By  Vincent Ujumadu

AWKA—KIDNAPPERS have struck again in Anambra State after some months of peace, as they abducted a businessman, Chief Fimbaars Ofordum, early yesterday at Igboukwu in Aguata Local Government Area of the state.

Offordum, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Oquism group of companies, was returning to Onitsha after spending the weekend [...]

By Chioma Gabriel & Vincent Ujumadu

AWKA—SENATOR Joy Emodi, who until last week, represented Anambra North in the Senate, has cleared the air on the report in the media, that she lost at the lower tribunal before the matter got to the Court of Appeal, where she lost.

The Court of Appeal sitting in Enugu [...]

By Emma Amaize

WARRI—PROMIENT Urhobo leader and politician, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, Sunday, expressed shock that no Urhobo indigene  was nominated by the Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, as a minister in his cabinet, saying it was an affront on the ethnic nationality.

Speaking to Vanguard on phone, Gbagi said:   “I want to wait tomorrow (today) [...]

By Simon Ebegbulem

BENIN— Edo state Commissioner on the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr Donald Omorodion, has vowed to utilize the funds meant for the oil producing communities in the state for the development of the areas.

He lamented that oil producing communities in the state had suffered untold hardship due [...]

By George Onah

Port Harcourt—Plateau natives resident in Rivers State have said that they would only believe in the  seriousness of the Federal Government to resolve the crisis when those arrested have been prosecuted in court.

The group, however, praised the Acting President, Goodluck Jonathan, for the proactive steps taken to restore normalcy to the [...]

By Gabriel Enogholase

BENIN—FOLLOWING the recent occupation of Federal Girls Government College, Benin, by ex-militants protesting their exclusion from the post-amnesty programme, the Orhionmwon Youth Vanguard has made a passionate appeal to Governor Adams Oshiomhole to make a representation to the Federal Government on their plights.

The group in a statement in Benin yesterday signed [...]

Peoples’ Daily, Nigeria’s latest daily newspaper which 43 Northern Nigerians founded about a year and half ago, was formerly presented to the public in Abuja Monday at a crowded ceremony replete with elite of Northern politics, businessmen, and some of the most acclaimed Nigerian Journalists of all times, among others.