When they struck, the initial conclusion was that these were members of the Jamaatul Ahjlil Sunna lidawati wal Jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram, who had just some 48hours earlier agreed to a ceasefire. However, Sunday Vanguard investigations reveal that these are thieves that have taken over an entire emirate covering Kaduna, Katsina and Zamfara States.

In his sickbed, he reviews his actions and agrees that he is rather too hard on Chief Babigha over the excrement-pouring, the dehumanising tying and the burning down of the shrine and that he has to build bridges before he dies. His wife Mitovwodo assures him that he will not die since he has withstood greater challenges in his life – like Chief Bekederemo’s survival when his half-brother Sabolo shoots him in the chest with a double barrel gun, when Chief Dore Numa sends an ark of small pox to him and when Agbodobiri people tell Chief Dore Numa and the white friends that he has committed multiple murder in the matter of twins, Erekebena, Chief Bekederemo’s wife, her father and entire family absolve him of the murder charge.

It was a celebration of culture last week as Igbos in Lagos, especially in Mushin were joined by their friends, families and well wishers in the celebration that they called Igbo cultural unity.

Suddenly, the Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire have realized that today’s quarter final battle with the Super Eagles may not go their way with Vincent Enyeama in goal for Nigeria.

This is the authentic story of the Chronology of the inconclusive sting operation conducted by the Department of State Service, otherwise referred to as the DSS, involving House of Representatives member and Chairman, Committee on Subsidy Management, Lawan Farouk, and oil and gas magnate, Femi Otedola.

The United Kingdom (UK) said, Sunday, that following the shift of terrorists havens from Afghanistan and Iran to the Maghreb region and now Mali, it would devote more resources to providing more training opportunities and logistics assistance to the Nigerian armed forces to help contain terrorism in the West African sub region.

Lugbe, Kubwa and Nyanya-Keffi highways are unarguably the busiest roads that connect Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to other satellite towns such as Nyanya, Karu, Kubwa, Dutse, Zuba, Bwari, Gwagwalada, Lugbe, Kuje, etc.

About 90 percent of the workforce in the FCT reside in these suburbs. This brings to the fore why there is always traffic jam in the morning and at the closing hours on daily basis on these roads, as well as some strategic business areas of the Nigerian political capital.

“Okay young man. Go right away to the NTA office inside the National Stadium and give this note to Mr. Fabio Lanipekun. He will direct you to the sports hall. Watch as many bouts as possible till about 6pm and bring your report.

DELEGATES to the 12th national biennial conference of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN have started arriving the Akwa Ibom State capital, Uyo for the crucial meeting scheduled to open at the Uyo Township Stadium on Tuesday.

One vital aspect of Nigeria’s public affairs that is not transparently part of the transformation agenda of government is health care delivery. No one in authority appears to be genuinely interested in it. Indeed, not much happens even in the basic area of primary health care because the local government councils to which the subject is assigned merely pocket the little that their state governors allow them to have of their monthly allocations.

The floods of 2013 will soon visit their fury upon us; large scale destruction of properties will follow and the usual hand-wringing and official excuses will follow. Yet it is an axiom of management science that a disaster which occurred twice should not be allowed to occur a third time because, if it does, it means that those in charge are not alive to their responsibilities. Floods will be back again in 2013; more devastating than ever before. Are we better prepared this year than last year?

Chief (Mrs)Adeline Ogboaya Balogun is the CEO of New “U” Spa in Lagos. Though a Paris-trained graduate of French with background in Secretarial Administration, the frequent transfer of her military husband (now an Army General) scuttled her ambition of building a career in language.

Recently, the Federal Capital Territory Authority, FCTA, demolished some structures in Mpape community and Minanuel Estate along the Airport Road, Abuja, saying they were illegal. It also went ahead to publish a list of 37 other estates to be demolished. Following the out- cry that trailed this action, Sunday Vanguard sought the position of key government officials directly involved in the demolition. The Deputy Director of the Development Control Department of the FCTA, Hamza Tayyub, articulated government’s stand on what has become a major controversy involving not only low income earners but also the rich and powerful in Abuja In this interview, Tayyub justifies the demolition and explains why government cannot stop the exercise in the present circumstances. The official also speaks on the challenges FCTA faces in dealing with developers; how developers are ripping subscribers off and what they are doing to bring discipline into the system.

The blinkers are finally slipping off the eyes of die-hard Nigerians, who have just cotton on to what many have been saying so loudly, for so long. It is one that they customarily brushed aside, with the usual “God save Nigeria! Or “Nigeria will get better”.

As the deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and an associate of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Chief Olabode Ibiyinka George, a retired navy commodore, bestrode the south-west PDP like a colossus. Severally, he went on collision with the Alliance for Democracy (AD) government in Lagos, his home state, under the leadership of Ashiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu. Then he fell from grace to grass after he was convicted of fraud while he was the chairman of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA). In this interview, Bode George tells the story of his imprisonment which he attributes to politics.