By Anayo Okoli Umuahia—NIGERIA Bar Association, NBA, Umuahia branch, has called for the removal of the Abia State Police Commissioner, Mr. Jonathan Johnson over allegation that he does not obey court orders. The lawyers said that the Commissioner’s alleged penchant for disobeying court orders “is a big threat to democracy and rule of law.” Addressing […]

By John Ighodaro CALABAR—Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has expressed hope that the researches being carried out at the University of Calabar will not only be of benefit to Nigeria but the whole of Africa. He spoke at the joint 24th and 25th Convocation Ceremony of the University of Calabar which held weekend in Cross […]

Some parliamentarians have reason to question the motive behind the recent visits of some religious leaders to recuperating President Umaru Yar’Adua. At an impromptu gathering last week at the Lawanson Bus-stop in Lagos, most of them dismissed the separate visits of Muslim clerics and Christian leaders, supposedly on the invitation of some aides of the ailing President, as nothing but a carefully contrived political move to hoodwink the populace that the President is presently on the speed lane of recovery.

By Ola Ajayi IBADAN—THE Action Congress, AC, in Oyo State has described as cowardly an alleged statement credited to the former Minister of Justice in the second Republic, Chief Richard Akinjide, at a recent political meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ibadan, where he said only Ogbomoso axis is entititled to produce the […]

FOLLOWING last week’s revelation by the United States’ Ambassador to Nigeria, Robin Sanders, that documents and evidence needed by the Nigerian authorities to prosecute culprits in the $180million Halliburton scandal have been made available, Vanguard can report authoritatively that the Federal Government has drawn up a list of indicted persons recommended for prosecution for allegedly sharing the bribe money.