By Victor Ahiuma-Young LOKOJA —NATIONAL Union of Chemical, Footwear, Rubber, Leather and Non-Metallic Products Employees (NUCFRANMPE) has petitioned the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode, over alleged unfair labour practices of the management of Obajana Cement Company Plc, especially anti-union policy. In a petition by the National Secretary of the union, Comrade Matthew […]

Former First Lady, Mrs Maryam Babangida, yesterday said she is alive and kicking.
She spoke to Vanguard on phone allaying the fears that she was dead.

*State exco vows not to handover to caretaker c’ttee By  Henry Umoru ABUJA—THE sacked State Executive of the Anambra State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) has vowed to remain in office, just as the members of the exco had said that they would not hand over to the Dr.Osita Ogbu’s led Caretaker Committee. According […]

By  Anayo Okoli Umuahia—A PDP Chieftain in Abia State, Chief Benjamin Apugo has lashed at the Senator Ike Nwachkwu Peace Committee of the party for refusing to visit Abia State, despite a petition on the crisis in the state lodged before the Committee. Apugo accused the Committee of insincerity and selective treatment. Apugo, a board […]

EDO State Governor Adams Oshiomhole argued yesterday that if states must improve on their internally-generated revenue (IGR), they must be able to provide good governance.

By  Peter Duru MAKURDI — A former Senator  who represented Benue North-West in the National Assembly, Senator Fred Orti and a People’s Democratic Party PDP bigwig in Benue State, Chief Simon Joseph Akure, weekend, escaped death by the whiskers when a boat they were traveling with capsized in the middle of River Katsina-Ala, in Benue […]

By Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI—The Imo State Government has denied rumours that it   is bankrupt. The Special Adviser to the State Governor on Revenue Generation, Mobilization and Account Monitoring, Deacon Kerian Onwuzuruike, said this in Owerri. Speaking to Vanguard , he said “contrary to speculations making the rounds in and outside the state, Imo State is […]

The flaw in British handover to North By  Sir Olaniwun Ajayi Political Power Imbalance “ON their (the British) departure, the plants of public order were in the process of being choked by weeds of insensate intolerance, the forces of progress were deliberately subordinated to the dead-weight of decadence and unsophisticated reaction/ native tyranny was enthroned […]

DELTA State Governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan, has urged all oil companies operating in the Niger Delta to, as matter of urgency, relocate their headquarters to the region if the area must witness meaningful development.
He also called on the people of the state to ensure that they collect their tax certificates.

By Dennis Agbo ABAKALIKI— THE Senate has asked President Umaru Yar’Adua to award contracts and commence work on the proposed second Niger bridge, which it said N4billion was budgeted for in the 2009 budget. The Senate said it was alarmed that the bridge has remained in danger and at the brick of collapse, wondering why […]

It was always going to be problematic. That much was certain- from the moment the Federal Government made its offer of ‘amnesty’ to those we’re now obliged to call former militants of the Niger Delta. How, some had asked, do you give amnesty to an individual never found guilty of a crime?

Death penalty is the solution to the menace of kidnapping, Delta Deputy Governor, Prof. Amos Utuama, has said.

A UNITED STATES-based Nigerian medical practitioner, Dr. Kenneth Oyarebu, was weekend kidnapped in South-Ibie in Estasko-West Local Government Area of Edo State.

THE dream of every Nigerian to have full access to comprehensive healthcare services through a realistic social health insurance scheme is set to be realised as soon as the amended Act of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is approved.

A PROMINENT member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, Mr. Victor Osarenren, has called on the National Executive Committee of the party to set the necessary machinery in motion to rescue the party in the state from the abyss.