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.