At last, APC and PDP members in the House of Representatives, on Thursday, buried their differences and approved the 2014 budget proposals.

This came five months after the Presidency laid the budget for legislative deliberations on December 18,2013. The APC had vowed to block all executive bills.

She was the force behind the recently concluded Orubebe Invitational Golf Tournament. A silent achiever, Mary Oyibocha Agbajoh is not one that can be rated as a run of the mill lady. Barrister (Mrs) Agbajoh a business woman, politician, media consultant and event planner par-excellence, was born on the 6th of February, 1972 in Delta State, Nigeria. She is somewhat of pacesetter and in this Interview with Sunday Vanguard sports, she tells the story of the Orubebe Golf tourney among other achievements

Russia’s shadow boxing with the United States and its European allies is not about to fizzle away as pro -Russian separatist groups in the eastern regions of Ukraine have opened another scenario for geo-political power play in Eurasia.

The declaration of independence by Donesk and the show of rebellion in Lugansk, Russfied and Kharkiv shows that Ukraine has more headaches to contend with after the Crimea nightmare.

By Ayo Onikoyi Being named among the richest musicians in Africa isn’t something that doesn’t come with some perks of life. Don Jazzy is sure in the upper reef of the entertainment world and the multi-talented producer made a meal of the fact on Friday when he posted shoe closet of his wife to-be, chiming […]

At such times I walk away and just watch from afar. I cannot do anything about that. We go for events and people turn up and want to take pictures and all that. It comes with the territory and I give him that space because he needs it.

This report will show that there is a serious challenge of not only ineptitude and incompetence but also ethnicity, nepotism and perception of alleged partisanship in the conduct of the affairs of the legal department of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. The resultant consequence of this is that the Commission may be in danger of creating unintended problems for itself as the 2015 general elections approach. That is what Professor Attahiru Jega, INEC Chairman, insists would not happen. This is a first in a series in the build-up to next year’s elections.

Arsenal eliminated Wigan Athletics via penalty shootout to set a date with either Hull City or Sheffield Wednesday for the FA Cup final. More details to follow…  

To underscore the problem, I came across a woman who, in the course verifying her credentials, could not read an affidavit. Instead of “I solemnly declare”, she said “1 Solomon”. Instead of “Judicial Province”, she said: “Onitsha Prophet”.

“Judicial” starts with “J”, yet she was confusing “Judicial” with “Onitsha”. “Province” is “Prophet”. We asked yet another teacher: ‘how many local governments are there in Edo State, list some of them?’ She said: “UNIBEN”. UNIBEN is a local government

IT’S not easy to seize a prey from the mouth of the tiger, but that was exactly what the Delta Waterways Security Committee, DWSC, Warri, did, last Sunday, when it forced kidnappers of Mr. Ebikeme Clark, son of a former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, to unconditionally release him, four days after he was taken hostage in Kiagbodo, Burutu Local Government Area, Delta State.

With over 20 kids abducted in three months in Calabar, the stories surrounding their disappearance are like tales from the moon, but what is happening to kids between the ages of three and six in the Cross River State capital, is far from tales; they are real life incidents which are sending fear down the spine of many parents.
Since February, men from hell have besieged the city, snatching children suspected for ritual purposes or sale to barren women around the city who allegedly pay triple digit amounts for the kids.