By Emeka Mamah

KADUNA — General Secretary of the National Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, Comrade Issa Aremu, said yesterday that the seven-point development agenda of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua had already been scaled down to four.

Aremu said the four-point agenda now include “power supply, electoral reform and [...]

SPEAKER of Delta State House of Assembly, Mr Martin Okonta, has faulted perceived misrepresentations in the media over the on going legal battle at the Supreme Court between him and Mr Philip Kingsley, on the rightful candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the Ika South Constituency in the Delta State House of Assembly.

By Gbenga Olarinoye

OSOGBO—Justice Alli Garba-led Osun State Retrial Election Petitions Tribunal has fixed tomorrow for judgment in the petition filed by Action Congress, AC, gubernatorial candidate, Engr Rauf Aregbesola against the 14 April 2007 victory of Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

The tribunal was constituted in 2009 following the Court [...]

By Taye Obateru

Jos —  Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to contest next year’s presidential election, saying merit should take precedence over zoning in the politics of the country.

He stated this yesterday while receiving a delegation of Mupun people from Pankshin Local Government Area who paid him a [...]

By Taye Obateru

Jos — The Chidren’s Day celebration commemorated worldwide every May 27 has been cancelled in Jos North and Jos South local government areas of Plateau State for security reasons.

This, Vanguard learnt, may not be unconnected with the renewed outbreak of violence in the capital last Sunday which resulted in the death [...]