A NON denomiatioal Christian group, Christian Leadership Forum (CLF) has commenced a mobilization drive to install a God-fearing leadership in the country come 2011. The group which claimed at the weekend to have started prayer meetings for the purpose of “sanitizing the spiritual environment” affirmed that Nigeria could not develop its political and economic agenda until the leadership was cleansed of its pollution.

WORRIED by the confusion currently trailing the Federal Government’s amnesty package for Niger Delta militants, especially the recent allegation of plans to eliminate repentant freedom fighters in the creeks, Christians in the region have decided to resort to prayers for the resolution of the protracted crisis in the area.

May be, the way to start, is to say right from the day Dr. Mimiko was announced governor, he had made pronouncements, he had taken some actions; and one common trend that has run through all these, is some kind of obsession to run me down. And he has done nothing except to look for a way to run down the administration that I left behind.

By Henry Umoru ABUJA – AS Nigerian Muslims join their counterparts across the world to mark the end of Ramadan and celebration of Sallah, the Acting National Chairman of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), Lisa Olu Akerele has called on them to imbibe the spirit of tolerance and sacrifice. In a Sallah message in Abuja […]

By Eric Ugbor ABA – Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) weekend, marked its 10th anniversary with church services held at designated venues. MASSOB was formed on September 13, 1999 by its leader, chief Ralph Uwazuruike with the sole aim of using non violent method to secure independence for the people […]

By Taye Obateru Jos – Governments at various levels have been urged to move beyond the passage of the Child Rights Act into law to putting in place a strong enforcement mechanism that will ensure that the objectives of the law are achieved. Director of a rights group in Plateau State, the League for Human […]

By Eric Ugbor ABA-Despite the excruciating economic meltdown, Ukwa East local government of Abia state, has in the past six months, spent over N200m in infrastructural development. The projects which are spread across communities in the local government area, included sinking of over 100 bore holes; provision of electricity to five communities in the area; […]

…Tasks INEC on free and fair polls By Chris Ochayi ABUJA – Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State yesterday picked All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) governorship nomination form to seek re-election in the forthcoming governorship election in Anambra State slated for February 6, 2010. Governor Obi who arrived exactly 5. 29 pm at the Chief […]

By Albert Akpor THERE seemed to be no end in sight to various   tricks employed by drug peddlers to beat the prying eyes of operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in their quest to export hard drugs out of the country. In recent past,  there had been instances of hard drugs being […]

By Dayo Johnson Akure-AS bye election holds today in Akure North Constituency of Ondo state, the Police authorities in the state yesterday read riot act to all the political parties and politicians to play the game according to the rules or face the wrath of the law. The Police Commissioner Donald Iroham at a meeting […]

…….what we did was obtaining not robbery, insists suspects By Evelyn Usman The benevolence of a lady to a stranded  young man at Surulere, Lagos has suddenly turned into  a nightmare for her.  In fact, the 33-year-old lady, Jumoke Ajiboye not only survived being strangulated by a hair‘s breath but lost about 500 US dollars, […]

The Senate has demanded the suspension of today’s handover of the General Aviation Terminal (GAT) at the local wing of the Murtala Mohammed Airport to Bi-Courtney Nigeria Limited.

He is a one-time President of the Nigerian Bar Association and private counsel to President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.
He spoke exclusively with Vanguard on the rejection of Prof Adeniran by the Government of the United States of America (USA) as ambassardor to Nigeria.

The Federal Government has rejected insinuations making the rounds that it had set aside N50 billion in this year’s budget for the funding of the amnesty programme for militants in the Niger Delta.

The Rivers State Government has appealed to the British Government to reverse its travel advice policy banning trips to the Niger Delta axis by its citizens.