SENATORS loyal to the candidacy of Senator Ahmad Lawan in the recent election for Senate Presidency, have challenged the Senate President, Bukola Saraki to prove his allegation that he was targeted for abduction on the day the National Assembly was inaugurated.

For you to be celebrated in the literary world you must be steadfast by sticking to creative writing, else poor reading culture and piracy will become a stumbling block.” These were the words of globally celebrated creative writer and author of Toad for Super, Eze Chukwuemeka Ike, when the UNN Nsukka kick started the golden jubilee celebration of his writing at the University community.

SENATOR Ben Ayade, the Cross River State governor has ordered for an on the spot cash payment of primary school teachers and local government workers to checkmate the high incidence of ghost workers and fraudulent deductions by paying authorities.

I am delighted to be here with you at this occasion on the inauguration of the National Economic Council (NEC) for this Administration. The National Economic Council was established by the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999), as amended, Third Schedule, Part I, Section 153: Sub section (18 & 19). The NEC, as one of the Federal Executive bodies, has the mandate to advise the President concerning the economic affairs of the Federation, and in particular on measures necessary for the co-ordination of the economic planning and programmes of the various Governments of the Federation.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday ordered the re-issuance of Presidential Villa Press Pass to Deutsche Welle correspondent, Mallam Ubale Musa, who was expelled from villa by the previous administration.

At least five people were killed Tuesday when an Indonesian military transport plane crashed into a city on Sumatra island and exploded in a ball of flames, police said.

The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, yesterday, debunked claims by the former Interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Bisi Akande that their election as Senate President and Speaker was facilitated by oil barons describing the allegation as baseless, false and unbecoming of a respected statesman.

Awka—THERE was tension in Anambra State yesterday, following reports that 47 Boko Haram suspects have been relocated to Ekwulobia Prisons in Aguata Local Government Area of the state.

Akure—THE two domestic staff of late former Vice Chancellor of Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, Professor Albert Ilemobade, said yesterday that they killed him because they wanted to make good money by stealing and selling of his RAV 4 sport utility vehicle, SUV.

A panel of four governors was, yesterday, constituted to probe the affairs of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, following revelations that the corporation withheld N3.8 trillion of the N8.1 trillion generated from oil receipts.

A MAJOR challenge that change faces is the attitude of Nigerians who believe the only government in Nigeria is the federal government. We have at least 812 governments in Nigeria – the Federal Government, 36 States, the Federal Capital Territory, and 774 local government councils. In Nigeria, we have governments, not just the one in Abuja.

In the Monday, June 15, edition of the Vanguard, an interview granted the Vanguard by Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, was published in which, unlike the beloved bishop I know him to be, he astonishingly claimed that “we elected a President not to look for scapegoats. We elected the President to get a job done.” As […]

The Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, passed by the 7th House of Representatives at the expiration of its tenure may have been a pseudo bill, as the one approved by the Federal Executive Council under former President Jonathan’s administration was not the one passed over to the National Assembly.

Coach Shuiabu Amodu yesterday formerly resumed as the Technical Director for football development of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) with the promise to add his quota to the development of football in the country.

For allegedly aiding and abetting land fraud for about two years, a former Chief of Staff to the Federal Territory Minister, Yau Mohammed Gital, has been remanded at the Kuje prisons.