The chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum, and the outgoing governor of Kwara State, Dr Bukola Saraki, yesterday picked the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) ticket for Kwara Central Senatorial District.

The decision of Governor Bukola Saraki to take the PDP Kwara Central Senatorial District ticket from its winner, Alhaji Isiaka Gold, to enable him (Bukola Saraki) contest and replace his sister at the Senate has attracted a strong condemnation by a group, Kwara Partiots Forum.

They may not have escaped yet. In fact, hard times await them. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), does not have plans to drop charges against politicians who are currently undergoing trials in various courts across the country.

Delta State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, last week, spoke to Sunday Vanguard on the January 6, 2011 gubernatorial re-run election in the state which he won, President Jonathan’s chances in the 2011 elections and the allegation by some elders of the state that he has the penchant for dumping people whom he used to climb.

As Almighty as God is, if you do not obey what He says, He cannot do anything for you. For example, if you feel too big to repent, how will God save you? It is true that God is Omnipotent, but He will not permit Himself to save you, until you humble yourself before Him and repent.

The insurance companies contracted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), for the insurance cover of lives and electoral property are yet to receive any premium, Sunday Vanguard can reveal.

The remains of the late Vanguard newspapers sports correspondent, Mr. Richard Animam, were yesterday laid to rest at the Missionary Cemetery, Kobape Road, Abeokuta, Ogun State.

“Traitors….are an unfortunate class of people. If they weren’t, they wouldn’t be traitors. They conspire to bust up a country; they fail, and they are traitors. They bust her, and they become statesmen (and women) and heroes (and heroines). (Translated from original).
Artemis Ward, 1872, in “The Tower of London.”

The Goodluck/Sambo Campaign Organisation in Ondo State weekend gave an assurance that President Goodluck Jonathan would win the South West states during the April general election.

AS sectarian killings continued in Plateau and Borno states, creating fears in Christians in other parts of the North, the national vice president of Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) in charge of South West zone, Bishop Wale Oke has appealed to Christians in northern parts of the country to resist the temptation for reprisal in retaliation for the several violent attacks against them.