THE high-wire battle for the soul of Ebonyi State is an interesting one requiring the combatants to be on their toes and ready to change tactics and strategy rapidly.

The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, recently fielded questions from a select group of editors to clarify a number of issues in the oil and gas sector ranging from the allegation of $10bn expenditure on jet private hire to the report of the forensic audit of NNPC. Excerpts. Cont. from last week On […]

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It has become necessary to make attempts at clarifying some issues now before we drift from the already hazy atmosphere into more serious political miasma.

SOME aggrieved members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Anambra State, have called on the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, to immediately include their names in the list of candidates for the 2015 national and state assembly elections.

The Management of Dolphins Football Club of Port Harcourt, on Friday, commiserated with Kano Pillars FC over their robbery on their way to play a match in Owerri on March 5.

The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO) has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to bring back the missing Chibok girls to their parents, rather than sending emissaries to them and making yet more pledges as the president has been doing over the past few days. 

THE Senate Committee on Defence and Army, yesterday, demanded how the over N1.275 billion budgeted to the Ministry of Defence in the 2014 fiscal year was spent.

A civil servant, Kamorudeen Shomide, on Friday pleaded with an Orile Agege Customary Court, Lagos, to dissolve his 19 years’ old marriage to his wife, Ganiyat for alleged to threats to life.

Brig.-Gen. Ahmadu Bello, Commander, Nigerian Army Mapping and Survey Command (AMSC), on Friday said the soldiers’ involvement in sports would ensure their physical fitness. Bello made the statement while speaking with journalists at the end of the AMSC Sports Week in its command in Owode Yewa Barracks, in Ogun.

The Nigeria Football Federation on Friday announced that the Senior National Team, Super Eagles, would play a friendly game against the Bafana Bafana of South Africa on March 29.

BARELY eight days after the embattled Governor of Ebonyi state, Chief Martin Elechi was served an impeachment notice by the State House of Assembly, a reliable source close to Vanguard revealed that the Presidency had ordered the Governor to collapse the structure of Labour Party, LP into PDP to avoid the impeachment move against him.

The Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, Kayode Opeifa has said that some sections of the Lagos roads will be closed for some hours on Saturday.

The immediate past Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel has expressed his deep condolence on the death of Chief Bayo Kuku, (CON), the Ogbeni Oja of Ijebuland and Chairman, Council of Ijebu Chiefs.

National Youths Wing of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has threatened to mobilize Nigerian youths and indeed all APC’s supporters to occupy the Aso Presidential Villa and major cities in Nigeria should the general elections be postponed for the second time.