Founded right after the Civil War as a social outlet for the depressed Igbo business men and women who were dispossessed of their property and lost their businesses in the Civil War, from North to South, Okaa Social Club later renamed Peoples Club of Nigeria has withered the storm of maladministration over the years.

Edo State government has ordered the management of Okomu Oil Palm Company to pay N11.8million as fine for alleged illegal possession of 734 logs of various species, from the state government forest over the years.

THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State has rejected the result of weekend re-run election in Akoko Edo constituency 1, of the state, describing it as a charade.

“We urge other oil companies to emulate Chevron’s good works and also appeal to the company to equally consider other Niger Delta blind students at various skill acquisition centres apart from the current beneficiaries who are from higher institutions across the country,” Evah said.

More facts emerged yesterday from bankers on the likelihood of eventual takeover of the five banks whose Managing Directors and executive directors were sacked last week on the strength of a letter written to the affected banks by the Central Bank Governor, Mr Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

Bayelsa State Commissioner for Information, Strategy and Communication, Chief Asara A. Asara, has dismissed claims by the leadership of All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP) in the state that it had withdrawn from the government of unity put in place two years ago, saying there was never such an arrangement.

To fully develop the framework from which the fusion of the internal and foreign dimensions of governance is to be appreciated I have teamed up with Eze Nwagbaraji also a Vanguard columnist to deepen our appreciation of the problems involved in the current spate of elected officials defection from the electorate that voted them into office to opponent electorates overwhelmingly defeated in the elections in which the defectors were elected into office.

By Taye Obateru Jos – The University of Jos Chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has vowed that no amount of intimidation or arm-twisting would make its members return to work unless the on-going strike is called off by its national body. It has, therefore, warned parents and guardians not to risk […]

Awka – KIDNAPPERS of Chief Godwin Okeke, an Onitsha-based transport magnate and Chairman / Chief Executive Officer of G.U.O Group of Companies have reportedly demanded N500 million as ransom for his release.

By AbdulSalam Muhammad Kano – Presidential candidate of defunct National Republican Convention (NRC) in the 1993 general election, Alhaji Bashir Tofa, declared yesterday that the Federal Government has not been fair to the people of the Niger Delta region since the nation’s major source of revenue, oil, is produced from the region. Tofa told journalists […]