TONGUES are wagging in Bayelsa State over the tribulations of a paramount ruler and political kingmaker in the oil-rich state, King Amalate Johnnie Turner, who, a gang of 25 gun-totting bandits attacked and looted his country home, Opume, Ogbia Local Government Area of the state, penultimate Saturday.

Today, a lot of people both from within and outside the country, have been commending President Muhammadu Buhari for his guts to fight corruption, particularly with the prosecution of the perceived high and mighty in the society.

FEAR that flood may again ravaged homes in Ikot Akpan Abia community in Uyo Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State has heightened due to the heavy downpour being experienced in the area.

Against the backdrop of a call by Ms. Funke Aboyade, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria SAN, urging homeowners and residents in all the estates built by Lekki Gardens Homes Limited to file a class action to seek judicial reprieve following the uncertainties surrounding the firm because one of its buildings under construction collapsed in Lekki recently, the residents and homeowners under the aegis of Committee of Lekki Gardens Residents’ and Homeowners’ Associations, have disclaimed the call.

HUNDREDS of youths and community leaders from Agulu-Awka in Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State yesterday took to the streets to protest consistent lack of electricity supply in the area for the past six months.

THE controversy trailing the rerun of the Anambra Central senatorial election has taken a new dimension, with the candidate of African Democratic Congress (ADC) in last year’s election, Comrade Anayo Nweke dragging the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to court, urging it to stop former Governor Peter Obi from participating in the election.

Imo State Office of the Public Complaints Commission, PCC, said it successfully disposed 302 out of the 405 cases it received in 2015, while only 103 cases are pending and still under investigation.

WORRIED by the deplorable state of the primary and secondary schools in their community, the people of Onyah in Ndokwa East Local Government Area, Delta State, have appealed to the state government and interventionist agencies to come to their aid.

Plans by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC to regulate the Value Added Service, VAS industry is generating anxiety, suspicion and fears of foreign invasion of the sector.

ON this year’s World Malaria Day, health professionals have called on Nigerians to always demand for malaria test from their physicians before treatment.

It s no longer news that three members of Imo State House of Assembly were slammed with indefinite suspension last Wednesday, April 20, 2016, by the Speaker, Chief Acho Ihim. By the time you will read this piece, the affected lawmakers must be thinking, planning or possibly carrying out one of the several options open to them.

OGHARA—AN official of the Department of State Service, DSS, was last Saturday set ablaze by an unidentified youth at Oghara just as the gunmen who abducted a medical doctor attached to the Delta State University Teaching Hospital, DELSUTH, Oghara are demanding N30million ransom for his release.

MENTAL health experts from the Neuro – Psychiatric Hospital, Kaduna, are to be drafted to assist in the management of victims of emotional trauma in the North Eastern part of the country.

A survivor from Sunday’s accident in which six medical doctors, and a driver from Ekiti State were killed 60 kilometres from Kaduna State, yesterday told Vanguard exclusively on his sick bed in Kaduna how the accident occurred.

ABUJA — The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, yesterday, struck out a motion the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, filed for an order staying further proceeding on his trial before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, sitting in Abuja.