By Samuel Oyadongha Yenagoa—Governor Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa State yesterday expressed concern over last Monday’s bomb attack that disrupted Vanguard’s Post-Amnesty Conference in Warri, saying security was taken for granted. Answering questions from newsmen in Yenagoa, Chief Sylva, who insisted that the Nigeria media was target of the attack, said he had believed that the […]

[….at the Vanguard War Room at the Kirikiri base of the Vanguard Regimental Command….Enter Admiral KKK Omoregie, Major General One Leg Atamuna, VRC Adjutant, Major Olabisi Olakankinta, Major 419 Oboh Utueke,and for the first time since he abandoned the VRC to join forces with the MENDO Atlantic Revolutionary Suicide Squad, the good old RSM Okon Bassey is back on parade] .

LEADER of the Aaron team of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, and former Chief of General Staff, CGS, Vice Admiral Mike Okhai Akhigbe (rtd) has confessed that he knew nothing about the modus operandi of the militant group.

THE Igbo Youth Movement, IYM, has called for the convocation of a constitutional conference in view of the recent call by Libyan leader, Mammur Ghadaffi, that Nigeria should split along religious lines.

A retired senior police officer, Mr Elaigwu Agbogo, has dragged First Bank Plc to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over an alleged ATM fraud in his account with the bank.

HOW much power does an Acting President have? Acting President Goodluck Jonathan answered that question,
yesterday, amid speculations that he could not perform the duties of the President, for reasons power mongers have conjured outside the Constitution.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has faulted the law which empowers the President to appoint chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

ACTING President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday became more decisive in running the affairs of government when he ordered the immediate dissolution of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, bringing to an end lingering speculations on the existence of the former cabinet as constituted by the ailing President, Umaru Yar’Adua.

BURUTU, a local government area in Delta State, should hold the world record for refineries. According to the Joint Task Force (on security), 10 hamlets in this local government area have 400 refineries – all illegal.

I ONCE had the acquaintance of an extraordinary gentleman who had come from Jos to have a business meeting with me in Lagos. In the more cordial moments after business had been taken care of, I had remarked conversationally on how his name Malaky, knowing he was from Kaduna State, sounded rather unusual. I had heard of Mayaki, observed I, and wondered aloud if his name was but a variant of the latter.