The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Anthony Sani, condoled the family of Alhaji Abubakar Iro Dan- Musa, former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, who died weekend.

FORMER Governor Lamidi Adesina of Oyo State, has advised voters in the state to take note of the current insecurity and perceived bad governance in the state and use it to vote against the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2011 polls.

THE 16 Kingmakers in Akure, Ondo State have solicited support for the newly appointed Deji of Akure, Oba Adebiyi Adesida, just as he commenced the traditional rites expected to last three months.

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.