Night of honour for revered communications guru •UNN alumni fete lecturer, raise funds for faculty By TESSY IGOMU Wednesday, June 30, 2010 •Prof. Ekwelie (2nd right) and others at the event. It was an evening of testimonials and reminiscences. Recently, erstwhile students of Jackson College of Journalism, Department of Mass Communication, University of Nigeria, Nsukka [...]

I’ll give voice to youths –Assembly aspirant By DICKSON OKAFOR Wednesday, June 30, 2010 The clamour to be involved in governance by youths in Omala Local Government Area of Kogi State seems to be yielding result as they have finally succeeded in wooing their leader to take a shot at the House of Assembly in [...]

2011: Group calls Nigerians to support Jonathan From VAL OKARA, Owerri Wednesday, June 30, 2010 A political group, “Goodluck Support Group”, has called on Nigerians to unite in their support for President Goodluck Jonathan’s to contest the next presidential poll. The Imo State Coordinator of the group, Chief Don C. Njoku who made the call [...]

Trovan crisis: Court stops disbursment of N50bn compensation From GODWIN TSA, Abuja Wednesday, June 30, 2010 A Federal High Court in Abuja has temporarily stopped the disbursement of about N50 billion compensation to the victims of the Pfizer Trovan Clinical Trial of April 1996 in Kano State. The court further stopped the conduct of DNA [...]

2011: Crack in ACF deepens From ISMAIL OMIPIDAN, Kaduna Wednesday, June 30, 2010 The crisis that has enveloping the foremost socio-cultural group in the north, Arewa Consultative Forum, (ACF), has deepened. The issue is tearing apart the group, which prides itself as a “non-partisan and non-political” group, is politics and, specifically, the 2011 presidency. Barring [...]