…indicts NNPC, DPR, FIRS, AGF By Oscarline Onwuemenyi Abuja- The latest report on oil and gas revenues released by the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has uncovered financial discrepancies and outstanding payments totaling over US$5 billion from revenues generated by the sector in 2005. The report also identified unprecedented financial discrepancies, mispaid taxes, and […]

Mr Muyiwa Adetiba, is the pioneer editor of Vanguard newspaper. Between mid -80s when he left the medium and now, he has tried his hands on other publications. His present endeavours is Readers’ Delight and City Mail. The former, he said, is fashioned after Reader’s Digest while the latter focuses on Lagos as it transforms into a mega city.

According to Vanguard sources, in the early hours of Saturday, August 5, the butcher, Geriki Jubrin, had gone to the cattle market in the company of his colleagues to buy cattle to be slaughtered that day for their usual business.
Unknown to Geriki Jubrin, the Fulani cattle rearer whom he owed was there waiting for him to appear.

Rising from its 2009 plenary session the association lamented that the closure of the universities had brought untold hardship to parents and students and called on both parties to find amicable solution to the crisis.

The five Managing Directors of banks sacked by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Friday may be in for more trouble as the Federal Government has launched an investigation into their personal financial involvements with a possibility of putting anyone found wanting on trial.

Owerri – Students of Imo State University said they would not participate in the planned demonstration by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS). NANS planned a three-day protest to start on Monday in Owerri, to put pressure on the Federal Government to end the teachers’ strike which began on June 22, 2009. Mr Martins […]

By Innocent Anaba The Action Congress (AC) has accused the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Michael Aondoakaa (SAN), of seeking to destabilise the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) over what they perceive as the association’s persistent criticism of the President Umaru Yar’Adua’s administration. AC’s National Publicity […]

THERE are few qualities to define a purposeful, goal-oriented leadership as clear-thinking, careful planning and execution. The amount of these qualities a leader and/or government possesses should at most times be indicative of their/its preparedness or otherwise for leadership

By Emma Amaize WARRI—OVER 1,000 students of tertiary institutions from Gbaramatu kingdom in Delta State have appealed to the state government to give them a special rehabilitation grant to enable them to continue with their education in view of the fact that the means of livelihood of their parents/guardians have been destroyed following the recent […]

By Kingsley Omonobi Abuja -  Authorities of the Nigerian Army yesterday washed their hands of a purported security report which allegedly emanated from its Directorate of Military Intelligence to the effect that Governor Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe State and other key functionaries of his administration are to be assassinated. The Governor had in a news […]