THE Presidential Projects Assessment Committee, PPAC, yesterday, blamed mass failure of public projects over the years to corruption, inadequate budgetary provision, poor project conceptualization and institutional mediocrity.

Senate President David Mark, yesterday, drew the curtain on the sixth Senate with lots of applauds on the achievements of the Senate under his leadership.

Tears flowed freely yesterday as members of the House of Representatives held the last session of the sixth National Assembly.

President Goodluck Jonathan has said the Federal Government would take definite steps to strengthen the nation’s electoral laws to improve and ensure better elections in the future.

Indications emerged, yesterday, that banks rescued by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in 2009, may seek to list on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) to raise funds before the deadline set for them to recapitalise.

AFTER the swearing in of the President and Governors, attention has shifted to the legislature, especially the National Assembly, which will be inaugurated next week. Shortly after, the leadership of the Senate and House of Representatives will be decided.

The governor of Oyo State, Sen Abiola Ajimobi, has taken exception to insinuations and outright accusation in some publications (not Vanguard) that he ordered policemen to “brutalize” protesting students of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, who staged a protest to the Governor’s Office on his day of resumption.

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, yesterday, implored the new Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta, to shun public criticisms and focus on the crucial tenets of justice administration, saying he had personally suffered from undue denigration in the recent past.

Governor Chibuke Amaechi’s second inauguration on May 29, 2011 was memorable for the healing it brought to the political quarrel between him and his one time mentor, benefactor and predecessor, Dr. Peter Odili.

A modern fertilizer blending plant for each of the six geo-political zones is to be constructed by the Federal Government this year, in a deliberate effort to grow the economy through job creation and boost agricultural production across the country.

On Wednesday, just as I made to start writing this column the news of the press conference addressed by Patrick Ekeji on the impasse reached me. Ekeji is the Director-General of the National Sports Commission. He had made efforts to resolve the matter.

ACTION Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and its national leader Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu may have opted out of playing any meaningful role in the new government to be formed by President Goodluck Jonathan.

ABUJA—The North East caucus of the Senate and the South- South Caucus with the backing of the Presidency are locked in a battle over which zone produces the next Leader of the Senate, Vanguard was told yesterday by senators from the North-East. According to one of the senators who spoke with Vanguard on condition of […]

I WRITE about Joseph Sepp Blatter as if he is dead. It is deliberate. Blatter has been in FIFA in the past 36 years. He inherited his iron fist from the Belgian-Brazilian Jean Marie Jo o Faustino Godefroid Havelange, who competed in water polo and swimming in the 1936 and 1952 Olympic Games. Now 95, Havelange, who ruled FIFA for 24 years, was deep in the scandals around the 1998 transmutation of Blatter from Secretary-General to President of FIFA. Other re-elections of Blatter (2002, 2007) have swirled more scandals.

An Owrerri Chief Magistrate Court, presided over by Mrs. Victoria Isiguzo, has granted bail to 261 loyalists of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB.