An Ebute-meta chief magistrate’s court, Lagos, presided over by Mrs. Kemi Doja-Ojo, has ordered that a 23 year-old, commercial motorcyclist, Jigila Ibrahim, be remanded in prison custody for allegedly stabbing a 43 year-old Talabi Ademola to death with a screw-driver.

A team of operatives from the Special Investigation Bureau,SIB and the Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS, have arrested six suspected members of a kidnap syndicate, over the abduction and subsequent release of a woman, last November, after payment of 70,000 US Dollars.

The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State deepened yesterday when the two factions traded blames over alleged suspension of their chieftains.

THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP yesterday described the Boko Haram sect as a local terror group, just as it said that poverty and misrule were not responsible for the insurgency.

By  Emeka Mamah Facts are now emerging that the Catholic Church actually withdrew from the Christain Association of Nigeria, CAN, with effect from September last year. Sources told Saturday Vanguard that the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, CBCN, had in a letter announced the church’s withdrawal to the Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor- led national leadership of […]

We have always said what we have on (the) ground (the Presidential Amnesty Programme) is successful.

Prince Wale Oyekoya, the President of Farmers Association of Lagos Chambers of Commerce and Industry, LCCI, opines that buying cellphones for Nigerian farmers is a not only a misplaced priority but another huge waste of resources.Oyekoya while speaking with Saturday Vanguard in his office on the issue stated that although cellphone was important to farmers, it is not to the level the federal government had taken it, adding that it could be another way of siphoning money.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday arrested the duo of Moghalu Maduakonam and Esho Femi David at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja for attempting to smuggle $240,000 out of the country.

DELTA State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, yesterday, complained about the situation in which the Federal Government had turned oil-producing states and communities to beggars for the oil and gas produced in their own territories.

THE thirty-six State governors under the aegis, Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF will meet in the nation’s capital, Abuja, just as feedback from consultations on review of 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria forms part of the agenda.

Bayelsa State Government says 90 percent of the ongoing projects including 41 road projects, 18 buildings, a multi million Naira world class Diagnostic Centre and a multi door Court House will be completed and due for commissioning as part of the activities marking Governor Seriake Dickson’s one year anniversary.

Apparently, in a bid to clear the air on the controversial N60billion cellphones to farmers, the Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina elucidated on the need for providing cellphones to farmers, saying it would curb sharp practices in the sector anytime government tries to connect with farmers.

A National Broadcasting Commission source has confirmed to Vanguard that the commission will be reviewing the ban on some music videos hacked during the week.

A ‘silver alert’ has been issued for Bolaji James Odubayo, a 20-year-old man, who was said to have left home on Monday January 14, 2013 in Aguda, Surulere and has since not returned. What can possibly explain the disappearance of the Bolaji, a 400- level student of Igbinedion University, Okada, remains a mystery as he was said to have left his residence at No 107, Oshogbo Street, Aguda, Surulere, Lagos around 10am for his campus at Okada, Edo state.

THE Esogban of Benin Kingdom and Chairman of the Benin Forum, the apex organization in Benin Kingdom, Chief David Edebiri says Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s Wednesday’s victory at the state Election Petition Tribunal has opened a new vista in the politics of Edo state.