Struggling Ocean Boys climbed out of relegation waters last weekend with thier 2-0 win over Crown of Ogbomosho at the Samson Siasia Stadium in Yenogoa. midfielder.

Heartland coach, Emmanuel Osigwe said that the Owerri lads still have some steam left to climb to the top of the Premier League, despite their 1-0 loss to league leaders Dolphins of Port Harcourt last weekend.

It was an event Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State was scheduled to hand over 250 taxi cabs to taxi operators in the state as part of on-going efforts to phase out rickety cabs in the state. But the event was to be temporarily disrupted by a bomb scare which created panic beyond the confines of the State Secretariat, Alausa.

Former Governor of Sokoto state and presidential aspirant of the Democratic Peoples Party, DPP in 2007 and now of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Alhaji Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa has observed that the Nigerian nation needed a total overhaul in all areas of socio-economic and political development

By Samuel Oyadongha, Yenagoa The Timi Alaibe Campaign Organisation has raised alarm of an alleged plan by the Bayelsa State government to frame up their principal, the Labour Party governorship aspirant over last Friday violent attack on his supporters at his Opokuma country home in which two persons were killed and six others injured. Vanguard […]

FORTY eight hours before the presidential primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, six founding members of the party, yesterday, filed a petition before the party’s Presidential Primary Screening Committee, explaining why former Vice President Atiku Abubakar should be disqualified from participating in the party’s presidential primaries.

Governor of Kano State, Mallam Ibrahim Shakarau, yesterday became the first to submit a presidential nomination form for the All Nigerian Peoples’ Party, ANPP, ahead of what promises to be a close contest against Chief Harry Akande and Alhaji Bashir Tofa, next Saturday.

MUTTERINGS of disaffection arising from the gubernatorial and National Assembly primaries in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, were, yesterday, threatening the fabric of the party. Besides the exit already made by disaffected party members prior to the primaries, there were fresh eruptions arising, ironically, from new efforts to manage the pre-primary rumbles.

THE Umagbae World Association, a Benin-based group in the United States of America, yesterday, raised alarm over what it described as the extinction of Bini language, saying that the ugly situation was a threat to the rich cultural heritage of the kingdom.

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, yesterday, explained that the commission requested for the closure of all schools in the country during the period of voters’ registration in order to guarantee the safety of students and pupils whose schools would be used for the exercise.

Despite the late arrival of the officials of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from the national headquarters for the primaries into the 32-seat Oyo State legislative arm, the election was successful with loyalists of Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala, winning most of the seats.

Former Governor George Akume of Benue State and 24 other Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftains in the state will today, officially declare for Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN.

THERE is no doubt that the political career of former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has been one of the longest and most successful in Nigeria. Right from when he first entered national consciousness as the soldier who received the instrument of surrender from the defeated Biafran forces at the end of Nigeria’s Civil War, his rise within the polity has never waned.

Ahead of 2011 general elections, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, said it has approved 8,465 polling units for voters’ registration and for election process.

BY every measure of publicized and institutional Abrahamic religiosity, Africa stands out and Nigeria is a leader. This
is one face of Africa and Nigeria, its professed religiosity. The other face is corruption a result of power unrestrained by conscience and fear of God. How can this be? The question is itself its answer.