BY  SIMON EBEGBULEM FORMER chief whip of the Senate, Senator Rowland Owie, says it will be     completely out of place for the Federal Government to build the proposed Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) in Kaduna now that the nation is experiencing a serious crisis in the Niger Delta. He, therefore, wants President Umaru Yar’Adua not to […]

BY JIDE AJANI PRESIDENT Umar MusaYar’Adua has reached out to governors in the opposition political party in oil producing states pursuant to actualizing his resolve to end the restiveness in the oil-rich region, Sunday Vanguard can reveal. One of the ways Yar’Adua is going about this is by conceding the nomination of members to the […]

*Soldiers looted, sold my television — Chief Ekpebide By EMMA AMAIZE Warri-THE Presidential Committee on Amnesty plans to dispatch psychiatrists, psychologists and doctors to the various rehabilitation camps it is setting up in the Niger-Delta for militants who are willing to accept amnesty  because it believes some of them are on drugs and may have  […]

“We are dealing with a very dangerous situation. Getting experts and equipment into the country would take several weeks for the process to complete”, he said. “We are dealing with a life threatening situation as his two kidneys may pack up any moment from now.

By  EMMA AMAIZE NIGER-DELTA elders,  today,  at a meeting in Warri, Delta State, gave four conditions that should be met by the Federal Government for its peace process on the Niger-Delta, including amnesty for militants to work. They, however, volunteered to set up a contact group to liaise with all the militant groups with a […]

By FUNMI KOMOLAFE & SHUAIBU INALEGWU SENATOR Adamu Galba Talba and the general secretary of the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, MHWUN, Comrade Marcus Omokhuale, have disagreed over the Senate decision to slash the education and health budgets of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, to fund road projects. The Senate had last Wednesday […]

If you watch his videos again, you’ll find out that the quality of some of his videos is better than many of the ones we even try to shoot today. He was a very unusual person. It looks like he saw the future.

THE Presbyterian Church of Nigeria has  expressed disappointment at the little gains of 10 years of democracy in the country, saying Nigerians have witnessed near collapse, rather than development of the nation’s socio-economic infrastructure. The church noted, with dismay, the abject decay in the nation’s rail, road and water transportation network, electricity and water supply, […]

By Austin Ogwuda NINE of the 14-member legislative arm of Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State have signed the notice of  impeachment of the council chairman, Emmanuel Sorokwu. However, the leader of the legislative arm of the council, Pius Eziashi, representing Ward 14 who is one the nine councillors that signed the impeachment […]

FEDERAL Medical Centre, Bida has been approved by the National Open University   of Nigeria (NOUN) to provide a sustainable medium for a bachelor’s degree training in nursing. Disclosing this as part of his achievements during the Annual Health Week, aimed at renewing the effort of quality health care delivery on a holistic basis, chief […]

By LEKE ADESERI with agency reports TWO people suspected to be Nigerians, Helen Udoaka, 34, and her three-week-old daughter, Michelle, were among the six people that lost their lives in the tower block fire that occurred in London at the weekend. Five of the six victims who perished when a blaze ripped through their tower […]

If you don’t know, or may want to confirm what you already know, Turkey is one of the world’s greatest tourist attractions in modern times. Besides its historical past that was rich in diversity of civilisations, modern Turkey magnificently stands out as the melting point between the Western and Eastern cultures that appear to be […]

*As ex-Anambra gov is buried By Tony Edike THE demise of the former civilian governor of old Anambra State, Chief Christian Chukwuma Onoh, was, indeed, a great loss to many, but to his tenants who occupy his massive estates scattered across the country, his exit was more painful and it is feared that they may […]

I met him when he was still a boy. I was 30 years old then while he was 31 and, immediately thereafter, we got married.

*Captain of Nigerian ship tells the story of kidnap by pirates, ordeal and release For the 10 Nigerians who returned home two weeks ago after 303 days in   the custody of Somali pirates, the agony they went through is unlikely to go  soon.  In this interview, the ship captain, Graham Egbegi, recounts what they went […]