Emir of Kano, Sanusi cancels Eid festivities after bomb attacks
Emir of Kano State, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has cancelled Eid festivities marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan next week after a deadly church bombing and a female suicide bomber’s attempt to attack a university, an official said Sunday. A statement issued by the Emir reads: “Given the critical situation we are […]
The Chibok Abductions: The thief in President Jonathan’s life
You need to be close to President Goodluck Jonathan to understand him. But understanding a man is not the same as understanding his circumstance(s). For a man who permanently wears a demure demeanour, but occasionally bursts into laughter and manages a smile, Nigeria’s Number One Citizen is a bundle of ambivalence. This piece will show why an earlier report on this page (GOODLUCK JONATHAN: A President in Need of Help – an encounter inside Aso Rock) ought to have been taken seriously by presidential handlers. And whereas it should be acknowledged upfront that there are those who neither wishes Jonathan nor Nigeria well, the selfsame President and his team would need to re-discover themselves so that Nigeria, under their watch, would not continue this shambolic run.
Attack on Buhari’s convoy: PDP, APC clash
The ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) clashed, weekend, over the bomb blast which targeted a former head of state, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), in Kaduna.
Vigil disaster One dies, 15 in coma
A PREGNANT woman and three others were crushed to death in Aba, Abia State, while fifteen others sustained serious injuries when an articulated vehicle lost control last Friday smashing over 10 vehicles, including tricycles, in the process.
SALLAH: Military restricts movement in Maiduguri
7 Division, Nigerian Army has said that no vehicle, motorcycle, tricycle or any other vehicular movement will be allowed in Maiduguri, Borno State capital, and environs including Jere local government area.
Body of Ebola victim cremated in Lagos
The body of the first victim of Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria, who died in Lagos on Friday, has been cremated.
Details of the cremation were not available at press time but Sunday Vanguard gathered that the eveny was witnessed by officials of the Lagos State Ministry of Health and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, led by its Project Director, Professor Abdulsalam Nasidi, among others.
