The PDP flag bearer for the June 21 Ekiti State gubernatorial election, Mr Ayo Fayose on Tuesday said the name of his running mate earlier submitted to INEC has been substituted.

A team of six outstanding kid-footballers selected from the 2013 Airtel Rising Stars football tournament paid a courtesy visit to Vanguard Newspapers yesterday to show appreciation for the corporate support the programme has received from the newpaper.

Nigerian parents on Tuesday said their worst fears about their daughters’ fates had been confirmed after Boko Haram, which kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls last month, threatened to sell the hostages as “slaves.”

President Barack Obama’s aunt was buried Tuesday in her birth nation of Kenya, family members said, after her death last month in the United States.

NO public commentator has as yet delivered as robust an analysis of the forthcoming 2015 presidential election as a regular columnist in the Vanguard, the intrepid Femi Aribisala. In a recent article, titled: “The 2015 presidential election will not be televised”, Aribisala presented a reading of the watershed election and postulated: “If, as many believe, Goodluck Jonathan is going to run for re-election in 2015, then the next president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria will be Goodluck Jonathan.”

Following the alleged hijack of a school bus by unknown persons in Nyanya, a contingent of soldiers, anti-terrorism policemen, security operatives and bomb disposal squad have moved in to beef up security in the area.

FOR starters, there is no question about who wields political power in Nigeria: now securely in the hands of Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, the President. This question is about one area of authority that President Jonathan and the federal government should be happy to let go now.

NO fewer than 13 heads of state and about 1,000 delegates are expected to participate in the World Economic Forum, WEF, on Africa beginning tomorrow in Abuja.

No fewer than 8 teenage girls between the ages of 12 to 15 have been abducted by suspected Boko Haram terrorists in Warabe village of Gwoza Local government area of Borno state.

Nigerian businessmen have been awarded seven oil blocs for exploration from the 46 newly discovered oil blocs in Kenya, Dr Kiprono Kittony, the Chairman of the Nigeria-Kenya Chamber of Commerce said.

Hajiya Nana Shettima, the wife of Borno Governor, said on Monday that her inability to attend Sunday’s meeting with the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, over the abduction of schoolgirls in Chibok, was not to disrespect the office of the First Lady

Niger Delta gunmen have released two Nigerians they kidnapped two days ago, but kept three Dutch nationals who were abducted at the same time, one of those freed tweeted on Tuesday.

Parents have invaded schools in Nyanya to pick up their children following the alleged hijack of a school bus in the area this morning.

Some victims of the Nyanya bomb blast receiving treatment at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (UATH) on Monday called for Federal Government’s assistance.

Worried by the state of security in Nigeria, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday, said Boko Haram could only be defeated by responsible government, war againt unemployment and provision of social welfare for all citizens.