By Abdallah el-Kurebe
President of the Coalition of West African Unions Working for the children, Mr. Sidikou Moussa, has advocated that 20% of the annual budgets of countries in West Africa be allocated for the protection of the African child.

Speaking on Wednesday in Sokoto at the opening ceremony of a 2-day workshop with [...]

The family of late Comrade Chidi Nwosu, who was murdered on the night of December 29, 2010, in his house at Ameke Abam in Arochukwu, council area of Abia state, has called on the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim and the Abia State Police Commissioner, Mr. Bala Hassan to thoroughly investigate the matter with a view to ensuring that those who killed the civil rights activists were apprehended.

Nigeria might have lost $130 billion from 2000-2008 to illicit financial flows, a new report issued by US-based group, Global Financial Integrity, GFI, said.

Johannesburg- South African icon Nelson Mandela was on Wednesday admitted at the Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg for what his foundation called “routine tests”.

THE call by the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, on President Goodluck Jonathan to abandon his presidential bid, yesterday, has divided the organisation with prominent northerners railing against the call.

Labour and Productivity Minister, Mr. ‘Emeka Worgu, yesterday warned that an industrial action by the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC might be difficult to avert, as the Federal Government, in the prevailing circumstances, may not be able to pay the minimum wage of N15,000 to workers across the country.

For the second time in two years, the Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, has been forced to modify the cause of oil spill in its areas of operations in the Niger Delta.

The declaration of Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, that it was morally and legally wrong for President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2011 presidential election divided northern members of the House of Representatives yesterday.

The much-awaited Professional guide on Property- The VANGUARD Property Edge is published on Thursday, January 27.

Following rumours of possible bomb attack at the nation’s flagship airport, Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, yesterday, passengers and operators were gripped with fear as most of them became suspicious of each other.

ONE of the youth corps members engaged in the ongoing registration exercise in Delta State has drowned in the River Niger.

Amidst calls by some groups in the state for the Special Task Force, STF, which maintaining security in Plateau State to be withdrawn over continued violence and alleged complicity of its members in some of the attacks, Commander of the force, Brigadier General Hassan Umoru, has said that only the Federal Government could determine when they should leave.