Senior military commanders have described stories in major international media and culled by local newspapers reporting that Nigeria is deploying hundreds of mercenaries against Boko Haram terrorists as a joke taken too far. The officers insisted that the foreigners are technical advisers that are providing trainings and instructions on the use of new armaments recently procured by the Nigerian military in the war on terror.

Two cousins, Odeh Ogbo and Edoh Christopher, aged 20 and 25 respectively, have reportedly drowned in a well, in a rather bizarre circumstance at Ai’Oga community in Oglewu District of Ohimini Local Government Area of Benue State. Saturday Vanguard gathered that the death of the duo has thrown the entire community into deep mourning, with many suspecting foul play surrunding the mysterious circumstances that led to the death of the brothers, midweek.

The All Progressives Congress gubernatorial candidate in Plateau state, Mr. Simon Lalong has raised alarm over the rising debts profile of the state under the governor Jonah Jang led administration.

THERE was resentment in Itsekiri ethnic nationality, Delta State, yesterday, following uncorroborated information that President Goodluck Jonathan has again cancelled the groundbreaking of the $16 billion Gas Revolution Industrial City, Ogidigben in Warri South-West Local Government Area of the state, reportedly scheduled for Monday, March 16. However, there is no confirmation or denial by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation that the groundbreaking will hold or not hold, at press time.

By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South & Egufe Yafugborhi PRINCE Yemi Emiko is the All Progressives Party Congress, APC, Senatorial Candidate in Delta South Senatorial District of Delta State, slugging it out with the incumbent Senator James Manager, an Ijaw, who is gunning for the seat for a record fourth term against the unwritten understanding […]

Kibaku Area Development Association (KADA), the umbrella body of all the Kibawu people in Borno as well as in diaspora has said that, as a body representing the people of Chibok local government they welcome the laudable safe school initiative by the Federal Government and embrace it wholeheartedly.

In the serious business of football coaching, the rule of the game is presentation. Far from leading you team to victories, today’s coaches are increasingly coming under the microscope of journalists and critics, who search for any scrub to put in the public domain. Like the saying goes, the way you are dressed is the way you will be addressed.

As Nigeria makes move to reclaim over 10 million metric tonnes of lost transit cargoes, the factors that initially led to the loss of this category of the country’s trade to neighbouring countries are still very much present in the Nigerian ports.

The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke has declared that the Ministry and its parastatals are focused on mitigating the effects of lower crude oil prices by directing efforts and investments towards the diversification of oil revenue base in 2015 and beyond.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, said the level of the Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, distributed to voters so far had reached 81.22 percent.