Campaigners for President Jonathan Goodluck ahead of 2015 elections, yesterday, escaped being lynched when hoodlums among the estimated 30,000 youths attending the Northern Youth Summit in Kaduna suddenly turned violent and went for the organisers of the event, while policemen on ground looked the other way.

A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, and a chieftain of Afenifere, Chief Olu Falae, whose son, Deji, a commissioner in Ondo State, died alongside 12 others in last Thursday’s plane crash in Lagos, says he lost a political successor.

Another boat mishap has occurred in Kokoli village in Borgu Local Government Area of Niger state with 18 people feared dead.

Barely 36 hours after a plane crashed in Lagos, killing 13 persons, tragedy was averted, on Friday night, in Sokoto, after an aircraft with 494 intending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia and 18 crew members on board, lost two tyres while landing.

The technical crew of Kabo Air plane saved the day as it confronted the emergency and taxied to a halt.
The flight, which originated from Kano, was said to be at the Abubakar Sadiq III International Airport, Sokoto, to pick some high profile passengers before heading to Saudi Arabia.

When Christians cannot hear the voice of God, we become tethered to the bible. We insist God only speaks through the bible.

Different strokes for different people. This statement aptly describes the scene of last Thursday’s plane crash in Lagos and Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, where the corpses of the 13 victims who died are being kept and the survivors receiving treatment. Let us take it from the hospital. At the LASUTH gate, which the teaching hospital shares with the General Hospital, Ikeja, you were asked where you are headed. If it was LASUTH, you are directed to the left; if it was the General Hospital, surgical emergency ward, you moved straight on. It was a drizzling Friday and, as you arrived the morgue, not far from the pathology section, many people were there, waiting to collect the corpses of their loved ones, but you could not decipher which of them were for the victims of the plane accident. You began to hear all sorts as things as you mixed with the crowd, from the absurd to pure comedy.

AS President Goodluck Jonathan inaugurates the 13-man National Dialogue Advisory Committee, tomorrow, the Senator Femi Okurounmu-led panel has a number of tough questions to answer.

Umuahia, Abia State capital, last week, played host to the 9th biennial conference of the Nigerian Army Finance Corps. The conference presented Sunday Vanguard an opportunity to rub minds with Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji on the crisis rocking his party, the PDP, the challenge posed by kidnapping to security in his state, among other issues. He was blunt on President Goodluck Jonathan controversial bid to run for second term in 2015.

President Goodluck Jonathan, in his national day broadcast, expressed his resolve to convoke a National Conference. Consequently, the President set up an Advisory Committee made up of eminent Nigerians to work out the modalities for the National Dialogue as he called it.

THE conflict rocking the Warri Zone of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has assumed a new twist with a faction of the body accusing members of the House Representatives of fueling the crisis and threatening scarcity of petroleum products in the zone.