Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Onyeabor Ihejirika disclosed yesterday that the huge number in the deployment of heavily armed troops in and around Abuja was not occasioned by fears of another bomb attack akin to the one witnessed at the Police Force headquarters, but a necessary security measure aimed at protecting lives and property.

Anthony Achonye, 75, father of Mrs Precious Donatus Ogbonna who earlier spoke with Saturday Vanguard when our correspondent visited Owerri said he knows his daughter and she has given him 7 grandchildren.

There are those who might feel, perhaps to a justifiable extent, that the stance of President Goodluck Jonathan to state affairs does not appear manly enough. They feel that he seems to be rather laid-back and somewhat subdued on some of the occasions that he might have appeared more vibrant and assertive. They wonder why he gives the impression of what Americans would casually characterize as a “wimp”.

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has disclosed that a total of 2, 892 candidates scored 300 marks and above in its 2011 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, conducted nationwide last week Saturday.

The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Alhaji Hafiz Ringim, in an exclusive interview with Saturday Vanguard on Thursday, at the Force Headquarters, Louis Edet House, refuted newspaper reports that he had been queried by President Jonathan.