Okpekpe Race: Of Ecobank, Oshiomhole and Julius Tetrault
“We dey fine, no wahala,” Julien Tetrault replied as he answered a telephone call. Everybody around was surprised. The Canadian has not been long in Nigeria but he is quickly adapting to ways of life here.
PDP Govs, Senators, Reps vote for P/Harcourt convention
The Port-Harcourt convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP was yesterday set to take the shine off the parallel convention of the party in Abuja after all 12 PDP governors and the majority of PDP National Assembly members arrived the Garden City for the convention.
3 soldiers feared dead, militants bomb NNPC gas pipeline as Buhari directs army to deal with Niger Delta Avengers
ABOUT three soldiers attached to the Joint Task Force, JTF, in the Niger Delta, allegedly perished in two detached boat tragedies in Bayelsa and Delta States, while suspected militants again bombed the Escravos Gas Pipeline, a facility of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, in Delta State, at the weekend. Details were still hazy at press time, but Saturday Vanguard learned that the fresh explosion occurred near a military houseboat around Ogbe-Ijoh, headquarters of Warri South-West local government area.
LASU graduates can compete favourably anywhere in the world- Prof. Fagbohun
The Vice Chancellor, Lagos State University, Prof. ‘Lanre Fagbohun, on Thursday, affirmed that graduates of the institution can compete favourably anywhere in the world. Professor Fagbohun, who spoke at a press conference to herald activities of the university’s 20th Convocation, where no fewer than 17, 695 graduands of the 2013/2014 and 2014/2015 academic sessions would be graduating, said the university has continued to put every element of excellence in place, in terms of quality learning, researches and infrastructure to ensure that students are well baked to compete anywhere in the world.
The Scavengers of the Niger Delta
She has rolled over many times. But they never come to their fill. They have taken her milk and her peace. She is desolate and inconsolable. But they are implacably ravenous. Many shades of hyenas. The latest, the avengers. A beautiful bride isn’t heart broken because her beauty would be consumed. She wants love and care , some requital. Niger Delta. The goose that has laid the golden eggs since Oloibri. Adaka Boro was prescient, fairness is not a given. The civil war left her frightened, and she went for safety.
My people did not elect me to preside over the dead
Just when Benue farmers were beginning to enjoy some respite from the incessant attacks by Fulani herdsmen, the dear-devil marauders struck again last Friday night at Tarfi village, Binnev Ward in Buruku local government area of the state, and in their usual fashion killed scores, injuring many and razing down houses and several property. The Buruku massacre came on the hills of a similar incident at Agatu where over 500 were killed and Tse Tia village in Tarka local government area, where the youth leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr. Aondohemba Kasa and three others were also butchered in cold blood.
