AS expected, it was a joyous news on Tuesday when the Dean, School of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Benin (UNIBEN), Prof. Isaiah Ibeh, announced the development of a new drug that can possibly cure HIV and AIDS. However, the joy was short-lived after the claim became controversial.

I love the house I live in.  I call it “the secret place of the Most High.”  When I go home, I go to a haven of peace.  I pray by walking around the house.  I must have thanked God over one thousand times for that house.

Apparently, the banking public in the country is not benefiting fully from the initiative by the Bankers Committee in the last quarter of 2012 fiscal year on the abolition of N100 charge per Automated Teller Machine (ATM) transaction.

Where in the world would people congregate to say morning prayers and the next act immediately after is a conspiracy; an ungodly act? Well, on the morning of December 16, 2006, it happened in Olusegun Obasanjo’s Aso Rock Presidential Villa.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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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.

AS celebration over the Supreme Court victory of Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State continued in Benin City yesterday, some stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) want the leadership of the party in the state to sanction the governorship candidate of the party, Gen.Charles Airhiavbere, for alleged disobedience to the PDP decision not to contest the result of last year’s election in Edo State.

She’s the Managing Director/CEO of ACCION Microfinance Bank Limited, a bank that has evolved from a one-room office space to a leading microfinance firm with over 17 branches and 300 staff spread across major cities in Africa. All these actually happened in 5 years and in a society where microfinance banks hit the rock no sooner than they are established. For two years running, the bank has won the Lagos State Microfinance Bank of the Year. At the international level also, it got the Africa Bankers Award nomination for Best Microfinance Bank in Africa. Mrs.Olubunmi Lawson tells of how she’s living-up her dream of practicing medicine even in the world of finance. Enjoy!

Former Golden Eaglets coach, Henry Nwosu has charged the Super Eagles players to tickle Nigerians and Africans with a good performance in the Africa Nations Cup in South Africa, saying that it would serve as proof that they are the best 23 the country has at the moment.

IN the face of the calls for the independence of local governments in Nigeria’s federal arrangement, the opposition by the governors, who made their position known through the Chairman, Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, and Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi, appears to have darkened the prospects of the matter being resolved through the on-going amendment of the 1999 Constitution.

AT the Holy Family Home for the Elderly, Mushin in Lagos owned by the Catholic Arch-diocese of Lagos, Sister-in-charge of the home for the past five years, Rev. Mother Antonia Adebowale said a Pentecostal church, House on the Rock Church, came to the home to celebrate with the inmates and “it was a beautiful gathering because the elders were treated to the full-ness. They took them out and they had a good time.”

Nasarawa State, the home of solid minerals, used to be one of the most peaceful states in Nigeria where people from various tribes have lived together, inter-married, and shared beliefs and customs. However, recent events have proved that the state has sadly joined the league of states with records of communal violence.