Ayo Fadumiye, lead Pastor of The Light Sanctuary, leadership expert /coach and performance consultant, has emphasized the role of the youth in nation-building saying they are critical to the revival of any nation.

Penultimate week, Sunday Vanguard published a story of auto parts dealer, Qassim Balogun, a father of two, who was down with heart disease that was threatening his life. Unfortunately, before the story was published, Balogun succumbed to the cold hands of death.

President Goodluck Jonathan said on Saturday that the his administration would not rest on its oars until it stabilised power supply in the country.

Nigeria’s military on Saturday claimed to have retaken the town of Baga from Boko Haram, the scene of what is feared to have been the Islamist militants’ worst atrocity of the six-year insurgency.

The Special Adviser to Gov. Umaru Al-Makura of Nasarawa State on National Integration, Chief Ezedinma Chukwunonso, has appealed to Ibos not to leave the state before, during and after the forthcoming general elections.

An avalanche swept away “several people” Saturday in the Swiss Alps near the Italian border, local police said, adding that weather conditions were complicating the search.

A Boko Haram attack on a village in southeastern Niger followed by clashes with the army have killed at least 21 people, mostly from the Islamists’ ranks, Niger’s military said Saturday.

A civil society organisation, Citizens Advocacy for Social and Economic Rights (CASER), has applauded the recent gains recorded by the Nigerian Armed Forces against the Boko Haram.

President Goodluck Jonathan said on Saturday that the Federal Government would open more inland ports in the country for easy clearance of imports.

Ukraine’s former pro-Kremlin president Viktor Yanukovych, whose ouster early last year led to the insurgency raging in east Ukraine, said in a Russian interview excerpt released Saturday: “I’ll be back.”

The black Frenchman who was the victim of racist abuse by Chelsea football fans on the Paris Metro has received a personal message from President Francois Hollande.

NATIONAL leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP said yesterday that shifts in the dates of the presidential and general elections from February 14, 2015 to Saturday, March 28, 2015 and April 11, 2015 by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC was carried out to save the electoral umpire and the country from huge embarrassment.

The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon has reiterated the full support of the UN to the new dates fixed for the conduct of the Nigeria’s general elections.

Mr David Parradang, the Comptroller-General, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has urged Nigerians seeking employment into the service to disregard money-for-job offers by individuals, saying they are scams.

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), a journalists forum, on Friday in Dakar, demanded protection for journalists from Nigeria’s security agencies.