Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State, yesterday in Lagos, called on the Federal Government to prioritise the rescue of the remaining abducted Government Secondary School girls in Chibok, Borno State and stop other acts of violence by insurgents in parts of the country.

Ninety-six hours after the expiration of the subsisting emergency rule imposed on the three states -Borno, Yobe and Adamawa- President Goodluck Jonathan is yet to send a fresh request to the National Assembly, NASS, for possible extension, as stipulated by law.

Senator Gyang Pwajok (PDP, Plateau North) has cautioned against “flat assumptions” over those responsible for the many attacks in the country, as more communities come under attacks.

LAGOS—Some members of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the South West, have asked a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos to nullify the appointment of the party’s Southwest Zone Caretaker Committee.

FOREMOST constitutional lawyer, Prof. Ben Nwabueze, has said that he was working hard to salvage the on-going national conference to give Nigerians a new constitution.

WHEN 28-year-old Faidat Ismail put to bed recently, she was delivered of a female set of twins. There was joy in the household at 2, Akindele Street, Ijora Oloye, in Ijora Local Government, Lagos.

BENIN CITY—STUDENTS of the Edo State School of Nursing, yesterday, protested alleged imposition of a principal in the school, non‑accreditation of the school in the last two years and insufficient teachers in the state-owned institution.

Ahead of the nation’s pre-parations for the World Cup in Brazil, a meeting between the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Technical Committee and Coach of the Super Eagles, Stephen Keshi ended in a deadlock yesterday.

The new acting Chief Executive Officer of Etisalat Nigeria, Mr Mathew Wilsher has been in Nigeria for the past nine months. In all of this time, Wilsher says he is studying the environment and the entire Nigerian telecom landscape. As a result he has not made much of a public outing.

The last may not have been heard of the widely reported crisis rocking the duo of Peter and Paul Okoye, popularly known as P-Square, as the telecommunications giant, Globalcom Nigeria Limited may be forced to review its four-year contract with the pop twins.

An alleged plot by some politicians to hijack the conduct of the Bayelsa State congress of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and install a substantive executive loyal to the former governor, Chief Timipre Sylva, is now threatening to tear supporters of the party apart .

‘HOW could these people feel comfortable going about their normal businesses with this fire raging on the mountain? It’s like a man whose house is on fire but he is busy chasing rats. I mean it’s not done!

BARRING unforeseen events, President Goodluck Jonathan will tell Nigerians whether or not he will seek re-election next month, exactly nine months to the February 14, 2015 presidential polls, Vanguard has gathered. He would have broken the ice this month but has to tarry awhile, according to what a source described as ‘inclement political climate’ in the country.

DELEGATES at the ongoing National Conference, yesterday, broke into committee sessions with the Public Finance and Revenue Committee summoning the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, top management staff of the ministry and the Acting Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Dr. Sarah Alade, and her team to appear before it today and Friday.

A savvy information technology entrepreneur, Mrs.Nkem Uwaje-Begho wears a very humble, unassuming disposition that anyone would never presume her achievements and astonishing contributions towards advancing technology in Nigeria.