There are indications that immediate past President of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), Comrade Peter Akpatason, will seek to represent Edo North in the Senate come 2011.

She lamented that the House, after inspection of projects contained in this year’s budget, discovered that less than 50% of the budget was implemented, even when the year has almost ended.

By Patience Ogbodo BAUCHI —  Chairman of the Bauchi State Agency for the Control of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis/Leprosy and Malaria (BACATMA), Rilwanu Muhammad, has said of about three million people living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, 60 per cent are women just as majority of them live in the rural areas thereby making it very difficult for […]

By Dennis Agbo ABAKALIKI—All the federal  roads that cut across different parts of Ebonyi State have become impassable and are now death traps to motorists and commuters that ply them. Only yesterday, a commercial lorry carrying sand collided with a Nissan saloon car at the Nkalagu area on the Abakaliki-Enugu highway with two feared dead, […]

Lagos—The Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Afribank Nigeria Plc, Mr. Nebolisa Arah said yesterday that the bank was not planning any retrenchment of staff or contemplating any salary cut of its staff. He stated this at the Corporate Office of Vanguard when he paid a courtesy visit to the Editor Mr. Mideno Bayagbon. Unlike what […]

By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA—A federal high court sitting in Abuja yesterday fixed December 18, this year, for judgment in a suit by former Minister for the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir Ahmed el-Rufai seeking to void the decision by the Senate barring him, for life, from holding public office. The trial high court judge, Justice […]

By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA—The Attorney-General of the Federation, Chief Michael Kaase Andoakaa (SAN) yesterday declared that the Federal Government would not spare any of the sacked bank chief executives accused of corruption, inspite of ongoing efforts by some of them to frustrate their trial. Andoakaa (SAN) who  spoke yesterday at the International Anti-Corruption Day 2009 […]

*As Buhari canvasses better presidential succession plan By Emmanuel Aziken & Kingsley Omonobi ABUJA—Immediate past Governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa was arrested at a meeting of leading opposition leaders in Abuja yesterday where erstwhile Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari called for strict constitutionalism in the event of a presidential succession. The opposition […]

The six-month old crisis that has completely paralysed academic, administrative and technical activities in Lagos State University is still very far from being resolved despite the order given to workers by government to resume last Friday, 4th December, 2009, that now seemed ignored

Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Maurice Iwu said yesterday it is unlawful for political parties that do not have candidates to campaign, just as the commission released names of 24 governorship candidates and their deputies for the next February governorship election in Anambra State, with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) not fielding any candidate.

DELTA State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has dismissed the rumour making the rounds that he had quarrels with his predecessor, Chief James Onanefe Ibori.

AS pressure continues to mount on ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua to resign immediately or unconditionally handover to the Vice-President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, the Federal Government yesterday reaffirmed that no matter the pressure he will not be advised to resign.

NIGER-DELTA peace activist, Mr. Cletus Arerebo, has commended Vanguard Newspapers, Governors Emmanuel Uduaghan and Timipre Sylva of Delta and Bayelsa States respectively for their role in the success the Federal Government has recorded so far in its amnesty programme for militants.

Personally, experience has taught me that adequate funding that will attract the best human and material resources, is a very vital factor. You need good fund to recruit experienced and seasoned teachers, put in place the necessary infrastructure and design a good academic and co-curricular package for a standard secondary scho

Where Senegal, Togo Ghana , Cameroun, Ecowas, etc. must come to trade, no matter the situation of the roads. Before few Africans knew the functions of a bank, who established the first African bank which made it possible for these wandering traders to qualify for soft loans?