09/28/2006
Onitsha - ONITSHA Bridge Head Market traders want the Anambra State government to intervene in the incessant unlawful arrest of their market leaders by the police over frivolous petitions by a foremost human rights organization in the state.09/28/2006
Onitsha - As political maneuvering for 2007 intensifies, President Olusegun Obasanjo, has been urged to resist the pressure to hand over power to a corrupt successor who will destroy the gains of his economic reforms. The President-General of the Anambra State Amalgamated Traders Association (ASMATA), Mr. Sylvester Odife (Jnr), told Daily Champion in an interview in Onitsha that President Obasanjo should ensure that there is continuity of his economic reforms by handing over to somebody who is conversant with and ready to continue the reform agenda of the present government.09/27/2006
Awka - In a post-mortem of events of the recent onslaught between the police and miscreants in Anambra State within the past three months, the state police command yesterday said a total of 12 policemen were kidnapped and killed when government waged war on NARTO, MASSOB, Anambra Vigilante Service and Bakassi.09/27/2006
A total of twelve policemen attached to Anambra State Police Command were kidnapped and killed by hoodlums during the last crisis which arose when the Anambra State Government waged a war to sack hoodlums, mainly members of NARTO, MASSOB, Anambra Vigilante Service and Bakassi. Also, about five police stations were attacked and destroyed by the hoodlums, and various ammunitions carted away by the hoodlums.09/24/2006
opinion ON assumption of office by Sunday Ehindero, after the removal of the former police boss, Tafa Balogun, one of the visible signs of change of leadership was the change in the police force slogan "Fire for Fire" for "Serving and Protecting with Integrity." Nigerians heaved sighs of relief, at least they now have the police force that will be the people's servants instead of people's tormentors. Good bye to stray bullets. Good bye to extortion. Welcome to service. Welcome to protection. Welcome to integrity.09/23/2006
opinion Lagos - An all-out war in the Niger Delta will not do the nation any good. Just as Nigerians were heaving a sigh of relief that good sense had finally triumphed in the corridors of power and that Armed Forces commanders have recognised that at the heart of the crisis in the Niger Delta is gross political marginalisation and can only be addressed through civic engagement, President Olusegun Obasanjo threw this kernel of wisdom out of the window and ordered renewed military crackdown in the region.09/13/2006
The State Security Service (SSS), yesterday, disagreed with political parties and politicians opposed to the screening of candidates by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the service, saying such parties have skeletons in their cupboard and should be stoutly resisted.09/06/2006
Abuja - Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has warned that the continued agitations of power shift by a section of the country could lead to another civil war and the notion of divine right to rule by any section of Nigeria must cease, saying it is undemocratic.09/04/2006
Onitsha - Armed soldiers shielded behind sandbags stand guard on both ends of the bridge over the River Niger and into Onitsha, a sprawling trading town of more than one million people in southeastern Nigeria. Vehicles entering the city are subjected to searches, ostensibly for weapons and signs of membership in the separatist Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), blamed for a recent series of violent incidents in the city.
