THE recently released 2005 oil and gas audit report has indicted Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) and the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) over lack of transparency in their activities in 2005, even as it also recommends the NDDC for proper investigation.

By  Peter Duru MAKURDI — THE Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has decried what it described as the Benue State Government’s deliberate deduction of excessive taxes from the salaries of workers in the state service. Labour urged the state government to streamline its tax system to check cases of double taxation and excess deduction which has […]

KANO — The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Dr. Ado Bayero, has conferred on the Governor of Kano State, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, the title of Sardaunan Kano with immediate effect. A statement by the Governor’s Senior Special Assistant Media and Public Relations, Mallam Yau Sule Yau, said a date would soon be announced for the turbaning […]

By Luka Binniyat KAFANCHAN –  The Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) Vice-Admiral Iko Ibrahim, has backed the clamour for the return of former missionary Schools taken over by most Northern States Governments in the early seventies, returned to their original owners. The President of Kagoro Secondary Old Boys Asspociation (KASSOBA), Mr. Joshua Maikori had made […]

By Chinyere Amalu ABUJA— As part of the Federal Government’s efforts to reverse the ugly trend in the maternal and child health, not less than 64 midwives have been deployed to four area councils in FCT. Also in order to facilitate the attainment of MDGs 4 and 5, under Midwives Service Scheme, 2,488 midwives have […]

An anti-riot police squad weekend scuttled the joy of a newly married couple and their entire family when one of the policemen shot and killed the father of the bride, a septuagenarian simply identified as Jacob Odedeji over N20.

By Dennis Agbo ABAKALIKI—A Non-Governmental Organization, Sunshine foundation for the less privileged, has distributed clothes worth thousands of Naira to over 2000 less privileged children living at Umuezebi, a cluster suburb in New Haven, Enugu. Speaking to Vanguard shortly after sharing the clothes, Chairman of the NGO, Mr. Sunshine Onyekwere, said the vision of the […]

President Umaru Yar’Adua is expected to be the special guest of honour at the Transparency of Nigeria Award in which the First Lady, Hajia Turai Yar’Adua, is slated for an award.

By Tony Edike ENUGU—PROPERTY worth about N100 million belonging to Glotor Nigeria Limited, owned by renowned auto dealer, Mr. Arthur Orakpo, was demolished on the orders of Enugu State government at the weekend for allegedly encroaching on the water buffer zone of Asaba River bank. The property, which included two one-storey buildings, security house and […]

By Henry Umoru ABUJA—DANIEL Nzelu Foundation at the weekend made a donation of N2 million to four orphanage homes in Abuja, just as the foundation has called on the federal government and the private sector to initiate steps that would help support the less privileged people. Speaking to journalists shortly after disbursing food items valued […]

By Henry Umoru ABUJA—MINISTER of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), Senator Muhammad Adamu Aliero said weekend that arrangements have been concluded where residents in the territory would withhold their waste and sell them to the highest bidder. Speaking during an unscheduled inspection of some districts in the Federal Capital City (FCC), Abuja to assess […]

By Chinyere Amalu ABUJA—The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC), Mr. John Kennedy Okpara, has advised successful medical personnel who will be attached to Christian pilgrims for this year’s holy pilgrimages to Israel and Rome to withdraw from the exercise if their interest is on estacodes, as the exercise is purely a spiritual one. […]

By Abdulwahab Abdulah LAGOS—The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has said it call on the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee (LPPC) to address the controversies trailing the appointment of lawyers into the rank of the Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN) is sancosant. The national officers of the association, at a meeting in Kaduna, recently, said it is […]

By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA—A non-governmental organisation operating under the aegis of The Right to Know (R2K) Movement has described as worrying the surreptitious attempts by some members of the National Assembly to kill the Freedom of Information Bill. The organisation wants Nigerians to demand from the lawmakers what they intended to gain by frustrating the […]

By Kenneth Ehigiator LAGOS—The Federal Government has injected over N7 billion for the provision of facilities for effective delivery of air navigation services by Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), as part of measures to make the nation’s airspace safer. Among projects already approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) are the Total VHF Radio coverage […]