…issues 21-day ultimatum on state of power

By Victor Ahiuma-Young

LAGOS – ORGANISED Labour in the the nation’s electricity sector, has accused the management of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), of shielding N5billion tariff Order fund, optic fibre fund from Al-hari, Dangote phase three and others.

Under the umbrella of the National Union [...]

By Isiaka Oyibo

LOKOJA — NO fewer than 14 persons yesterday lost their lives and scores of others injured in two separate accidents that occurred between Lokoja and Kotonkarfi axis of Kogi State.

In one of the accidents that occurred at about 2 a.m. on the Jamata bridge, Vanguard gathered that it involved a J5 [...]

By Abdallah el-Kurebe

Sokoto – Security agencies in Sokoto State comprising the Nigerian Army, Police, State Security Service (SSS), Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corp, (NSCDC), National Drugs Laws Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Immig-ration and Nigerian Prison Service ( NPS) met yesterday to avert a re-occurrence of sectarian crisis which [...]

Prof, we mourn you as we remember how you sacrificed your health, in service of this ungrateful country, during the rigorous seating of President Yar’Adua’s Technical Committee on the Niger Delta; which (as we found out within the first twenty-four hours of its inauguration) was set up to fail! But true progressive Nigerians saluted the determination of yourself and your fellow forty-eight other colleagues to produce the supposedly-desired Report against all odds.

Particularly, Ateke told Vanguard in a telephone interview yesterday, that he would prefer the the former UN scribe, Mr. Kofi Annan, to witness the dropping of arms by the militants “because I want to surrender my arms in a genuine environment”.

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has debunked insinuations in some quarters concerning disruptions in the country’s SAT 3 Fibre Optic Cable.

RELIEF may soon come for the people and government of Cross River State over the controversial ceding of 76 oil wells to Akwa Ibom State as President Umaru Yar’Adua has finally subscribed to a political settlement between the parties.The Director-General, National Boundary Commission, (NBC), Mr. Sadiq Diggi, told Vanguard, in Abuja.

Political economist and Director of Lagos Business School, Professor Pat Utomi and other stakeholders in the oil and gas industry, yesterday, urged the Federal Government to exercise caution over the controversial Petroleum Industry Bill.

The Senate yesterday approved N10 billion in the 2009 supplementary budget to enable the Federal Government execute the amnesty granted by President Umaru Yar’Adua to militants in the Niger Delta region.