By Ben Agande  ABUJA — There was an increased security presence at the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, headquarters in Abuja yesterday as a detachment of armed policemen was deployed in the commission and visitors were subjected to thorough screening before being allowed in. Though reasons for the increased police presence are unknown, Vanguard gathered […]

By Henry Umoru ABUJA — THE national    leadership of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday urged its major opposition party, the Action Congress, AC, to mind its business in addressing its problems rather than interfere in the internal affairs of the ruling party, the PDP. Speaking with journalists in Abuja yesterday, the PDP National Publicity […]

By Taye Obateru Jos — Five members of   the special task force maintaining peace in Plateau State, known as Operation Safe Haven, are to be court-martialed for various alleged offences including negligent use of fire arms, assault and acts contrary to their professional code. Inaugurating the General Court Martial at the Maxwel Kobe Cantonment Rukuba, […]

Panic and anxiety have gripped the residents of all the major towns and villages in Ekiti State as the election petition tribunal delivers its judgement today on the 24 April 2009 governorship re-run election even as the state government has warned all the people of the state to be law abiding and remain peaceful during and after today’s judgement.

Action Congress, AC, yesterday, condemned the bomb blast that rocked Yenagoa, the state capital, describing the action as a threat to security of lives and property.

By Enyim Enyim  ONITSHA—The 20  lawmakers in the Anambra State House of Assembly, pushing for the impeachment of the Speaker and his Dputy, Chief Anayo Nebe and Afam Obi respectively, yesterday advised the embattled Speaker to resign or be humiliated out of office. Rising from an emergency meeting that lasted for hours outside the House […]

The media war waged by radical journalists from the early 1980s provided the impetus and support for civil society organisations to come into being and join in this fight. The haste with which Generals Obasanjo (1979), Babangida (1993), and Abdulsalam Abubakar (1999) either stepped aside or handed over power to civilians is partly credited to the dogged efforts of the radical media, aided by the civil society groups that they encouraged and empowered.

By Inalegwu Shaibu ABUJA—THE Senate  has approved the sum of N350.3 billion for the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, in the 2010 fiscal year. The approval was upon the third reading of the report on the FCT 2010 appropriation bill submitted by the Senate Committee on FCT. Chairman of the Committee, Senator Abubakar Sodangi who […]

Media spokesman to General Ibrahim Babangida, Prince Kassum Afegbua has described as unhealthy, the current campaign in the Christian circle against the presidential ambition of General Babangida on account of his religion. In a statement titled, “PFN, Bishops got it wrong on IBB”, Prince Afegbua argued that it will be counter-productive to drive the politics […]

THE people of Owevwe, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State, have suspended their protest against the state government for its failure to build the community’s road of about 13 kilometres.