By Daniel Idonor ABUJA—THE Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday ordered an immediate end to the series of congratulatory advert placements in some national dailies, warning against the use of public funds on such an extravagant enterprise. He asked Nigerians to stop placing congratulatory adverts in the media over his assumption of office as Acting […]

By Innocent Anaba LAGOS—Former chairman of the Intercontinental Bank Plc, Chief Raymond Obieri, and six other former Directors of the Bank, who are facing corrupt charges preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, have challenged the amended charge brought against them by the […]

By Henry Umoru & Emma Ovuakporie ABUJA—A group, Anambra Rebirth Coalition, said yesterday that 2011 general elections will not be feasible if the present leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,  was left to conduct it, just as it called for the sack of Professor Maurice Iwu. Addressing newsmen in Abuja yesterday, the Coordinator […]

By Emeka Mamah Kaduna — A Chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Abubakar Girei, has advised the Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, to work hard within the few months he will act for President Umaru Yar’Adua to ensure that he becomes the party’s candidate in 2011. Girei said Nigerians and the North in […]

By Emeka Mamah Katsina—Former Inspector General of Police and Sardauna Katsina, Alhaji Ibrahim Coommassie has urged the Federal Government not only to equip but pay policemen in the country handsomely to reduce corruption in the organization if it is serious with fighting graft in the society. Coomassie who spoke in an interview with newsmen in […]

By Victor Ahiuma-Young ABUJA—RADIO, Television, Theatre and Arts Workers Union of Nigeria, RATTAWU, has issued a 21-day ultimatum to government to set up a  negotiating Committee for a new salary structure for members, failing which members would begin an indefinite strike. Vanguard gathered that the ultimatum had been issued since  February 3, 2010, by leaders […]

The Federal Government has been urged to release money owed the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to enable it discharge its responsibilities effectively in the region. Making the appeal in Port Harcourt , Chairman, Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, South-South and South-East chapters, Alhaji Musa Saidu, said there was need to encourage the Commission financially so that it would contribute meaningfully towards addressing the challenges of underdevelopment and poverty in the region.

THERE were indications, yesterday, that the National Chairman of the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor and other members of the National Working Committee were yet to see ailing President Umaru Yar’adua, six days after they left the country for Saudi Arabia.

THE election to choose the nation’s next President is to be held as early as November this year, under proposals separately articulated by the Senate and House of Representatives committees on the review of the constitution.

IT was many hours after the actual event, precisely at the very hours the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria broadcasts its flagship news at 7 in the morning, that I would hear the maiden broadcast of Goodluck Jonathan, the Acting President.

CHIEF Michael Kaase Aondoakaa, former Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation would require sometime to comprehend his descent from the summit of his political sphere to a tiny place where he is meant to be forgotten quickly.

MINISTERS and other cabinet members who have hitherto been relaxing or simply not delivery on their mandates, since ailing President Yar’Adua left for medical treatment, have been warned by Acting President Goodluck Jonathan to either resume serious work or be shown the way out.

IN Matthew Holden’s(JR.), The White Man’s Burden, he addressed a question asked by St. Clair Drake, a Black American of West Indian background, an Africanist, urban sociology and anthropologist, the author of the tome titled Black Metropolis: “Why is not the United States more like South Africa”.

A socio-political pressure group, Community Watch of Nigeria, has called on Nigerians to rally round Acting President Goodluck Jonathan for him to succeed in his new role in the nation’s polity just as it prayed for President Umaru Yar’Adua’s speedy recovery so he can return to his seat of governance.

This year’s National Sports Festival tagged Garden City Games will be used to celebrate Nigeria’s 50 years of nationhood, Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, has declared.