MIXED reactions have trailed Governor Martin Elechi’s receipt of an award as the best governor on road construction by a group known as Builtcraft in conjunction with the Federal Ministry of Transport, with opposition parties and other groups faulting the award that the governor received in Lagos, weekend.

SENATOR Annie Okonkwo, representing Anambra Central Senatorial District in the Senate, has denied a newspaper report (not Vanguard) that he had concluded plans to dump the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, for purposes of contesting next year’s election, saying he remained a committed member of PDP.

THE Federation Account Allocation Committee, FAAC, has distributed N704.27 billion to the three tiers of government for the month of July. This is 2.2 per cent lower than what was shared out the previous month, the Accountant General of the Federation, Ibrahim Dankwambo, said weekend.

By Kenneth Ehigiator Management of Federal College of Chemical and Leather Technology, FCCTL, Zaria, Kaduna State, has appealed to the Federal Government to change the institution’s name to reflect its mandate, saying the present nomenclature was denying it of the desired allocations for research and capital projects. The management said the college could only draw […]

THE uneasy calm in Patani Local Government Area of Delta State assumed a new dimension last weekend as four persons were apprehended by the Police at Ughelli for allegedly attempting to alter some financial documents belonging to the council.

THE authorities of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons, NAPTIP, have concluded plans to prosecute three Nigerians who were recently arrested by Marine police in Akwa Ibom State, while attempting to traffic 55 citizens of Benin Republic, Burkina Faso and Togo to Gabon, to Europe for prostitution.

It was a black Sunday for several families in Lagos as no fewer than 40 persons perished in a multiple auto crash that occurred at a police check point on a bridge at Berger area on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

“ After work one day, my boss’s nephew told me oga had guns in his bedroom during discussion. Typical of me, I like seeing before believing. So, one of the days I was cleaning my boss’s bedroom, I started searching for the pistol. In the process, I found one big gun under his bed. Not done with the search I continued until I found a pistol in his drawer. Having satisfied my curiosity, I left

A pressure group, the Movement of True Democrats of Nigeria, MTDN, has called on those emphasizing the issue of zoning arrangement of political offices in the country to desist from such, saying it amounts to distraction of President Goodluck Jonathan’s government from delivering the dividends of democracy to the electorate.

PRESIDENT, Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor and the Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, His Eminence Anthony Cardinal Okogie have called on Muslims in the country to use the occasion of this year’s Ramadan fast to rededicate themselves to the service of Allah and humanity.

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State under the leadership of Governor Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala has been commended for its vision, steadfastness and record support for the campaign for President Goodluck Jonathan to stay in power beyond 2011 which scaled a major hurdle with the clearing of the president to contest next year’s presidential election by the National Executive Council (NEC) of the PDP last Thursday .

A BOOK proposing a new economic philosophy capable of bailing Nigeria and indeed the world out of the current global downturn was presented to the public in Lagos recently. Titled Global Joseph Project, the book written by Peter Alexander Egom is a 5-chapter work.

When you go to a car shop, there are all kinds of cars carrying all kinds of cost. You pay for the one you
are willing to acquire, and then you take it home as your car.

No fewer than ten directors in the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, may be asked to leave this month under the proposed reforms of the National Chairman of the Commission, Professor Attahiru Jega.

Former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Alfa Belgore, is advocating a national conference on civil procedure as part of the strategy to achieve speedy trial of cases. “The idea that an election petition will remain in court for whole three years after has proved totally unacceptable”, he said at the 5th Distinguished Annual Lecture Series organized by the Delta State House of Assembly Service Commission.