The Yoruba Youths for Good Governance (YYGG), a group saddled with the responsibility of monitoring and ensuring probity, equity and fairness in south-west public affairs, says it is “deeply perturbed by the skewed ministerial list in favour of Ogun State by Acting President Goodluck Jonathan”.  “The list that is before the Senate needs another look [...]

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, has extolled the virtues of the Oore of Mobaland, Oba Oladele Adedapo Popoola, saying that the monarch ranked among the ten most important Yoruba traditional rulers in Nigeria and in the diaspora.

Sijuwade made the remark at the grand finale of the 10th coronation anniversary of the Oore [...]

President Hosni Mubarak returned to Egypt yesterday, landing in Sharm El Sheikh where he will reassume presidential powers while recovering from gallbladder surgery in Germany, state television showed.

The European Union, EU, United Nations, UN, and African Union, AU, have called on ECOWAS member states to redouble their efforts in the fight against human trafficking, and put it at the top of their national agenda.

Reverend Peter Obadan is the former Deputy Governor of Edo state, during the administration of Chief John Odigie-Oyegun. He was blunt as ever in this interview with Saturday Vanguard, particularly as regards the lingering crisis in the state Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

After about 30 years of service, Major General Saleh Maina, one of the finest Nigerian Army officer’s and the General Officer Commanding the 3rd Armoured Division of the Nigerian Army, was decorated with the enviable rank of Major General by the Chief of Army Chief, Lt. General Luka N Yusuf, on December 11, 2007 with the approval of the Commander in Chief. Recently, as GOC 3 Division, Maina has been in the eye of the storm.