Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden has claimed responsibility for the botched Christmas Day bombing attempt of a US airliner and vowed further strikes on US targets, in an audio message broadcast Sunday. The statement carried by Al-Jazeera satellite television warned Washington that the attack was meant as a similar message to that of the September […]

The Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, is drifting without vision and could endanger the nation’s democracy, Senator Bode Olajumoke (PDP, Ondo North), and member of the party’s board of trustees has cried out.

Senator Daniel Saror was the former Vice-Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. He represented Benue North East Senatorial district in the Senate and ended up as the Minority Leader of the house before his exit in 2007. In this Interview with Vanguard, he spoke on various national issues ranging from the health of the President, opposition in the country, National Assembly, party system and the constitution review. Excerpts:

By  Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI—The authorities of Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, Owerri, has warned that it will not hesitate to expel and prosecute any student or staff caught involved in any of the serious crime,  plaguing the country presently. The Rector, Chief Onyekwere Nwankwo, who read the riot act at the weekend, while addressing the matriculating students […]

By Festus Ahon UGHELLI — THE member representing Bomadi Local Government Area in Delta State House of Assembly, Mr. Reginald Dombraye, has flayed Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, for calling  for the resignation of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua over of ill-health, saying the group’s call was not in the interest of the nation. Dombraye, who stated […]

By Emma Ovuakporie ABUJA—The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, will today deploy key personnel in the directorial cadre to Awka ahead of the 6 February election as Prof.Maurice Iwu insisted that all field officers must undergo an intensive training at the Electoral Institute. It was reliably gathered weekend that field officers to help conduct the […]

Kaduna—The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, and Jama’atu Nasril Islam, JNI, on Saturday in Kaduna raised alarm over the circulation of “short text hate messages, SMS’’. Rev. Joseph Hayab, CAN Secretary and Alhaji Ja’afaru Makarfi, JNI Chairman, at a joint news conference, appealed to citizens of the state to ignore the SMS and go about […]

Pentecostalism took a weird dimension in Umunakanu Owerre, Ehime Mbao Local Government Area of Imo State, when a pastor introduced a human-size casket into the crusade ground.

By Taye Obateru Jos — A former Military Administrator of Delta State, Col. John Dung (rtd), has joined in the call that state governors be allowed to have greater control on state police commissioners and directors of the State Security Services to enable them  promptly contain security problems in their states. This was coming as […]

Oando Plc, Nigeria’s leading indigenous integrated energy solutions provider, today, opened the acceptance list for a  Rights Issue offer of 301,694,876 Ordinary Shares of 50 kobo each at N70.00 per Share  on the basis of one (1) new ordinary share for every three (3) ordinary shares of 50 kobo each held as at the close […]