The body language of our people cannot be fully relayed in words. When they tell you something you ought to have done and you fail or refuse to do it and the come later comes to become, they look you in the face, put both hands on their faces with two fingers ready to produce a message, run the fingers from under the eyes to the chin. Some times they will mouth the invective “iyo” (pronounced i-yaw). No other sound follows, but the message is clear.

LAPO Microfinance Bank Ltd has adopted sixprinciples to protect clients.Godwin Ehigiamusoe, the firm’s Managing

By Yemisi SULEIMAN Powerful reds have made a huge impact this year. You’ll find them in ruffled  blouses, sumptuous glittery mini dresses,  evening dresses and suits all in a bright and unforgiving red. This colour of  passion, aggression and power is unforgettable and loved by all men. Good news is that red is one of […]

* How suspects tried to beat security As the nation awaits the resolution of the riddles surrounding the illegal importation of the large cache of arms and ammunition including rockets through the Apapa Ports in  July, more damning and frightening details continue to ooze out from security sources about the arms import. Sunday Vanguard reliably […]

Prints and patterns make fashion fun. But, wearing busy fabrics and having it look good takes having an eye. These clothes can make true fashion statements and are great conversation starters if worn in the right way. Learn how to wear prints and Ankara patterns, which Nigerian designers now design with such avid creativity, that you wonder if the fabric is a new invention. Vlisco’s new collection has taken the Ankara a notch higher with the introduction of Ankara- lace combo and the leather with a dash of Ankara. . Divine collection appropriately called ” the gallery of poems collection.”

A chieftain of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, in the North, Alhaji Suleiman Yerima, has debunked insinuations that President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was going to withdraw from contesting next year’s presidential election, saying that nobody can intimidate the president out of the race.

NATIONAL Chairman of All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, yesterday, in Benin City, urged Nigerians to prevail on their representatives in the National Assembly not to recognise the staggering of elections as proposed by INEC, saying that it is not healthy for the country.

IMO people virtually emptied into the Dan Anyiam Stadium Complex, Owerri, yesterday, as Governor Ikedi Ohakim publicly declared his intention to run for a second term in office.

Die-hard smugglers have again killed a Customs officer while two other officers sustained serious injuries on Thursday at Idiroko border, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has reported.

A governorship aspirant in Delta State, Chief Ovie Omo-Agege, yesterday, registered with the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, after decamping from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, last Monday.

Former Bayelsa State Commissioner for Sports, Elder Bethel Amabebe, was, Friday night, killed in an auto-crash along the Amassoma road in the Southern Ijaw local government area of the state.

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, at the weekend, reviewed the ongoing campaigns of the presidential aspirants in the country and said that what Nigerians want is issue driven campaign and not bickering.

After several weeks of consultations, the committee set up by the Northern Political Leaders Forum, NPLF, to choose a consensus candidate from amongst former military President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, serial National Security Adviser, General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau (rtd) and Kwara State Governor, Bukola Abubakar Saraki, is expected to finally announce its choice this week – barring any last minute disequilibrium. Therefore, this report takes you through the bumpy road to picking that candidate and why the assignment was not a tea party.

This is a report on how the Nigerian factor turned the Nigeria Governors’ Forum into a needlessly politicised group of state governors whose interests do not negotiate any tangent with the founding ideals of the Forum. But the report concludes that as things begin to get worse, it would become better with the recent discordant tunes from the Forum.

IN spite of the bloody clash that greeted the campaign of the former Governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja and other notable chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party against the re-election of Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala, in Ogbomoso, they still insisted the outing was successful.