Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez has slammed Sir Alex Ferguson’s claim that he was not offered a new contract at Manchester United because he was planning to retire within four years.

FIVE members of the twelve-man robbery gang that snatched a bullion van belonging to a first generation bank at Nsukka, Friday, were killed in a gun battle with security agencies at Ishielu in Ebonyi State, investigations revealed Sunday.

AND even in some states like Delta, thetake-home of the so-called elected class with their political appointees may well be anything five and 10 times that of the civil service.

English giants Chelsea nailed a convincing win against Thailand’s All-Stars on Sunday, clinching a 4-0 victory in the capital Bangkok on the second match of their 15-day Asian tour.

Six members of a family, Saturday, died of suspected food poisoning at Eziama Uli,Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra state.

ALL of a sudden, so many women are having so many babies all at one time. In the recent past, there’s been a phenomenal rise in the number of multiple births. For one, the number of twin births has more than doubled while number of births involving three or more babies has quadrupled.

*Divergent views have severally been canvassed by Nigerians on why the nation has virtually remained stagnant in the past 50 years. Our Correspondent, CHIDI NKWOPARA, cornered the Anglican Bishop of Okigwe South, Rt. Rev. David Onuoha, and he bared his mind about the Nigerian project. He also spoke on a number of other issues.

The name Isaac Adaka Boro certainly rings a loud bell in the minds of many Nigerians. Boro was the radical and fiery iconoclast who blazed the trail of activism and militancy in the Niger Delta by initiating the Kaiama Declaration, which was a clarion call for self-determination and resource control. As legends had it a group of Niger Deltans led by the young and fiery army officer, Major Isaac Adaka Boro, had held the nation hostage for twelve days by declaring the Niger Delta region as a separate republic from the Nigerian Federation and paralysing government activities for twelve days until they were arrested by the Aguiyi-Ironsi regime and condemned for treason

Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, yesterday, expressed disappointment at the House of Representatives endorsement of the controversial Islamic banking in Nigeria, saying the act smacks of bowing to an already written script.

The leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, is already perfecting plans to tackle any state government which reneges on the agreement to honour the letters of the National Minimum Wage Act, 2011.

Principally, but for the Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, and Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, Rivers State Governor, the three-day warning strike called by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, would have held! This is a report of how Governor Oshiomhole’s deftness contributed in very large measure to the compromise positions of state governors, the Federal Government and even NLC, thereby averting a strike that would have been too burdensome for Nigeria’s ailing economy. It is a story of intrigues and sophistry of gargantuan proportions. It is exclusive.

For more than seven months now, motorists and commuters plying Lagos – Badagry and Oshodi/Apapa expressways have been subjected to untold hardship following regular traffic gridlock on the roads. The situation worsened when the construction works on the Lagos-Badagry expressway reached Mile 2.

The president and the National Assembly should declare an emergency in the fight against corruption.

Dr. David Oyedepo, Chancellor, Covenant University, Ota, made this call in his address on the occasion of the sixth convocation ceremony of the university on Friday.

ABOUT two months after Vanguard exclusively reported the death of militant leader, “General” John Togo, in a crossfire with the Joint Task Force, JTF, spokesman of his group, Niger-Delta Liberation Force, NDLF, “Captain” Mark Anthony, at last, confirmed his demise, weekend.

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