The persistent conflict in the Niger Delta has been blamed on the federal government’s inability or unwillingness to study and implement recommendations in the reports handed over to it over the years.

WORRIED by the rate of death caused by commercial motorcycles popularly known as Okada, the Ondo State government may ban them from transporting pregnant mothers and under-aged children in the State.

GOVERNOR Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State has told the new General Officer Commanding, 2 Mechanised Division, Nigeria Army, Ibadan, Brig.-Gen. Muhammed Abubakar to regard activities of members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, near the barrack as illegal.

FORMER Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Rowland Owie has appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan not to be “stampeded” into merging the Nigeria Police and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, as being canvassed in some quarters.

AN aide to Governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike, has said he has no case to answer with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

By John Ighodaro CALABAR—The Cross River State Government, has ordered the arrest and detention of Boje chiefs, three days after the communal clash between the Nsadop and Boje communities in Boki Local Government Area  broke out in the state. The state government, has also asked for the withdrawal of the chiefs’ certificates of recognition as […]

Nigerian Theatre has remained a myth, or at best, a mirage. We saw it coming, then it was not there. Truly Nigerian Theatre died with the Rat Race, poverty and lack of education will not allow Theatre to take root in Nigeria especially after independence.

THERE is no gainsaying the fact that workers have been the worst victims of economic crisis across the globe with countries like Nigeria rather than implement policies to reverse the trend, are dogmatically implementing policies that compound the woes of workers.

THE Military Pension Board, MPB, has dismissed the claims by a cross section of ex-servicemen that it was given N70 billion by the Federal Government to pay their arrears, including 12.5% and 15% salary-increase arrears which they alleged were either partially paid or not paid at all.

General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of the club, Chief Fan Ndubuoke who gave the order in Owerri on Monday, also directed that a youth feeder team made up of players between the ages of 15 and 18 be instituted immediately.

The minister of sports and chairman national sports commission, Ibrahim Isa Bio has said he has lost contact with embattled Nigerian CAF and FIFA executive committee member, Dr Amos Adamu; since he was provisionally suspended by the world football governing body over the alleged cash for vote scandal.

Education stakeholders under the auspices of Ikorodu Division Human Resource Development Board brain stormed recently on modality of finding lasting solution to the causes of the abysmal failures of our children and wards in their examinations.

Senator Abubakar Atiku Bagudu is Chairman Senate Committee on Education. In this interview with Vanguard Education Weekly Bagudu says tertiary institutions should be given freedom to develop at their own pace just as he discloses that President Goodluck Jonathan is setting up a task force among other issues, to return about eight million children out of school to classrooms.

SENATOR Stella Unuezi Omu, OON, mni, is a retired Deputy Comptroller-General of Prisons, a former Chief Whip of the 1st Senate of the 4th Republic (1999 – 2003) and a member of the Board of Trustees of the PDP.

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Tuesday, carried out a successful Search and Rescue Operation at Okun Alpha Community in Owode village, Alpha Beach, Lekki Lagos which was ravaged by a surge from the Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of the morning.