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Clandestine pressure from powerful forces that
led to the emergency rule in Plateau State has been unearthed, less than two weeks to the anticipated restoration
of democracy and, hopefully, Governor Joshua Dariye to the saddle in the home of peace and tourism. And the relative
serenity that has enveloped the state since democratic structures were put on ice on May 18 may not endure, if
the alarm raised by an interest group has some grain of truth. Besides, Dariye’s return could be a long shot,
going by revelations by Jigawa State Governor Saminu Turaki, who has owned up to the major role he and four other
Northern governors played which led to the declaration by Aso Rock. 
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Former Chief Justice Dies
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 TFormer
Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Mohammed Bello, has passed on at the age of 74. He died yesterday at a
German hospital after a protracted illness. A press statement signed on behalf...
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Police defend killing of 12
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 A disclosure came yesterday from the Kaduna
State Police Commissioner, Alhaji Mohammed Yesufu, that the 12 exhumed bodies at the Tundun Wada cemetery, Kaduna,
were those of suspected armed robbers...
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Still Chasing the Ghost
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 In the renewed bid to recover funds allegedly
looted by the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, the Federal Government has headed for the Court of Appeal,
Kaduna. Before the appellate court, the government claims that the late Abacha operated a criminal organisation...
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