BENIN CITY—THE United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Stuart Symington has urged the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration to treat Nigerians as equals irrespective of their ethnic back ground so as to ensure peace and unity of the nation.

Leader of the Igbo Women Assembly and an associate of the late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Chief Mrs Maria Okwor, in this interview attributes the problem in Nigeria to failure of leadership and injustice which came with military domination and said only restructuring across regions, resource control and devolution of power will solve the problems.

Elder-statesman, Chief Richard Akinjide (SAN) was effusive after reading the 2016 Independence Day publication of Saturday Vanguard, “Your Saturday Vanguard made other newspapers look small, it made them look ordinary.”

While most Nigerians tend to blame the Federal Government for everything that is wrong with the country, state governors, local government chairmen and representatives at various levels, who should majorly be held responsible for most of the decay in states and communities, ironically, are left off the searchlight.

Jubilations on the Plateau should be unlimited,greater things are on the way following what took 45 years to achieve: Winning the Premier League. And the people must give kudos to Governor Simon Lalong. There must be some luck about him.

Former Minority Whip in the 5th Senate and a former Presidential Adviser on National Assembly Matters to late President Umaru Yar’adua, Senator Mohammed Abba Aji has assigned his lawyer, Barrister Abdullahi Usman of Beneshiekh Chambers to take up the matter concerning some Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Bama who peacefully protested their going back and vacated camps in Maiduguri due to poor feeding and health, but ended up arrested and remanded in Prison custody.

In the heady days   of the dawn of the 4th  republic when governor elect of Adamawa state, Atiku Abubakar, was forced to consign that office to the dustbin of strategy in order to take up the PDP’s vice presidential ticket that would catapult him to Aso Rock; things appeared to be rather straightforward. Musa Yaradua, great friend and ally of General Olusegun Obasanjo, was also the political godfather of Atiku. Political analysts had considered it only fair that Yaradua’s godson would govern in his stead, in the country for whom he died. 

When you lose your car keys and then go upstairs only to forget why, it’s easy to fear your memory is fading. But instead of being a cause for concern, it seems these ’senior moments’ should be welcomed. It is when you begin to stop noticing your memory lapses that you should actually start worrying, according to scientists.

The Lagos State Government has clarified the ongoing insinuations and diverse interpretations given to the recently unveiled new Awolowo statue claiming that “It is a piece of artwork expressing the Artist’s impression of the late Sage and not a photograph”, adding that it can be subjected to several interpretations.

“I began losing my husband nine years ago,” said 72-year-old Charlotte, a retired  industrial nurse. “We were both in our early 60s when he became strangely forgetful and disoriented. I can’t quite pinpoint when Idowu, my husband—that is to say the man I married—disappeared, but that man no longer exists. The diagnosis of Alzheimer’s didn’t happen until three years ago, but by then it didn’t really need a name. It was abundantly clear that something was seriously wrong.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has continued to sustain liquidity in the foreign exchange market, as it boosted the market yesterday with $308.5m.

She told him how the only person willing to assist her had requested to take her to bed. Father Akaduchi was moved by the plight of the widow.

Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), the flagship subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), is poised to grow its equity production from the current 180,000 barrels per day to 300,000 bpd by 2018 and by 2019 and 2020 its production is expected to hit 400,000 bpd and 500,000 bpd, respectively.

Following the plan by the organised labour to embark on an indefinite strike over backlog of unpaid salaries in Benue state, the Majority Leader of the State House of Assembly, Mr. Benjamin Adanyi has appealed to workers to jettison the action saying that “with the present economic realities even a Pope or Bishop may not be able to pay salaries in Benue.”

The Kwara State Government has relaxed the sanctions imposed on the traditional rulers of Iloffa and Odo-Owa following the outbreak of violent crises between the two communities in Irepodun Local Government Areas of the state.