By Tordue Salem
ABUJA — The young lives claimed by the Sosoliso plane crash at the Port Harcourt Airport in 2005 would have been rescued by an effective emergency management and fire service in place, Vice President Goodluck Jonathan said yesterday.
The vice president spoke at the first National Fire Conference and Exposition at the [...]
Awka—Justice Peter Olayiwola of the Federal High Court in Awka, Anambra State, yesterday adjourned to November 9, further hearing in the suit by Mr Ken Emeakayi, challenging Professor Chukwuma Soludo’s candidature as the PDP flag bearer for the 2010 Anambra governorship election.
Olayiwola adjourned for ruling, on whether the court has the jurisdiction to entertain [...]
National Publicity Secretary of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), Chief Ben Onyechere says the claim by the Peoples Democratic Party’s National Chairman, Chief Vincent Ogbulafor that his party was ready to take Kano and Lagos is an empty boast aimed at boosting his image.
In a statement, Chief Onyechere said: “Ogbulafor is simply colourless. Instead [...]
AWKA — THE worry of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate for the February 6, 2010 governorship election in Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, was yesterday deepened, as his 78-year-old father, Pa Simeon Soludo, was kidnapped in his home town, Isu-Ofia, in Ekwuluobia, Aguata Local Government Area of the state.
WE need to thank the Honourable Members of the House of Representatives who passed for second reading, the patriotic bill to deregulate the immunity clause. It is patently unjust and undemocratic for only the President, his Vice, state governors and their deputies to enjoy constitutional immunity.
THREE years ago, the country mourned the spates of air disasters in the country. On the night of September 22, 2006, Bellview flight 210 went missing until its strewn parts were found in Lisa, Ogun State the next day.
By Taye Obateru & Adedoyin Ojosipe
Jos — Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State has promised that the report on the last November 28 crisis in the state would not be allowed to gather dust but would be implemented for sustenance of peace in the state.
He gave the assurance yesterday while receiving the [...]
*Offer N2m for more clues
By Kingsley Omonobi
ABUJA — INSPECTOR-General of Police, Ogbonna Onovo, said yesterday that the Police have arrested two suspects in connection with the murder of The Guardian’s Assistant News Editor killed in his home in Lagos on September 20, this year, just as he announced a N2 million reward for [...]
By Dennis Agbo
ABAKALIKI — WIFE of Ebonyi State Governor, Mrs. Josephine is collaborating with the United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) to prevent maternal mortality and morbidity, particularly in the state.
Mrs. Elechi, who spoke at a dissemination and tool development workshop on “Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Law†in Abakaliki, identified ignorance, poverty, [...]
By Tony Edike
ENUGU—FORMER Assistant National/South East Zonal Secretary of the PDP, Chief Okey Ezenwa, has said that the decision by the Anambra governorship candidate for the 2007 election, Dr. Andy Uba, to seek the reclamation of his mandate through the court was the only logical and reasonable thing to do.
According to him, this [...]
LAGOS — FORMER Chief Security officer to the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, was one of the high-profile inmates of the Kirikiri Maximum-Security Prison who welcomed Chief Bode George, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the prison on his arrival, Monday, Vanguard can authoritatively reveal.
Nigeria’s Eaglets scrapped up their first win of the FIFA Under-17 World Cup with a slim win over Honduras last night at the Abuja National Stadium.
Just unlike what is happening in other centres where teams are being treated to the best of hospitality by the host states and their governors, those playing in the Federal Capital Territory, including the Golden Eaglets are being snubbed by the FCT Minister, Senator Adamu Aliero.
ENUGU— THE National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) Monday called for the enactment of law prescribing stiffer penalties for drug counterfeiters, asking the nation to emulate China’s approach to the battle against fake drugs.
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