By Abdulwahab  Abdulah LAGOS — JUSTICE Morenike Obadina of an Ikeja High Court, has sentenced a herbalist, Femi Bamidele, to five years imprisonment for defrauding one  Emeka Marcus of  N968,000 under the pretence of spiritual healing. Apart from the jail term handed down on the convict, the court ordered a restitution of the money defrauded […]

By Peter Duru MAKURDI — A 32-year-old herbal medicine practitioner (names withheld) has been nabbed by men of Benue State Police Command for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old Miss. Nguavese Mtagher-gah. Vanguard gathered that Nguavese had accompanied her grandmother, who was sick, to a herbal home jointly owned by the alleged killer and another […]

By Dennis Agbo AWKA—THE Anambra State commercial city of Onitsha, will today come alive as the Action Congress, AC, stalwarts, including former Vice President Atiku, former and incumbent Governors of Lagos State Aswaju Bola Tinubu, Babatunde Fashola and Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole are expected to mount the podium at All Saints Cathedral Ontisha to […]

…asks Reps to follow suit By Emmanuel Aziken Abuja—  The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, has commended the Senate for its resolution urging President Umaru Yar‘Adua to handover to his deputy and called on the House of Representatives to follow suit. The CNPP in a statement made available to Vanguard yesterday also called on […]

By Patience Ogbodo BAUCHI — FOLLOWING the religious crisis that erupted in some parts of Jos metropolis two weeks ago, over 8,000 victims of the crisis are currently taking refuge in four camps for displaced persons in Bauchi State. The victims, who came into Bauchi with their families are taking refuge in Magama Gumau, Toro, […]

By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA—the Attorney-General of the Federation, Chief Mike Aondoakaa, SAN, yesterday asked a Federal high court sitting in Abuja to dismiss a suit filed by the pioneer Chairman of EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, seeking to void the warrant of arrest issued against him by the Code of Conduct Tribunal sitting in Abuja. Aondoakaa […]

By Emma Amaize WARRI—SOUTH-SOUTH governors have agreed to avoid sentiment and take a position that will unambiguously mirror the mind of the people of the zone when they meet, tomorrow, in Benin-City, Edo State, just as it emerged, yesterday, that an unnamed pro-Yar’Adua group was lobbying them to sit on the fence. It was gathered […]

Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has called for a high-powered Federal Government Commission of Inquiry into the recent Jos religious crisis, noting that “the most disturbing aspect of this regular butchery of innocent citizens is that those responsible are known. Those who incite them are known. Their motives are also known. And yet nothing happens to them.” According […]

By Sam Eyoboka, Etop Ekanem, Dapo Akinrefon & Biodun Ogundare LAGOS—CHRISTIAN leaders under the aegis of the Christian Consultative Forum of Nigeria, yesterday, called on the Federal Government to resolve the political logjam in the country to avert the suspension of the constitution. They also stated the need for Christians to be involved in the […]

By Dayo Johnson AKURE—APPOINTMENT of an Oba in Aboto, Ilaje local government area of Ondo State is presently causing ripples in the community as a group, the Mahin Kingdom Central Organisation described the proposed installation of the Oba as illegal. Addressing newsmen, the secretary of Mahin Kingdom, Mr. Saanumi Idowu, said the purported move to […]

…vow never to go back By Ola Ajayi IBADAN—SURVIVORS of the Jos crisis that claimed hundreds of lives returned to Ibadan yesterday in the Oyo State-owned commercial buses looking emaciated and troubled. Among them were three serving members of the National Youth Service Corps posted to the city around July last year. When they alighted […]

By Laja Thomas LAGOS—The National Secretariat of the Mega Summit Movement has dissociated itself from the supposedly joint stakeholders meeting of Mega Summit Movement, MSM, and the National Democratic Movement, NDM, scheduled to take place in Abuja this weekend. In a statement by Mallam Hamisu Turaki, Director, Media and Publicity, Dare Falade, Mobilisation, and Olusegun […]

By  Enyim Enyim ONITSHA—The Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Achebe, has advised politicians and governorship candidates for the February 6 governorship election in Anambra State, against rigging and violence during the exercise. Igwe Achebe gave the advice,  when the governorship candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Dr Andy Uba, paid him a courtesy visit in […]

By Evelyn Usman LAGOS — In an apparent move to address the frequent cases of clashes between military men and civilians  particularly motor park touts popularly known as agbero, the Nigerian Army has commissioned six vehicles that would convey officers and soldiers to and from duty. The 45-seater luxury buses would be distributed to Army […]

Ibadan— The University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan has built a Renal Transplant Centre that will take care of patients with kidney-related problems. The Chief Medical Director, CMD, Prof. Abiodun Ilesanmi, said yesterday that the centre would soon be commissioned. “All the needed equipment are ready for installation. We are yet to finish the construction of […]