Following the death of renown politician, Alhaji Abubakar Rimi, from possible heart failure in the early hours of Easter Monday, as a fallout of an earlier armed robbery operation along the Bauchi-Kano road during which Rimi’s entourage and other travelers were waylaid, the Inspector General of Police, Ogbonna Onovo has ordered a security beef up in Kano and Bauchi states.

Abubakar Rimi’s younger brother Alhaji Sule Sa’a says the Emir of Nasarawa, Dr Hassan Ahmad did advised the late Kano born politician, to cancel the night journey.

I WILL begin this piece by telling a simple story. The dramatis personae, is a self- acclaimed principal actress (not in Nollywood). She doubles as a traditional ruler’s wife. By all human standards, she is a comfortable woman. She is in a well paid job. She has children who are holding their own in varying fields of endeavour. What I will stoutly resist is disclosing her name.

SINCE the end of Anambra governorship election held on February 6 where the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Governor Peter Obi the winner, I have taken my time to read every article or comments written on the outcome of the election.

THE Acting President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, has been urged to be careful with international oil companies as lobbying to ensure that one of their loyalists was appointed Minister of Petroleum.

The first civilian Governor of Kano state, Alhaji Abubakar Muhammadu Rimi died of cardiac arrest last night after running into an armed robbery operation along Darki- Gadar Jana 50 kim north of Kano city, declared the police.

As Nigerians, weekend, joined the rest of the World to mark this year’s World Autism Day, WAAD, governments at all levels have been urged to urgently set up an action committee that will study autism for a policy, service, health and educational purposes.

Alhaji Abubakar Rimi, former governor of Kano State and former presidential aspirant is dead. He died last night from shock he received after an armed robbery incident.

ACTING President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan is set to sign into law a Bill on the Nigerian Content in the Oil and Gas sector.

The Acting President, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has urged Nigerians to put in extra effort to effect the desired change the country needs politically, economically and socially.

By Chinyere Amalu ABUJA—The Catholic Archbishop of Abuja. Most. Rev. John Oniyekan has described as “surface scratching “the Federal Government’s effort in addressing recurring Jos crisis, stressing that until its root causes are dealt with, there may never be a solution to it. The Archbishop in an exclusive interview with Vanguard said, there was more […]

The Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity has expressed concern over threat by federal employees to embark on an industrial action from April 8, if there was no official pronouncement on increase in their salaries.

…resigns as SSA to Oni By Gbenga Ariyibi ADO-EKITI—The former Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Mr. Olusola Omolayo, has dumped the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and defected  to the opposition Action Congress, AC, saying his future and that of his supporters cannot be guaranteed by the PDP. With his defection to […]

Former Managing Director of Bank PHB, Mr Francis Atuche, has appealed against a ruling of a Federal High Court in Lagos, which refused to quash the charge against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

LAGOS—The Action Congress, AC, has asked Acting President, Goodluck Jonathan to urgently issue a road-map on the direction of his administration to serve as a guide for those to be sworn in as Ministers this week. In a statement in Lagos yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said unless that […]