LAST February when the tiff between Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, and President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Ayo Salami, became public, Salami had predicted, “chained reactions.” In a February 4 letter, he warned Katsina-Alu not to create a “dangerous precedent which may give rise to chained reactions.”

RECENTLY, the Nigerian Institute of Welding (NIW) paid a courtesy call to Vanguard.

Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer, to the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, who has been on trial for more than 12 years over alleged murder, yesterday, broke down in tears at a Lagos High Court, lamenting that he was kept behind bars because the authorities did not want him to reveal how late Gen. Sani Abacha and late Chief M.K.O. Abiola were murdered.

Comptroller-General of Customs, Dikko Inde Abdullahi, yesterday dismissed four Customs men for gross misconduct.

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THE crisis rocking the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Rivers State, yesterday, took a new twist with Mr. Uche Okuku insisting he remained the state chairman of the party.

EVERY Nigerian child along with other children in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India (the PAIN countries) as well as children across the globe will now have equal access to a polio-free life as Football Club Barcelona Foundation

Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer to the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, who is standing trial for alleged murder of late Alhaja Kudirat Abiola, wife of Chief M.KO Abiola, yesterday at a Lagos High Court, made further startling revelations in continuation of his assertions that some South West leaders were given money by the General Abdulsalami Abubakar administration to appease them on the death of Chief Abiola, the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election.

After over a year of dilly-dallying, Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State yesterday obeyed judgment of the State Local Government Petitions Appeal Tribunal declaring the candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Mohammed Zakari as the duly elected Chairman for Wase Local Government Area.

Many stakeholders in the nation’s mining and minerals sector have expressed concern that Nigeria has not been able to take advantage of its vast mineral resources, showing a clear unpreparedness to stake its claim in the rush by international investors for the natural wealth of countries, especially as witnessed in neigbouring African countries.