A cross section of Nigerians in Damaturu on Monday say President Muhammadu Buhari’s new year speech provides hope for accelerated infrastructural development.

Oba of Benin, Omo N’ Oba Ewuare II, has sent a New Year felicitation to all Edo sons and daughters and indeed Nigerians across the globe wishing them a happy and prosperous New Year.

A notorious kidnap syndicate and robbery gang that has been terrorising indigenes of Zamfara State has been smashed by operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team, following the arrest of 12 suspected members.

IT happened again between October and December last year. With no no-go areas, you would expect the arguments and debates by members of Vanguard Board of Editors to be very straight forward. But, as in everything about life, nothing is ever straight forward.

Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Worldwide, has forewarned that the countdown to the end has started.

With 410 days away from the next Presidential Election, it is not out of place to assert that the pace and pattern of governance for most of the year 2018 will be shadowed by political considerations.

HE remains one of the most unassuming governors in Nigeria, yet very active in the provision of strong, dynamic and benevolent leadership to the government and people of Kano State.

IJAW leaders in Edo State have appealed to the Ijaw Freedom Fighters, IFF, which issued a 21-day ultimatum to Edo State governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, and Oba of Benin, to apologise to the Ijaw of Edo State for their alleged hate speech, to shelve their threat.

DR. Okezie Ikpeazu
mounted the saddle of leadership in Abia State on May 29, 2015, on a promising note amid huge expectations.

President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, blamed the current fuel scarcity ravaging the nation on blackmailers, who, according to him, “instead of showing love, companionship and charity… chose this period to inflict severe hardship on us all by creating unnecessary fuel scarcity across the country.

AS Henry Longfellow once said “Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time”. These words aptly encapsulate what King Sunny Ade, born Sunday Adeniyi, 71 years ago, in Ondo State, means to the music world, not only in Nigeria but all over the world.

The Lagos State Government has recovered N13 million paid into accounts of dead colleagues and overpaid salaries of staff in its ministries and parastatals.

NIGERIANS are obviously outraged by allegations of a deliberate arrangement by marketers to foster fuel scarcity, during major public holidays, especially the year end festivities. Indeed, low and stable pricing and the elimination of scarcity were campaign platforms of the current administration.

FOR Governor Seriake Dickson, coming into office as Governor of Bayelsa State in 2012 was not the best of times as it was a tumultuous moment to lead a state that was bedridden with militancy and a decadent educational system both at the primary and secondary levels