Military authorities disclosed to Vanguard in Abuja , Monday, that the explosion that occurred at about 8. 30pm at the Zuba International Electronics Market on Sunday, on the Kaduna/Suleija road, killing one person and injuring 3 persons, was indeed a bomb blast and may have been one of the several bombing plots planned to embarrass the nation during the inauguration of President Goodluck Jonathan at Eagle Square in the presence of over 40 foreign leaders.

As the nation swears-in new leaders at the federal and state levels, the Niger Delta Youth Congress has stressed the need to investigate the origin and source of funding of the Boko Haram group, which has become a menace in some Northern states.

THE three-man Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Asaba, has granted an order, directing that the governorship candidate of the Democratic People’s Party, DPP, Chief Great Ogboru to serve Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan with the petition through substituted means, since it had became clear that reasonable efforts had been made to serve him same success.

The Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, has wielded the big stick by sealing off seven filling stations in Yenagoa, allegedly involved in sharp practices of over pricing and under dispensing of products.

No fewer than 12 people were killed and over 25 injured in 3 bomb explosions at
the Shadawaka Army barracks in Bauchi, yesterday.

Nigerians in South Africa on Sunday joined other Nigerians in marking the country’s Democracy Day and the beginning of a fresh term for President Goodluck Jonathan.

LACK of adequate communication between the different stakeholders of the Ambrose Alli University, A AU, Ekpoma, Edo State, has been identified as being responsible for the recent crisis that engulfed the University. Acting Vice-Chancellor of the University, Prof. C. Agbebaku disclosed this in her address delivered at the 40th Inaugural Lecture of the University.

The Bauchi State Governor, Malam Isa Yuguda and his deputy, Alhaji Sagir Aminu Saleh, have been sworn in for a second tenure, just as the state government has donated N20 million to the 10 families of the National Youth Service Corps members who lost their lives during the post-election violence in the state.

POLICEMEN from the Sapele Division in Delta State, in collaboration with Mr. Michael Diden, Special Adviser to Governor Uduaghan on Security, weekend, stormed the hideout of a kidnapping syndicate at Ugbolode and rescued the abducted wife of a local government area councillor, Mrs Toyin Oritsejafor.

Former President Ibrahim Babangida, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and their contemporaries in the Northern Political Leaders Forum, NPLF abstained from Sunday’s inauguration following a collective decision to boycott the occasion.

INDICATIONS emerged, yesterday, of plans by the leadership of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to give the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, a soft landing over the alleged N10 billion scam levelled against him. Vanguard gathered that the Speaker is under pressure to indict two front runners for the Speaker and deputy speaker, Messrs Aminu Waziri Tambuwal and Emeka Ihedioha over the scandal.

AS President Good Jonathan was yesterday swore in for a four -year tenure, workers in the nation’s Petroleum industry have called on the President to ensure among other things, an end to importation of petroleum products and gas flaring in Nigeria.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, said, yesterday, that the just concluded general elections in the country were not perfect, but there was a substantial improvement when compared to the past.

FOUR persons including a London- based Nigerian were shot dead, weekend, in Lekki area of Lagos after a gang of armed robbers raided a filling station (names withheld) in the area.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, weekend, restrained the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and its Governor, Mallam Lamido Sanusi from removing Chief Osa Osunde as the Chairman of Afribank Nigeria Plc.