Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Supreme Court has thrown out a legal challenge by Felix Amadi, candidate of the African Political System Party, against Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi’s victory at the April 2011 governorship election in Rivers State. Amadi had filed the suit claiming that he was unlawfully omitted and excluded from contesting the election. The [...]
An air stewardess who was caught trying to smuggle a quarter of a million pounds worth of cocaine into the UK has been jailed for five and a half years. Chinwendu Uwakaonyenma Ogbonnaya, 29, from Lagos in Nigeria had flown into London’s Heathrow airport as a member of crew on an Arik Air flight from [...]
As long as they remain in the saddle, chairmen of the 20 Local Government Councils and the 37 Local Council Development Areas in Lagos State would not know peace until they implement the manifesto of the party under which they were elected and meet the expectations of the people of their areas. This was [...]
Men suspected to be members of the Islamic fundamentalist sect, Boko Haram struck early this morning in Ajaokuta, Kogi State, North Central Nigeria, killing four persons. A police station and a first generation bank were burnt by the group. Though a source claimed that it was a robbery attack, the incident had the trade mark [...]
Three persons including a two-month old baby have been confirmed dead while five others are at the Casualty Unit of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital following a kerosene explosion. The explosion which occurred at 56, New Airport Road in Calabar South, took the life of a 15- year old boy, Christian Inyang on the [...]
Activities in several ministries at the Lagos State Government Secretariat, Alausa, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, have been paralysed as Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, has thrown the secretariat into total darkness for five days. Since Monday, there has been total blackout at the government secretariat and government activities have slowed down due to lack of [...]
Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola has disclosed that the state government will need N8 trillion ($50 billion) to fix infrastructure in Lagos. The governor said there was no way the government could provide the fund to address this challenge as its budget is too meagre to cope with the demand. Fashola spoke at the commissioning [...]