 2011 when “a hundred […]
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Africa & World Politics
Monday, February 28th, 2011
Al Saadi Gaddafi, in Sydney to play with the Libyan soccer team, leaves his news conference yesterday surrounded by bodyguards. Cairo – The children of Muammar Gaddafi were increasingly engaged in recent months in covering up scandals fit for a “Libyan soap opera,” including negative publicity from extravagant displays of wealth, such as a million-dollar […]
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Headlines, National Politics
Monday, February 28th, 2011

FIVE men dressed in Moblie Police uniform, yesterday, morning shot dead one Police Constable, Felix Omale, attached to the “A” Division Police Headquarters, Warri, Delta State. A police patrol team from the “A” Division was at a nipping point along the Ekurede Itsekiri/NPA expressway when a black SUV with unknown plate number was flagged down […]
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Latest Politics
Monday, February 28th, 2011
Politics as usual makes strange bedfellows. The Action Congress of Nigeria (CAN), has at least demonstrated its lack of depth by fielding Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, the former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), as its presidential candidate. Few people would have imagined they would ever see the day when Ribadu and Czar […]
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Elections 2011
Monday, February 28th, 2011
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has dispelled speculations that it was discarding the recent electronically compiled voters register. INEC in a statement by Mr. Kayode Idowu, Chief Press Secretary to the National Chairman, said the clarification became necessary following reports that the commission was going to discard the recent register compiled through electronic means […]
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Enugu, Headlines, State News
Monday, February 28th, 2011
ENUGU — It was a tale of woes for patients in Lagos and Enugu yesterday as striking doctors were adamant to continue their strike. Patients who visited the three Federal Government-owned health institutions in Enugu yesterday for medication were turned back following a one-week sympathy strike embarked upon by the medical doctors. Ironically, some of […]
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Plateau, State News
Monday, February 28th, 2011
Five members of a family at Dabwa village, Kaduna Vom district of Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State were yesterday morning killed, while a little girl, believed to be the last child was wounded. Daily Sun gathered that nothing was removed from the house of the family head, whose name was given as […]