By Henry Umoru ABUJA — THE Israeli Government Ambassador, Moshe Ram, disclosed yesterday that the volume of trade between Nigeria and his country for 2008 and the first quarter of 2009 stands at $500 million favouring the latter, just as he stressed that the exportation of goods by Nigerians to Israel remains very negligible and […]

By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA – A telecommunication firm, Mobitel, yesterday, requested a Federal high court sitting in Abuja to nullify the decision by the Federal Government cancelling the licensing process of National frequencies in the 2.3 GHz band by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). Mobitel had fulfilled the conditions precedent to the acquisition of the […]

Onitsha – Leaders of the Old Motor Spare Parts Market, Obosi near Onitsha in Anambra have set up modalities to check the sale of stolen vehicles and motor spare parts at the market. Chief Obi Idemobi, the Chairman, Caretaker Committee of the market, locally called “Ngbuka market’” made this known to newsmen in Obosi near […]

By Emmanuel Aziken Abuja – The Anambra State National and State Assembly caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has made public documents it claims are evidence that leading members of the state executive of the party in Anambra state were bona fide members of the opposing Democratic Peoples Party (DPP). The legislators in a […]

By Taye Obateru &   Doyin Ojosipe Jos -  Former National Chairman of the PDP and first civilian governor of Plateau State, Chief Solomon Lar, took his turn yesterday at the Prince Bola Ajibola Commission of Inquiry into the recent Jos crisis, stressing the need for an end to the recurring disturbances in the state. He […]

…issues 21-day ultimatum on state of power By Victor Ahiuma-Young LAGOS – ORGANISED Labour in the the nation’s electricity sector, has accused the management of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), of shielding N5billion tariff Order fund, optic fibre fund from Al-hari, Dangote phase three and others. Under the umbrella of the National Union […]

By Isiaka Oyibo LOKOJA — NO fewer than 14 persons yesterday lost their lives and scores of others injured in two separate accidents that occurred between Lokoja and Kotonkarfi axis of Kogi State. In one of the accidents that occurred at about 2 a.m. on the Jamata bridge, Vanguard gathered that it involved a J5 […]

By Abdallah el-Kurebe Sokoto – Security agencies in Sokoto State comprising the Nigerian Army, Police, State Security Service (SSS), Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corp, (NSCDC), National Drugs Laws Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Immig-ration and Nigerian Prison Service ( NPS) met yesterday to avert a re-occurrence of sectarian crisis which engulfed […]

Gimba recorded Yar’Adua first failure in sports. Failure number two; up till date, nobody has uttered a word to the footballers who won silver and the five girls who won bronze – the 4x100m relay team lead by Damola Osayome and Blessing Okagbore who won our first medal from the Long Jump, interestingly the same event that gave us our first ever gold in Atlanta through Chioma Ajunwa.

I sometimes succumb to emotional cowardice; and I couldn’t quite bring myself to tell Dr. Lukman – a distinguished father figure and former OPEC boss with whom I’d had a warm relationship for several years – that my decision to absent myself from OGIC was also partly motivated by professional frustrations and political concerns.

Prof, we mourn you as we remember how you sacrificed your health, in service of this ungrateful country, during the rigorous seating of President Yar’Adua’s Technical Committee on the Niger Delta; which (as we found out within the first twenty-four hours of its inauguration) was set up to fail! But true progressive Nigerians saluted the determination of yourself and your fellow forty-eight other colleagues to produce the supposedly-desired Report against all odds.

Particularly, Ateke told Vanguard in a telephone interview yesterday, that he would prefer the the former UN scribe, Mr. Kofi Annan, to witness the dropping of arms by the militants “because I want to surrender my arms in a genuine environment”.

EFFORTS  at redeeming the damage done to the Niger Delta region are increasingly becoming facades, charades and circuses – government actions consistently fail to match the intent of those acclaimed efforts. The activities of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, starting from the location of its headquarters in Abuja, rather than the ravaged Niger Delta, […]

NIGERIA’S birthday is the year 1914 after the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Provinces by the British imperial administrator, Lord Luggard. The intention was to facilitate easy rule of the country by Britain. In fact, the easy administration of the two countries was through native authorities led by the Emirs in the North, Obas in the West and in the absence of Emirs or Obas in the East, by “Warrant Chiefs”.

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has debunked insinuations in some quarters concerning disruptions in the country’s SAT 3 Fibre Optic Cable.