BY SIMON EBEGBULEM THE bank manager of a first generation bank in Benin, was yesterday abducted by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers. Sunday Vanguard learnt that the bank manager was abducted in front of his residence at Airport Road, and taken to an unknown destination.

BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME AFRICAN Renaissance party has called on the federal government to implement true federalism as a lasting solution to incessant conflicts in the Niger Delta region. Speaking in Port Harcourt, national Publicity secretary of the party, Chief Omenazu Johnson said under the arrangement, the region should allowed to control fifty percent of its […]

* More contracts for generation, transmission and distribution * Foreign  investors coming to utilise coal for generation By Jide Ajani The Federal Government plansthe award of more contracts    in the Power Sector in addition to the ones signed last week.  It is also inviting foreign investors to come and utilize the coal deposits in the […]

By Okey Ndiribe & Charles Kumolu ALthough many of the gaily dressed  youths seated inside the hall listened to the guest   lecturer Prof Adebayo Williams  with half attention last Friday in Lagos,  the atmosphere  was nonetheless  melancholic as he went down memory lane to recall tense moments that characterised  the struggle for the actualisation […]

CHIEF Femi Lanlehin is a chieftain of the Action Congress party, AC in Oyo State. In this interview with Sunday Vanguard, the legal luminary cum politician speaks on the significance of June 12 among other issues. Excerpts: THERE have been arguments that June 12 and not May 29 should be regarded as democracy day. From […]

CHIEF Sunbo Onitiri is a chieftain of the Peoples democratic Party,PDP, in this interview with Sunday Politics, he lamented that the federal government is yet to make June 12 a national holiday. Onitiri, who was a senatorial candidate of PDP in 2007 elections, declared that Chief M.K.O Abiola is supposed to be honoured by past […]

By Bishop David Oyedepo Last week, I brought you a teaching on the major profits of God’s Word, where I showed you the importance of God’s Word in fulfilling destiny. This week, I want to show you the nutritional contents of God’s Word and the weapons in the Word.

By Sam Eyoboka THE seventh edition of the Apostle Joseph Ayo Babalola Power Explosion holds at the Ori Oke Aanu Praying Ground, Osun State, between June 22 and 26, 2009 with the theme “A new Heaven and a new Earth.”

By Sam Eyoboka REVEREND (Mrs.) Sarah Adama, general overseer of Hope of Believers Ministries, Ankpa in Kogi State was born in 1962 at Ankpa by a Christian father, and a  Muslim mother. She was trained to be a tailor or what you may call a fashion designer, but God had a better vocation for her. […]

By Bunmi Sofola FOR the first time in months, since she left home, Fausat was able to call on a visit. She was like a stranger in the house she couldn’t wait to shake the dust off so many months ago. Her parents were their relaxed selves, her siblings were all over the place, laughing, […]

Profit-taking activities by investors in the Nigerian capital market for the most part of last week, accounted for a dip in the value of quoted securities in the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), as the total value of listed equities dropped last week by N72.98 billion.

Two centers will this afternoon attract a lot of attention as the Globacom Premier League comes to a befitting end today. They are Minna Stadium, venue of the Niger Tornadoes / Heartland match and the Oleh Stadium which is most likely to produce 2009 Glo Premier League winners will see league leaders Bayelsa United take on Warri Wolves FC.

If Amanze Uchegbulam is bold enough let him take me to court, I’ll meet him there and I swear I’ll strip him ‘naked’ and his wife will divorce him”, was the statement of Alhaji Ahmed Gara-Gombe, former Gombe State Football Association chairman on learing that Uchegbulam wants to sue him for accusing him (Uchegbulam) of challenging President Yar’Adua on the Task Force.

After the 3-0 defeat of Kenya in Abuja, former Eagles forward, Bathlomew Ogbeche believes the team is
on course to pick the group’s ticket over Tunisia.

Following the decision of the National Sports Commission (NSC) to concession some sports to individuals and corporate organisations, Scrabble management in the country has been concessioned to Verallen Nigeria Limited.