Boko Haram: Inches away to total victory
Without doubts, the Nigerian security apparatchik is recording tremendous success in its efforts to root out insurgency in different parts of the country, especially the North East.
PDP CRISIS: Obasanjo is the instigator – Sen Okon
Senator Anietie Okon is a founding member of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In this interview with Vanguard, he bares his mind on the crises rocking the PDP just as he maintained that members of the nPDP are out to intimidate President Goodluck Jonathan from running for a second term in office. Okon, who fingered former President Olusegun Obasanjo in the crisis also speaks on other sundry issues.
N2trn seized assets: Reps accuse EFCC, Customs, A-G of plot to derail probe
THE House of Representatives, yesterday, accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, the Nigeria Customs Service and Accountant General to the Federation, AGF, of deliberate attempts to derail investigation into the N2 trillion worth of seized and recovered assets by the commission since its creation
NNPC plans integration into Customs single window platform
THE Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has expressed interest in being integrated to the Single Window (SW) platform of the Nigeria Customs Information System (NICIS).
Gov Ahmed tasks stakeholders on reduction of maternal, child mortality rate
Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State has called on stakeholders to partner with the state in its efforts to reduce maternal and child mortality rate.
NUPENG begins strike in A-Ibom over Mobil’s alleged plans to sack workers
MEMBERS of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, will today begin an indefinite strike in Akwa Ibom State to protest alleged plans by Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited to sack its members.
Closer to a national conference?
It is said that when the time for an idea comes no force can stop it. For the Nigerian ruling class, the idea of a sovereign national conference, SNC, was viewed as treasonous just 20 years ago.
Adeleke, Hassan win Smoking Hills golf
The Ist Smoking Hill Invitational golf tournament has ended in Ilara-Mokin, OndoState, with winners emerging in seven categories.
Ghanaian poet, Kofi Awoonor killed in Kenya attack
The world as described by the poet decades ago is still applicable today as the world’s literary community was, yesterday, thrown into deep mourning following the killing of Prof. Kofi Awoonor, 78. The former UN envoy was among the 39 killed during a terror attack on Westgate Mall on Saturday in Nairobi, Kenya. He died from injuries sustained in the attack.
Al-makura begs 7,000 fleeing citizens to return
GOVERNOR Tanko Al-makura of Nasarawa State, has called on over 7,000 Nassarawa State citizens who fled the troubled Obi, Assakio and Adabu-Alabu areas of the state due to the recent violent conflict to return to their homes as measures have been put in place to ensure their safety.
Parable of the fool and his money…
The other day, a friend narrated a story, which I found stranger than fiction; the story related to the travails of a family who lost a successful and illustrious breadwinner, who, incidentally, died without a Will. The family’s elders were consequently entrusted with the responsibility of efficiently managing the estate of the deceased.
