SOUTH-SOUTH governors may review their lackadaisical attitude towards the Vice President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, and his probable inauguration as acting president, when they meet in Benin City, Edo State, during the week, in deference to some concerned elders and leaders of the region who have embarked on a fence-mending mission.

By Ndahi Marama MAIDUGURI — A group under the umbrella of Borno Muslim Forum, BMF, has called on the Federal and Plateau State governments to immediately constitute a panel of inquiries to investigate the remote and immediate causes of the recent Jos mayhem with a view to bringing culprits to book. The forum, in a […]

TIME was when Nigerians thought the only fake things in the country were drugs, food and cosmetics. The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, brought the dangers of fake products to national attention. For most Nigerians only these products are fake.

PRESIDENT Umaru Yar‘Adua was, yesterday, facing an uncertain fate ahead of today’s decisive debate on the report of a Senate ad-hoc committee of lawyers on the constitutionality of his continued absence from his duty post.
The report, according to Senate sources, has affirmed penultimate week’s pronouncement by a federal high court mandating the Vice-President to execute functions of the President.

FOLLOWING pressure from some segments of the Nigerian public on the armed forces to abandon their avowed commitment to remain subservient to democratic rule and intervene in governance, as a result of the continued absence of President Umaru Yar’Adua from the country, the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Paul Dike has vowed that “the Nigerian Armed Forces will never depart from its chosen path of honour” saying “instead, we must defend democracy at all cost.”

“As it is for the United States so it is for the Nigerian elite; state power security issues take precedence over intra-party and inter-party democracy and democratic government. It is important also for the difference between electoral parties and state power parties to be recognised. State power parties define the context and condition of the existence and relevance of electoral parties. The Taliban of Pakistan and Afghanistan are state power parties”.

Its ready army of recruits are to be found in many of those so-called places of religious miseducation as produce the almajiris, no different from the madrasas of Afghanistan and other centres of fundamentalist religion, now proliferating in the Moslem North. Until Nigeria rises to the challenge posed by such breeding centres of radical insurgency and cuts down on both covert and overt accommodation of criminality in the name of religion, she can’t be anything but a sponsor of terrorism.

ABUJA— ABOUT 1,950         civil servants at both the Federal and State levels are to undergo the second phase of the specialized mandatory training programme for Grade Levels 08 to 16 which commenced yesterday in three centres in Abuja.

By   Emman Ovuakporie ABUJA—The National Democratic Party, NDP, has threatened to go  to court this morning to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from conducting the scheduled 6 February 2010 governorship election in Anambra State over what it described as the illegal composition of the apex electoral body. In a chat with Vanguard yesterday, […]

Defending champions, Egypt, defeated Cameroun 3-1 Monday, to set up a semi-final clash with Algeria at the 27th Africa Cup of Nations in Angola.

FIFA president, Sepp Blatter, said that there is a need for a radical change to the African Cup of Nations to eliminate club versus country row for African players based in Europe.

As the Athletics Federation of Nigeria begins preparations for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in India, athletes and coaches who participated at the Berlin 2009 World Championships have called on the Sports Ministry and the federation to make life more comfortable for them.

THE royal family of Ekegu in Ndokwa local government area of Delta State has appealed to the federal and state governments to prevail on the Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NAOC, to pay them adequate monetary compensation for oil exploration and exploitation in the area.

By Azu Akanwa THE Ijaw Monitoring Group (IMG) has described the micro-finance award to Delta State governor at the CBN’s annual Micro-finance and Micro-entrepre-neurship Award as an acknowledgement of a government with human face.

By Festus Ahon UGHELLI — THE people of the Niger Delta have been called upon to give support to their leaders to enable the region get its fair share among other regions in the country.