By Godwin Oritse THE management of the  Nigeria Cus-toms Service (NCS)is to dismiss officers involved  in aiding the release of contraband brought into the country by importers. The decision to dismiss this category of officers was as a result of increased influx of prohibited cargoes through the ports in Lagos. Disclosing this to newsmen in […]

By Anayo Okoli Umuahia – ABIA state Police Command, yesterday announced that it has arrested 17 suspects from different parts of the state for various criminal offences, ranging from armed robbery and illegal possession of live cartridges. All the arrests were made within four days, between Saturday and Tuesday. According to the new Police Commissioner, […]

By Chinelo Enemuo Chief Ajibola Aribisala has described CBN’s removal of bank chiefs as an illegal act.In his interview with Vanguard, he noted that the Economic and Financial Crimes Comission (EFCC) should be more concerned with bringing the debtors to book as well as recovering the money. According to him, “I see no reason why […]

Monetary  policymakers should consider doing more to counter credit market cycles to reduce risks of damaging asset price busts, according to a new IMF study after the worst financial market slump since the Great Depression. The study—based on house and stock price busts over the past 40 years—shows that previous asset price busts were often […]

OWERRI—Government at all levels have been reminded that they owe it as a constitutional duty to educate Nigerian children irrespective of the economic meltdown and the on-going disagreement with the university teachers. Former Imo state Commissioner for Education, Dr. Obinna Duruji, made the observation in a chat with Vanguard at Umuaka, Njaba Local Government Area […]

Umuahiua— Governor Theodore Orji of Abia state has enjoined the Northern states Governors to treat Christians living in their midst with the same amount of love, which Muslims are treated in Abia state. Orji who gave the charge when the Abia state Muslim community paid him Sallah homage in celebration of  Eid-El-Fitri, noted that every […]

Yenagoa—Niger Delta University chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and students yesterday staged a peaceful rally in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, with an appeal to well meaning Nigerians to pressurize the Federal Government to sign and implement the re-negotiated agreement with the union to save the nation’s university system from total collapse.

……aggrieved neighbors accuse police of cover-up By Ifeanyi Okolie Tears flowed freely last Sunday at Olodi Apapa area of Lagos when a middle-aged man had his eyes plucked off during a brawl with  a couple in their apartment.  The man identified as Cosmos Okoye, a native of Uke in Anambra State was said to have […]

By  Umar Yusuf ILORIN — Governor Bukola Saraki of Kwara State has described the gruesome murder of The Guardian Newspapers Assistant News Editor, Mr Bayo Ohu, as a monumental loss and a death too many for the media industry. Dr Saraki, in a condolence message to the family of the deceased, the management and staff […]

“On the grant of the Charter to the company in July 10, 1886, the man to whom Goldie turned to as Chief Justice was Sir James Marshall. The headquarters was at Asaba.’’ — Oluwole, T. S. Elias, Makers of Nigerian Law, Lagos 1963.

By Taye Obateru & Matthew Adeiza Jos — Catholic Arch-bishop of Jos, Most Rev. Ignatius Kaigama, has expressed concern about the gradual erosion of African cultural values by foreign ones, urging Nigerians to appreciate and promote their cultures. In a homily at the opening mass of the 7th edition of Forum for In-culturation of Liturgical […]

By  Anayo Okoli Umuahia—GOVERNOR Theodore Orji of Abia state has condemned the brutal killing the Guardian Newspaper Assistant Editor, Politics, Mr. Bayo Ohu just as he challenged the Nigerian police and other security agencies to ensure that no stone was left unturned to track down those behind the gruesome killing and  ensure that they are […]

By Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI—Judiciary workers in Imo State may down tools if the state government fails to implement the approved package for all judiciary staff nationwide. Confirming this to newsmen in Owerri, the Chairman, Imo State Branch of Judiciary Services Union of Nigeria (JUSUN), Mr. Iyke Mirikwe, also said that the patience of staff was […]

By Peter Duru MAKURDI — THE Benue State government has advised the people of the state to shun dangerous rumours being peddled by some persons which are aimed at creating disaffection in the state in order to set the people against one another and the government. The state’s acting Governor, Chief Steven Lawani, counselled the […]

ABUJA – Senator Smart Adeyemi, Chairman Senate Committee on Federal Character and Inter-Governmental Affairs, has described the death of Alhaji Doyin Mahmod and Mr. Bayo Ohu as great loss to the nation, journalism profession and their families. He said with their death on diffrent circumstances, the journalism profession has lost great and fine hands. Senator […]