Egypt’s Appeals Court okays Mubarak’s retrial
Egypt's Appeals Court on Sunday accepted an appeal by ousted former President Hosni Mubarak, allowing him to be retried over the killing of protesters in the 2011 uprising.
Inside Obasanjo’s Aso Rock: ‘After morning prayers, let us plot evil’
The high treachery entered over-drive mode after morning prayers inside Aso Rock presidential Villa, to which Dr. Peter Otunuya Odili, then governor of Rivers State and front runner for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential ticket, was invited by President Olusegun Obasanjo on the day of the party’s contest)
If an ex-convict is President Jonathan’s benefactor, we are not safe – Bola Ajibola
Prince Bola Ajibola (SAN), a former Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, says President Jonathan has more challenges to contend with than having a face-off with former President Olusegun Obasanjo on his comment on the state of the nation. As a member of the panel of judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) which decided the issue of Bakassi between Nigeria and Cameroun, the former Nigerian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, in this interview with Sunday Vanguard at his Hilltop GRA home in Abeokuta, gives some insight into how the ceding of Bakassi to Cameroun actually occurred.
Ohaneze poll: Dep presidential candidate shot
A contestant for the position of Deputy President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo from Enugu State, Chief Emma Nwankpa, was on the eve of the national election shot by unknown persons.
Nwankpa was accosted by the assailants at the entrance of his house.
Our plan to return Oyinlola – PDP
THE national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, disclosed, yesterday, that it has concluded arrangements to appeal the sack of the party’s National Secretary, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, from his Wadata Plaza office.
50 feared dead in Ogun pipeline explosion
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Over 50 suspected vandals were, yesterday, feared dead in an explosion that rocked the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation,NNPC, pipeline at Arepo village, Owode, Ogun State.
Sunday Vanguard gathered that the explosion came following a fire which was sparked off by some vandals who stormed the creeks by boat to siphon fuel from the NNPC pipeline.
