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INEC partners NIS on border areas

Posted by admin Latest Politics Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

The office of Independent National Electoral Commission at Illela Local Government Area of Sokoto State has entered into partnership with the Nigeria Immigration Service to ensure that only Nigerians register in the ongoing voter registration exercise. The electoral officer in charge of the local government, Alhaji Inusa Yusuf, disclosed this in an interview with the […]

3 persons shot, one missing in Ebonyi

Posted by admin Ebonyi, State News Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

Three persons were allegedly shot and one person still missing in a gun duel between rival groups in Ndike Amagu Ikwo community of Ebonyi Sate over who takes charge of the Direct Data Capture (DDC) machines for the voters’ registration. Three of the victims were lying critically ill at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Abakaliki […]

Man nabbed in hotel room with under-aged girls

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

Is this man a saint or a sinner, a child trafficker-cum-ritualist or a kind-hearted philanthropist that he claims to be? Whoever or whatever he is, it is now his responsibility to prove. Otherwise, the police who had since put him in cell would have to stamp him with the zeal of a criminal. And he […]

Abuja explosion: Charles Okah slumps in court

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

One of the suspects in last year’s bomb blasts in Abuja, Charles Okah, on Tuesday, slumped barely five minutes after stepping into the dock to continue his trial before a Federal High Court in Abuja. Okah and other accused persons, Obi Nwabueze, Edmund Ebiware and Tiemkemfa Osvwo (aka General Gbokos) are being prosecuted by the […]

US toughens stance on AbdulMutallab

Posted by admin Headlines, National Politics Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

Over one year after his alleged attempt to bomb a Detroit-bound aircraft, Nigerian-born terror suspect, Farour AbdulMutallab, may be coming under intense pressure from United States Congressmen and lawyers over his reported refusal to cooperate with investigators. Empowered Newswire reports that new Republican-controlled US Congress is planning to use his case to shake up the […]

‘N’Assembly to spend N10m on cleaning services monthly’

Posted by admin Headlines, House, Legislature, Senate Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

The National Assembly will this year spend N240.3m on the cleaning of its Phase III building and another N450.7m on fuelling of generators installed in the premises of the same edifice. The fuel cost will also cover generators in the Phase 11 of the same building and its Annex I & II complex. The sums […]

Oil in Ghana: Lessons for Nigeria

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

SIR: The recent commencement of the exploration of petroleum in commercial quantity in Ghana is cheery news for a country that had shown in the last decade some decency in democratic governance. There is little apprehension over how Ghana will handle this God-given resource. Without oil, Ghana has already positioned itself as a model for […]

ECOWAS court upholds jurisdiction over oil pollution in N’Delta

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

THE Economic Community of West African West (ECOWAS) Community Court of Justice in Abuja has held that it has jurisdiction to entertain a case brought by the Registered Trustees of the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) against the Federal Government and six oil companies over alleged violation of human rights and associated oil pollution […]

U.S. lists new countries eligible for H-2A and H-2B programmes

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

THE United States (U.S.) has identified 53 countries whose nationals are eligible to participate in the H-2A and H-2B programmes for the coming year The H-2A programme allows U.S. employers to bring foreign nationals to the United States to fill temporary agricultural jobs while the H-2B programme allows U.S. employers to bring foreign nationals to the United States for […]

Jos: Soldiers get shoot-at-sight order

Posted by admin Plateau, State News Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

Soldiers patrolling Jos, Plateau State capital, received shoot-at-sight orders yesterday after a group of youths killed an ad-hoc staff of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and set his body on fire on Monday. Army spokesman, Capt. Charles Ekeocha, who confirmed the new orders yesterday, said “the best option is to make sure you stop the […]