performance against his team, was quoted as saying that one day, a referee’s corpse will be picked on the field of play.

On the threshold of our golden jubilee, we have a crop of presidential aspirants who are depending on ethnic and sectional calculations for their winning the race.

Those who argued about the injustice of people improperly elected assuming offices, benefitting from the spoils of the office until a court annuls the election, had expected that elections held four months to the handover date would provide enough time to dispose of cases at the tribunals.

FORMER Senate Chief Whip, Senator Rowland Owie, weekend, described as ill motivated, the call by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for the extension of the 2011 general elections. He called on the National Assembly not to approve the extension.

Delta State Government has denied insinuations by Chief Kenneth Gbagi, Minister of State for Education, whose country home was recently invaded by a combined team of soldiers and policemen, that Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan was behind the attack.

Your editorial of September 24th 2010 titled: “The Balewa Saga” raised some interesting issues and frankly amused me. This was especially so when the writer asserted that “at five” I “was too young to have known what happened” and that I am relying on what my father told me “to refute Mbu’s story”.

ABIA State politics is gradually gaining momentum with the immediate past deputy governor of the state, Comrade Chris Akomas, picking governorship form on the ticket of Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, to challenge his former boss, Governor Theodore Orji.

Hi Readers! Do know that feeling of deflation you have, when on rushing home to report to your mother a clever thing you’ve done, and you meet a blank stare from her, indicating that what you considered ‘being clever’ was actually an act of stupidity? That was how I felt when I got home and told nanny of my encounter with Belinda in the office in Ikeja.

Nigeria celebrates half a century of independence today. In an individuals life, that would be 50 years of growth from a toddler through adolescence into adulthood and then maturity. That is the so-called “golden jubilee’ at which success or progress is measured and celebrated. But for Nigeria as a country, it is not clear what we are celebrating today; is it success, progress or maturity?

Both the Federal and State governments are splitting hairs over their lean resources but Vanguard can confirm that contrary to cries of insolvency by state governors and Federal Government officials, fiscal indiscipline and profligacy constituted the biggest threat to the 2011 elections and the economy in general.

By Emma Amaize WARRI—TENSION heightened in Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta State, weekend, following a bungled attempt to wrestle the chairmanship seat from Chief Peter Nwaoboshi. Chief Nwaoboshi, who is the party state chairman,  has been engaged in a supremacy battle for many months running  with the Delta Elders, Leaders and Stakeholders Forum, led […]

Governor Chibuike Amaechi has enjoined security operatives in the state to take steps to consolidate the peace and security now existing in the state.

THE people of Ndokwaland, Delta State, have thrown their weight behind the candidacy of former Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Dr. Olisa Imegwu, who is aspiring for the House of Representatives seat in the 2011 elections.

If there were to be a contest between all known deadly human disorders, malaria would qualify to compete in the heavyweight championship category because it possesses the appropriate credentials.

ABOUT 3,000 qualified ministers of God will be contesting for the position of the General Superintendent of the Assemblies of God Nigeria in November when the incumbent, Rev. Charles Osueke, is billed to retire.