The peace-mission operation in the Darfur region costs the AU-UN Mission in Dafur (UNAMID) $1.9 billion annually, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, the UN special envoy has disclosed.

THE Seven-Up end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway daily records unprecedented influx of people into Lagos from across the country. Indeed a recent study reveals that over 25,000 people from across the world move into Lagos for various reasons on a daily basis. This is what makes Lagos a melting pot.

It was harvest of arrest of suspected kidnappers and human traffickers in Edo State, last week, as the state Police Command, the State Security Services (SSS) and the Nigeria Immigration Service paraded suspects numbering 55. 48 suspected robbers, cultists and kidnappers were paraded by the police and the SSS while the Immigration Service paraded one 35- year old Queen Ogbomo, a human trafficking suspect based in Italy, and six female victims.

When the pain caused by sickle cell disease comes, it is like being hit by a tornado,” someone once stated.” In all honesty, the pain is difficult to describe,” another proffered. “It’s right in your bones and you can’t move, eat or talk, said a third person. “You feel it in your back, your joints and in your kidneys.” The description continues, endlessly. This was the kind of scenario at play when Janet first complained of stomach pain. At that time in question, Bridget, her mother never gave thought to the fact that her daughter might be going down with a complication of sickle cell disease.

BY FAVOUR NNABUGWU 19 children have been selected by the Ministry of Water Resources to attend the 2011 World Children Festival, WCF, in the United States (US). Participants for 2011 WCF which ends Thursday, were selected at random from the children of ministry’s staff whose grade level ranges from 12 and below. The event holds […]

Ogun State government has assured traders at Oluwanisola Cattle Market, Isheri, along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway that it will provide a better site for them as it plans to relocate the market.

Eight years after it was set up, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, may have recovered $11 billion and achieved over 600 prosecutions. However, the perception in some quarters is that the commission could have done more were the imbecility of politics not a factor in its activities. Whereas there appears to have been a shift from the corruption-laden environment which predated the establishment of EFCC, this report brings into sharp focus the challenges of anti-corruption in a socio-political environment with clashing interests.

There are indications that two experts in improvised explosive devices from the United States (US) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) may have arrived Nigeria to help the police unravel several disturbing angles in the investigations into the twin bomb blasts that rocked the Force Headquarters in Abuja on Thursday.

For over 11 months, Sunday Vanguard had been on the trail of Farida Chinyere Waziri, Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. At almost every turn, something would throw spanner in the works and the interview never really held.
The exchanges between Sunday Vanguard and Femi Babafemi, spokes person for the Commission, with a view to getting the interview conducted, never ceased.
Last week, something sparked. Even to the surprise of Sunday Vanguard, a last minute request for the interview to be conducted on-line yielded signs that turned out to be considered positive.

Amid indications that the State Security Service (SSS) may have cleared eleven ministerial nominees sent to it by the Presidency for security screening, there are feelers that the nominees are dominated by technocrats.

The new administration of Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso in Kano State has seized landed property allocated to the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, and other eminent Nigerians by the immediate past regime of Malam Ibrahim Shekarau in the state.

WHAT ordinarily would have been a solemnization of holy matrimony was yesterday turned into a political gathering as Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State gave out his daughter, Winifred, in marriage to Solomon Owumi.

Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, was, yesterday, thrown into confusion when news filtered into town that three candidates from the state scheduled to sit for the 2011 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) organised by the Joint Admission Matriculation Board, JAMB, were killed in auto-crash in Abua-Odual local government area of Rivers State.

Following the remorse shown by Bauchi State Governor Isa Yuguda over the death of some corps members during the post-election violence in the state and his offensive comments afterwards, some colleagues of the fallen NYSC members are back to duty in the state.

Immediate past commissioner for information in Delta State,  Mr Oma Djebah, has  described Governor Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan of Delta State  as an inspirational and innovative leader who has built a lasting legacy of transformation  and sustainable development in critical frontiers of  the state’s life and in the Niger Delta  region,  stressing that what is needed […]