REMEMBER that petite Assemblies of God Church cleric, Rev. Yakubu Pam who was at the receiving end of President Olusegun Obasanjo tongue lashing when the Jos crisis broke out in May 2004.

A proposal by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to redraw senatorial and federal constituencies across the country is raising strong anxiety among legislators.

The Director General of the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC) Otunba Olusegun Runsewe has said that the World Cup taking place in Africa will help broaden the market for tourism which has immense potential to create jobs, directly and indirectly. He re-iterated the country’s support for the success of the competition taking place in South Africa.

As condemnations continue to trail last Sundays massacre of hundreds of people in Dogon Nahawa and other villages in Shen area of Plateau State, more facts are emerging on how the attackers launched the apparently well-planned operation. A community leader in the area, Mr. Rwang Chuwang told Saturday Vanguard that at least one of the attackers was identified as a young man who grew up in the area before they relocated.

Last month, a Non-Governmental Organization, (NGO), Hope for Niger-Delta Campaign (HNDC), in a two-day confab, dubbed, aHH“Niger-Delta Peace Consolidation Conference” chose The Hague, Netherlands, for the international summit.

THE killing of a staff of the Akure South Local government Dayo Adeola by a mobile policeman in Akure Friday sparked off protest by the state Chapter, Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) who called for his trial.

Onovo said while addressing officers and men at the police headquarters in Jos Friday that the police should be alert to discover violence before they occur and work with other security forces to nip them in the bud.

THE Federal Government has ordered probe into allegations of Army complicity in the recent Jos killings.

For the second time (last weekend) in three short months the city of Jos, Plateau State capital, had experienced calamitous events around it that its people are far much worse than traumatised; they must be feeling dehumanised; and every other sane Nigerian with them must feel hard done by. We are disgraced, scandalised and made to feel like part of a brutish kingdom dominated by modern day cannibals.

By Folake Aina I keep telling you that as a woman, you have the strongest and most powerful weapons on your inside to rule the world. You don’t believe me? Haven’t you noticed how this one woman  almost took over a whole nation, and would have thought she was actually elected in that office. A […]