The death at the hands of unknown assailants of a prominent member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and member of the House of Representatives, 61-year old Segun Moses Oladimeji, has again brought to the fore the...
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua yesterday called on the international community to increase financial and technological support to African countries to cope with the challenges of climate change. He hinted that...
The crisis in the Western Sudanese region of Darfur is among the hottest African emergency issues on the table of world leaders as the 62nd session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) holds in New York today....
Pope Benedict XVI has named Nigerian Monsignor Fortunatus Nwachukwu as the Head of Protocol at the Vatican Secretariat of State. The Vatican Press Office announced the appointment which became effective immediately....
The face-off between the Oyo State Government and the state workforce over ‘ideal minimum’ wage, last night took a fresh dimension as the workers insisted that the state government has no power to sack the...
The much-awaited summit on the Niger Delta crisis is being delayed to allow for wider consultations with particular ethnic nationalities of the region, Vice President Goodluck Jonathan has said. And if all goes well,...
The whereabouts of a leader and spokesperson of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Jomo Gbomo, remains object of speculation and discussion over the weekend, amidst reports that he had been...
Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State, in what appeared as a "a thank you visit" at the weekend, recounted his months of incarceration while in prison custody, and concluded that the experiences he gathered...
Less than four months after leaving office, ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s hope for a favourable mention by history is fast evaporating, as many of his former friends turn up their noses at his legacy. Right...
The presumed head of the Niger Delta militant body, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, who goes under the name of Jomo Gbomo, has been arrested in Angola, sources said yesterday. Security sources who...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said it does not have immediate plans to arrest the former governor of Rivers State, Dr. Peter Odili, for alleged corrupt enrichment and money laundering. A source in...
Despite its public pronouncement sacking its entire workforce, the Oyo State government has started sending emissaries to the leaders of the striking members of the state public service to accept the government’s...