By Ebun Babalola Recently,  a group of human right activists comprising of over 50 people asked  the President to resign and hand over power to the Vice President, Goodluck Jonathan.

By Philips Adefioye The Nigeria Football  Federation, NFF, has been urged to consider former Super Eagles captain and present chief coach of Mali, Stephen Keshi to tinker the team to the 2010 World Cup while Shaibu Amodu should be stepped up as the Team Manager instead of hiring a foreign coach. Former Gombe State Football […]

By Philips  Adefioye Nigeria’s tortuous   qualification to the 2010 World Cup has been described as a miracle by former President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, AFN, Dan Ngerem. Ngerem told Saturday Vanguard sports in an interview that the qualification wasn’t based on the team’s performance but by the grace of God. “This is the […]

A Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from conducting re_run elections into the Osun State East Senatorial District and the Osogbo Local Government seat of the State National Assembly slated for December 12, 2009.

The saying that “We are nothing but pencil in the hand of the creator” may not have gained popularity save for Wale Adenuga. 

Recently, about ten Nigerian newspapers reported a press statement believed to have been signed by more than 50 public figures, calling on Yar’Adua to resign immediately or allow a medical panel to confirm his fitness to govern. The press statement asked Umaru Yar’Adua to “immediately and unconditionally hand over to the Vice-President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan to complete the current term of office.” As Acting President, the 50 signatories said Jonathan should then conduct the next general elections on the basis of the report of the electoral reform committee headed by Justice Mohammed Lawal Uwais. This statement came despite report citing Nigerian officials in Saudi Arabia that Yar’Adua was now out of intensive care and is recuperating.

The Controller General of the Nigeria Prison Service, Mr. Olushola Adigun, yesterday, in Lagos denied providing preferential treatment to the convicted former Chairman of the Nigeria Port Authority (NPA), Chief Olabode George and his associates, who are currently serving a two and half years jail term each at the Kirirkiri Maximum Security Prison in Lagos.

The nation’s political atmosphere is heating up unnecessarily over the issue of President Yar’Adua’s ill-health. This is putting the entire question into a negative perspective altogether.

Is there any way that we women can ‘corner’ this weeks article and prevent the men from reading it since we have all discovered this column has most men’s favorite column. This week, I really want to address women. This is we, coming together as women and telling ourselves the truth. We owe that to each other.

An attempt by the revenge coup perpetrators to justify the killing of General Aguiyi-Ironsi by linking him with the January 15 failed coup is not accepted by Peter Enahoro’s account. He says that the General was in fact marked down for elimination by If eajuna and that one man that could have exonerated Aguiyi-Ironsi was the Inspector-General of Police, the late Alhaji Kam Salem who the author says telephoned the military commander to inform him that the police were reporting usual troop movements in Lagos.

It is said that the Special Adviser on Information and Strategic to the Lagos State Government, Mr. Segun Ayobolu, voluntarily withdrew his services on grounds of ill-health earlier this week. It warms the cockles of my heart that he is a kindred spirit, in the sense that he runs a backpage column every month in the Alausa Alert newspaper.

The civil war ended close to 40 years ago and it is sad to realize that we still have landmines, explosives, and all manner of bombs still littering the landscapes in the whole of the South East. The matter is made worse now, not just for the fact that these explosives are there but the fact that even the ones that have been recovered have not been moved out and destroyed

THE Aaron team, a group of negotiators, led by the former Chief of General Staff , Vice Admiral Okhai Mike Akhigbe (rtd), set up by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) to dialogue with the Federal Government with a view to bringing the Niger-Delta crisis to an acceptable end has called for suggestions and advice from Niger-Deltans, Nigerians and friends of Nigeria towards proper execution of the assignment.

There is arguably none in the corridors of power today that may have endured as long as the President of the Senate, Senator (Brig. Gen.) David Mark.

PRESIDING Judge of the Federal High Court Asaba, Justice Marcel Awokulehin, yesterday adjourned ruling again, making it the fourth time on the application by the immediate past governor of Delta state, Chief James Ibori seeking to quash the charges filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)against him.