Nigerian Islamist group Ansaru on Saturday claimed to have killed seven foreign hostages abducted from a construction site last month in the country’s restive north, SITE Intelligence Group said, but there was no immediate confirmation from Nigerian authorities or the countries the hostages were said to be from.

Emeka Wogu, lawyer and politician, has set a record in the political history of Nigeria, as one of the youngest Nigerian politician from his state to head the Ministry of Labour and Productivity, a post that the first and last person from his Ngwa Ethnic Nationality of Abia, Dr. Jaja Nwachukwu, vacated over 45 years ago. Today, Wogu takes the punches on behalf of the Nigerian government, as the one who mediates between Nigerian workers and the government on several burning national issues without looking back.

THERE must be something defective with the line of attack adopted by government and security agencies to tackle the lingering crisis in oil-rich Uzere Kingdom in Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State, otherwise the bloodshed, which escalated in 2011, should have abated or ceased two years after.

DESPITE division among Protestant churches over female ordination either because of cultural prohibition, theological doctrine, or a combination of the two, the St. Joseph’s Chosen Church of God, SJCCG, penultimate weekend ordained its first set of female ministers in Benin City, the Edo State capital.

THE Village Master”, one of the few dramas that excited the Nigerian television stations in the 80s is on the news for the second time in barely a year. Reports about the now rested TV drama, which was created by late Nigerian Ambassador to Ethiopia and cultural icon, Olusola Olusegun, made headlines late 2012 when the producer exited the stage after a very brief illness in a Lagos hospital.

…Cross-referencing DSS and Police reports
This is the curious – very curious – twist in the investigations into the murder of Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde, the late Principal Private Secretary, PPS, to Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, by the Police and the Department of State Service, DSS. Last December, Sunday Vanguard examined the inconsistencies in the report of the Police as signposted by their records. In this series, we probe into the seeming shambles that was introduced into the report of the DSS and the Police.

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, may have made the call in good faith. But he is literally under attack for making it.

Today I want to talk to my friend and colleague, Ade Ojeikere. His e-mail, [email protected] aptly captures it. Ade, as he is fondly called, is a powerful writer and most times, writes satirically. But the one of Saturday, February 23, 2013 in the Sporting Life was definitely not a satire.

Senator Yisa Braimoh, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), represented Edo North Senatorial District in the Senate (from 2007 to 2011). In this interview, he speaks on the one-term pact that President Goodluck Jonathan allegedly had with PDP governors; the emergence of PDP Governors’ Forum (PGF) as a counterpoise to the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF); the desirability of local government autonomy; the problems with the All Progressive Congress, APC, merger and the emergence of Chief Tony Anenih as Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the PDP, among other issues.

Ekiti State governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, have drawn global attention to insecurity in some parts of the African continent, saying that tackling insecurity in the continent requires an urgent intervention of world leaders.