After nearly fourteen years of waiting, the first manufacturing firm in Bayelsa State Thursday came on stream with the production of PVC pipes.

Dr Olusegun Kokumo Agagu, former governor of Ondo State has faulted the emergence of a Northern Consensus Presidential Candidate, saying it has no basis. In this interview with Vanguard, the one-time Minister of Power and Steel, said the Adamu Ciroma-led committee could not speak on behalf of the entire North. Among others, he attributed the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, loss in the South West zone to questionable court verdicts made the party lose in the region.

FOR three and a half years Governor Rauf Aregbesola fought to reclaim the mandate freely given to him by the people of Osun State on April 14, 2007 before the Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan declared him as the true winner of that election . In his maiden press conference on Monday with journalists in the state, he spoke on a number of issues ranging from how he wants to be addressed and his programmes for the people of the state.

A family of four persons was roasted to death on, Wednesday, at Ayokoromor in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State during invasion of the community by the Joint Task Force, JTF, on the Niger-Delta in search of the leader of the Niger-Delta Liberation Force, NDLF, “General” John Togo.
Vanguard gathered that they were killed in their family home.

THE Police, yesterday, began investigation into the circumstances that led to the exchange of blows by the National Vice-Chairman, Southeast, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh and a member of the Board of Trustees, BOT, of the party, Chief Chris Uba in Owerri on Wednesday.