THE former state chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Obinna Ogba, yesterday condemned the comments allegedly made by Governor Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State which opposed the proposed national conference scheduled to commence this year in the country.

Ahead of the 2015 general election, the Parish priest of St Donald Catholic Church, Rev Fr, Sam Tumba, has blamed politicians for security challenges in the country. Fr Tumba made this known in a chat with Vanguard reporter yesterday in Abuja.

Security agents have uncovered new methods of operations by Boko Haram terrorists in Abuja. Investigations revealed that the insurgents have taken up menial jobs, such as cobblers (shoe makers), Keke NAPEP (tricycle) operators and sachet (pure) water sellers, as cover.

An appeal has gone to President Goodluck Jonathan to ignore calls to sack the Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah, unless her culpability in the bullet proof cars saga was established.

FORMER Vice-Chairman, South South of All Progressives Congress, APC, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, yesterday, emerged winner of the Silverbird Communications Benin Politician of the Decade Award.
The Business Manager of the station, Mr. Macdonald Peter- Ayangbe, said the award was the station’s contribution to the task of strengthening the country’s democracy.

The Deputy Senate President, Chief Ike Ekweremadu, has assured the people of Ugbo and the entire Enugu West senatorial district that he would continue to sustain the good relationship that existed between them.
He also promised to work harder to attract more developmental projects to his senatorial district in 2014.

Growing up, the focus of the young Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan was to be an accountant. The potential for leadership that had been identified during his formative years had been expected to propel him towards top position in the corporate world.

President Goodluck Jonathan will broadcast New Year day message to the nation at 7a.m. on Thursday.

AFRICA has long been described as a dark continent where nothing good is happening apart from savagery and war of attrition. This notion has in the past tended to make African stars to be clouded out of reckoning by others. Today, a new vocabulary called African capitalism has entered into the global business dictionary. It is the idea of an African, a Nigerian who is making waves in the international business arena, whose voice can no longer be ignored. He believes that Africa should take its destiny of economic emancipation in its own hand. As it was in Europe in the 16th century when some group of business men in search of profit developed Europe and America, this eminent Nigerian also believes that African businesses can change the face of Africa and transform it from a poor and needy continent to an industrialised one.

ON the night of 14 April 2014, the insurgents capitalised on security laxity in Government Secondary School, Chibok, in the southern end of Borno State, and swept away 276 girls. The girls were reportedly staying back to write their final school certificate exams. Though the West African Examination Council, WAEC, had expressed misgivings about the safety of the candidates, the Borno State Government assured WAEC that there would be adequate security, as Chibok was not one of the areas in the State considered “unsafe”.

Nigeria’s Mikel Obi will battle Ivorian pair of Yaya Toure and Didier Drogba for the 2013 CAF African Player of the Year Award.

Last year, Nigeria witnessed a plethora of achievements in football as the Super Eagles won the Africa Cup of Nations and qualified for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The Golden Eaglets put the icing on the cake with a triumphant display at the FIFA U-17 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates.

Controversy has continued to trail the allocation of higher import quotas to new investors in the nation’s rice sector.

The seed of transformation planted by Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan in Delta State did not appear at first dawn. Like a woman in pregnancy, Uduaghan’s manifestation started with some queasiness, the kind of early morning sickness associated with pregnant women before the shaping out of the tummy.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday promised Nigerian youths more jobs this year and improved well-being for the citizenry through focused implementation of the Transformation Agenda.

In a six-page, 2896-word New Year message, the President, who restated that the amalgamation of the country exactly 100 years ago was not a mistake but a blessing, however, said that the centenary of the country’s nationhood was a moment for sober reflection.