LP, APC merger in Delta suffers setback
THE much anticipated merger of Labour Party, LP and the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Delta State, weekend, suffered a setback with the state Chairman of LP, Chief Tony Ezeagwu, dissociating himself from the merger talks between the two major political parties in the state.
10,000 IDPs break camps, return home with police protection —AIG Ogunsakin
ABUJA — Following the takeover of liberated and recaptured territories from the Nigerian military by the Police, as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari, security authorities told Vanguard, weekend, that more than 10, 000 Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, located in seven IDPs camps, in Damaturu, Yobe State, have broken out of camps and returned to their villages under Police protection.
Illegal appointment: CSO coalition wants 13 VCs to resign
A coalition of some civil society organisations has advised the 13 Vice Chancellors of federal universities in the country who were wrongly appointed by the Federal Government last February to take the path of honour by resigning their appointments.
No way out of budget crisis, as deadline expires
ABUJA— Pressures by the Presidency on the National Assembly to rewrite the 2016 budget and include critical projects left out in the appropriation bill as passed were at the weekend slipping into another crisis with the threat of the legislators to veto
Alleged N10m bribe: Saraki queries EFCC’s powers to clear CCT chairman
ABUJA — The embattled Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has queried the powers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to exculpate the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, Justice Danladi Umar, from prosecution, following his alleged complicity in N10 million bribery sca
IPOB leadership tussle worries MASSOB
Leadership of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, says it is no longer comfortable with what they called “the level of internal crisis rocking the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.”
