THE Niger State government has taken delivery of five ambulances equipped with oxygen concentration machines and other life saving facilities to be used in the accident flash points in the state.
I have this male colleague at work and we are very friendly, we see and chat with each other everyday. We’re both single and so far, the relationship has been purely platonic – except for once or twice that we have kissed when slightly tipsy. Lately, I’ve been having sexual fantasies about him. I’m not sure he feels the same way and I’m worried an affair might ruin our relationship. How do I make the first move without making a fool of myself?
By Anayo Okoli
Umuahia—ABIA State Government says it is still owing the Federal Government $20 million, which the Federal Government is deducting from its monthly allocation.
The debt, the government explained was inherited from old Imo State, which was borrowed to build industries. Governor Theodore Orji also disclosed that the Federal Government is owing the [...]
By Peter Duru
MAKURDI — Director-General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Dr. Paul Orhii, has disclosed that the agency has intercepted 7 truck-loads of fake drugs valued at over N600 million at Idi-Iroko, a boarder town in Lagos State.
The counterfeit drugs which were being hauled into Nigeria from a [...]
By AbdulSalam Muhammad
KANO — The police have arrested 57 suspects in connection with the robbery attack on former Governor of Kano State, Alhaji Abubakar Rimi, which eventually led to his death.
Kano State Commissioner of Police, Muhammad Gana told the visiting Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Mr Uba Ringim, that most of the accused persons [...]
WARRI — THE 23rdCoronation anniversary (Oyo-Ekoro) of His Majesty, Ogiame Atuwatse II, The Olu of Warri, commences today, 28 April through May 2.
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mrs. Farida Waziri, has said the agency has so far recovered over $6 billion from top political and economic operators in the country since its inception with $3.5bn recovered in the last 18 months.
By Olasunkanmi Akoni & Monsur Olowoopejo
 LAGOS — Apparently reacting to various allegations levelled at Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, an elder statesman and prominent indigene of Lagos state, Chief Molade Okoya-Thomas, yesterday, declared that the current attacks on Fashola’s administration was meant to distract the governor, saying the plan would fail.
Okoya-Thomas spoke [...]
By Victor Ahiuma-Young
LAGOS — WORKERS of Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, have given a 21-day ultimatum to its management to resolve lingering industrial grievances, especially monitisation, casualisation, balance of 150% salary increase, among others, failing which they would down tools.
In a 23 April 2010 letter to Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the [...]
LESS than 72 hours after the gruesome murder of the judicial correspondent of the Nation Newspaper, Mr. Edo Ugbagwu, in Lagos by unknown gunmen, one of the Vanguard’s correspondents in Edo State, Mr. Simon Ebegbulum, narrowly escaped death Monday night.
By Kolade Larewaju
ABEOKUTA – NO fewer than three persons were feared killed and several others injured as the commercial town of Ota, in Ogun State went on the boil again following a bloody clash between the Aworis and Egbas resident in the area.
The clash which threw the whole town into disarray was said [...]
A 23-year-old girl, Vivian Oghenero, was, yesterday, paraded by the Police in Edo State for dumping her baby in a pit toilet in Benin-City.
By Victor Ahiuma-Young & Olasunkanmi Akoni
ABUJA — NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, has said Nigerian journalists have become endangered species with the latest dastard killing of Mr. Edo Sule Ugbagwu, Judicial Correspondent of The Nation newspapers, and called on Nigerian Police and other security operatives in the country to fish out the killers.
This came [...]
By Daniel Idonor
ABUJA—THIS week’s weekly meeting of the Executive Council of the Federation, EXCOF, scheduled for today has been shelved until next week, just as the National Security Council, NSC, meeting will hold today in its place.
The move, according to presidency source, is to enable members of the just constituted cabinet meet up [...]
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