The attention of the management of Vanguard newspapers was on Sunday October 2, 2011, drawn to a blasphemous comment against the Holy Prophet Mohammed SAW by one Desmond, a faceless hate monger, infidel and a hacker, in his reaction to Vanguard story about passing out of the members of the NYSC.

BARELY 48 hours after a community leader in Igarra, Akoko Edo Local Government Area of Edo State, Mr. Aigboje Emah, petitioned the Edo State Police Commissioner and the State Security Services, SSS, over the activities of a notorious armed robber in the area, angry youths of the area apprehended the suspect and one Toyin Opashi and set the duo ablaze after they were beaten to a pulp.

A Kano-based Islamic cleric, Dr. Sa’ad Dukawa, has called on the well meaning Nigerians to support the establishment of true federalism in the country.

IT did not start yesterday. It has been a long running battle between Ogogoro sellers in Benue State and the state government which has passed a law forbidding the selling of illicit gin alias Ogogoro in any part of Benue State.

The trial begins today of 24 year old Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, accused of trying to blow up a packed airliner bound for the US on Christmas Day in 2009.

This year’s independence anniversary provides another opportunity to reflect on the state of the Nigerian polity, economy and society.

The registered opposition political parties in the country yesterday vowed to join forces with the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Trade Union Congress, TUC and other progressive patriots to resist the proposed withdrawal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government. The parties which vehemently opposed the idea in a statement issued in Abuja, said they will do everything humanly possible “to protect the little benefits we drive from our God given Oil Resource.”

Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, said the Federal Government committed a serious error of judgment by cancelling the traditional parade and shifting activities marking the nation’s 51st independence anniversary from Eagle Square to the relatively-secured Presidential Villa, apparently following threats by MEND and Boko Haram.

WARRI-Presidential Committee on Amnesty, Abuja, weekend, opposed the claim by a group of former militants, under the aegis of Transformed Niger Delta Ex-Militants Forum, that about 12,000 ex-agitators, who passed through transformational training at Obubra Camp, Calabar, Cross River State, had not been paid their monthly stipend.

FORMER Super Eagles defender, Taribo West has given a recipe to the Super Eagles on how to undo the Syli Stars of Guinea in Abuja this weekend to pick the Group B sole ticket to next year’s Nations Cup.