Saturday Vanguard could not have been privileged to visit the impressive historical sites in Lokoja, Kogi State, if not for the sound weekend packaging of the tour by the Kogi State Chapter of the University of Jos Alumni Association, UJAA.

Casting baseless aspersions on the Nigeria Police is increasingly becoming the passion of some politicians in Nigeria. It is particularly painful when such accusations come from politicians who are occupying sensitive public offices like the senate, where the laws of the land are made. No doubt, senators are ideally critical-minded people, and when they expose what they consider to be a major scandal, no eyebrow would be raised if the subject matter of their quarrel is justified.

The elders of Oroma Etiti Anam in Anambra West LGA have unanimously resolved to cast their votes for Gov. Willie Obiano in the Nov. 18 Gubernatorial Election in Anambra State to enable him continue his good works in the state until 2022.

When I walk, I will tremble. I will fix my nails and scatter my fingers.   I will paint them in crazy colours. I will learn how to flick my eyelids. And how to roll my eyes. I will pout my lips in church. I will  take pictures with my mouth half open, like our former petroleum minister.

An undergraduate of the Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijebu Ode, Ogun State smiled home with N500, 000 Monday, August 28, 2017, following his win in one of the games on  Western Lotto platform and pledged to continue playing the game for more winnings.

The transformation of any nation is directly proportional to the quality of the thought of its citizens.

TWO persons were yesterday confirmed dead after unidentified gunmen stormed Unenurhe community, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State on Thursday evening and shot randomly at residents in the community.

THE Anambra State Police Command has arrested a 64 year-old grandfather and two members of his syndicate, who allegedly specialize in car snatching in the South Eastern States.

I have been living in shame and most times, I’m very depressed. When I was living with my uncle, one of his friends did something very bad to me and I have not been able to say it out until now. I was violently raped and on my own, I went to the hospital. I was told that I need to get a pap test and other tests as there could be damage from the force used.

OKOWA  Mandate Group, OMG, a political pressure association in Delta State, has extolled the state Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, for successfully piloting the affairs of the state in the last two years, despite the poor economic situation in the country.

EXACTLY  eight days after the Reformed Niger Delta Avengers, RNDA, heading a coalition of nine militant groups proclaimed a new body and leaders to supplant the Pan    Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, the umbrella body of monarchs, leaders and stakeholders of the coastal states of Niger Delta, led by the former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, PANDEF rumbled, on Sunday, dismissing the seeming threat to its existence.

The Emir of Gombe, Alhaji Abubakar Shehu Abubakar III  has urged herdsmen to be law abiding by avoiding grazing their animals on people’s farms and thereby destroying them.

GOVERNOR Godwin Obaseki of Edo state yesterday celebrated Eid-el-Kabir with members of the Muslim community in the state, at Government House, Benin City, with a call on them to live peacefully with members of other religions in the state.

Barcelona and Philippe Coutinho’s entourage have finally accepted there is no way the Brazilian is leaving Liverpool this summer, according to  Sky Sports’  Spanish football expert Guillem Balague.

Chelsea  have finally signed  Danny Drinkwater  after  Leicester City  accepted an improved offer on transfer deadline day. The England international handed in a transfer request on Monday to try and force a move to Stamford Bridge, but the two clubs were still struggling to agree a fee heading into deadline day.