By Samuel Oyadongha Yenagoa—Bayelsa State Commissioner for Education, Chief Josephine Ezonbodor, has denied insinuation making the rounds that she was arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over alleged financial impropriety. The commissioner, who made the assertion in Yenagoa yesterday, also said N2.332bn had been expended on the payment of bursary […]

By Anayo Okoli Umuahia—A group, Movement for Peace and Development in Niger-Delta, MPDND, has commended the Acting President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan for last week’s dissolution of the federal executive council, saying the action would enable him inject fresh blood and vigour into his administration. The group also condemned the bomb blast in Warri, Delta State,  […]

By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA—Incumbent National Chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor, yesterday stormed a Federal high court sitting in Abuja praying to be joined as a respondent in a suit seeking his probe over serial allegations of graft. Human Rights, Justice and Peace Foundation, an NGO, had approached the court […]

By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA—A Federal high court sitting in Abuja yesterday stayed proceedings, indefinitely, in a suit seeking to oust Imo State Governor, Ikedi Ohiakim from office. The trial high court judge in the case, Justice Adamu Bello, came to the decision in deference to the Supreme Court which is already seized of the facts […]

CRUSADE against illegal bunkering operations in Rivers State, particularly the Ogoni axis of the state assumed an interesting dimension recently when about 813 illegal bunkers gave up the illicit activity.

For about a fortnight now, patrons of Lagos foodstuff markets have been going through harrowing experiences occasioned by the strike embarked upon by suppliers of foodstuff from the northern part of the country. Commodities, such as vegetables, yams, fruits and livestock products have become very scarce and the prices of the little that are available have shot through the roof, sometimes as much as 1,000%.

IT is this impatience with strategies and statecraft that informed the political thinking of our first generation politicians roundly outclassed by the shrewd British independence: Granting politicians with whom they sat to negotiate independence contracts.

By Jimitota Onoyume PORT HARCOURT—The Ogoni have rejected the proposed relocation of Port Harcourt army barracks, otherwise called Bori Camp, to any of their communities. In a statement issued by the United State’s chapter of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, MOSOP – USA, and made available to Vanguard, the Ogoni said […]

DESPITE frantic moves by the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, to beat Acting President Goodluck Jonathan into political line over the composition of the new Executive Council of the Federation, EXCOF, the party appears to be losing out as its input to the expected cabinet was still very scanty, at press time.

ACTING President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday last week finally put the Executive Council of the Federation out of the misery induced by the crisis of confidence that followed the yet unaccounted disappearance of President Umaru Yar’Adua since November last year.