By Patience Ogbodo

BAUCHI —  A 28-year-old mother of seven children, Binta Isa, has delivered conjoined twins in Guduba village of Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi State.

The mother and her twins, who are both receiving treatment at the General Hospital, Ningi, told Vanguard  that it was the first time anybody from her family [...]

By Emeka Mamah

KADUNA — Nigeria’s leading automobile company, Peugeot Automobile Nigeria, PAN, said yesterday that there was plan to flood the Nigeria auto market with fairly used vehicles which would be certified by the manufacturers as a way of repositioning itself to compete favourably with others.

Managing Director of the company, Dr. Haroun Aliyu, [...]

A 25-year-old labourer has been arrested by the police for allegedly burying his daughter alive.

By Daniel Idonor

ABUJA—ACTING President, Goodluck Jonathan yesterday rose from a stakeholders meeting on the Federal Government intervention programme for the Niger-Delta, with an approval for the release of N19 billion for the reclamation of lands in areas that have hitherto been washed away into the ocean.

The spokesman for the Acting President, Mr Ima [...]

THE Senate Committee on Marine Transport yesterday queried the Nigeria Port Authority, NPA, over the poor implementation of the 2009 budget while describing its 2010 budget proposal as uncalled-for.

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri

ABUJA—The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, decried what it called a calculated attempt by some of the indicted officials of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, to frustrate the criminal proceeding it initiated against them for allegedly participating in the diversion of about N5billion belonging to the Federal Government.

Lead [...]

By Dennis Agbo

ABAKALIKI—YOUTHS in Ebonyi State have condemned in its entirety, the renewed Ezza-Ezillo communal war, which had claimed no fewer than 300 lives and destruction of property worth billions of naira since the crisis started in  2008.

National chairman of Ochudo (Peace) Vanguard for Attitudinal Change, Mr. Kelechi Mbam while inaugurating the Ezza-North [...]

THE Central Bank Governor, Mr. Lamido Sanusi, has said that the apex bank expects the N620 billion it injected into the eight troubled banks to be repaid by May.

By Tony Edike

ENUGU—THE Enugu State Government has appealed to the Federal Government to refund the money it spent on the rehabilitation of dilapidated federal roads in the state.

The state Deputy Governor, Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi, who made the request while receiving in audience the Minister of Works, Housing and Urban Development, Dr. Mohammed Lawal [...]

The peace of the university town of Amassoma in the Southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa State was yesterday violated by armed gunmen who launched a daring attack on one of the old generation banks, killing two policemen.

Worried by the endless wait over the return from Saudi Arabia of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, professionals in the Niger Delta have demanded for the immediate impeachment of the ailing president as a necessary basis towards protecting the nation’s fledgling democracy.

By Chidi Nkwopara

OWERRI—The Imo State Governor, Chief Ikedi Ohakim will today, swear-in  the recently appointed 27 Sole Administrators of the local government areas in the state.

Ohakim will also inaugurate the Coordinators of the newly created Local Government Development Areas in the state  at the Dan Anyiam Stadium Complex, Owerri.

Secretary to Imo State [...]

By Okey Ndiribe

THE Nigerian Policemen have been advised against adopting an attitude of complacency in order to consolidate successes they have recorded in recent times in the discharge of  their duties. This call was made by the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Ogbonna Onovo yesterday.

He further stated that the police arrested no fewer than [...]