The Police Command in Bayelsa has said that its personnel are working round the clock to ensure that the kidnapped mother of Samson Siasia, Nigeria’s former Super Eagles footballer is rescued from her captors.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged 35 state governors in Nigeria to “emulate the shining example of Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, who recently openly declared his assets, by publishing without further delay the full details of their asset declarations submitted to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB).

With the unveiling of the Second Edition of the book entitled “Handbook of Skill Acquisition Training and Empowerment Programmes”,Nigeria has joined the league of countries that have produced world class authors that have written books that have worldwide applicability.

In this interview first published by Sunday Guardian of February 17, 2008, Lt-General T.Y. Danjuma, who led the troops that killed then Head of State, General Aguiyi Ironsi, who was visiting Ibadan, and his host, speaks on the events of that day.

It appears that subterranean steps are being deployed by some major political characters to effectively exacerbate the political crisis in Edo State.

A perusal of the ministerial list released by President Muhammadu Buhari showed that the camps of some supposed godfathers in the South-West geopolitical zone lost out.

Ab initio, Nigeria was contrived by its founding fathers to be a country standing on a tripod, with Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba leading the other numerous ethnic groups.

Mutual suspicion, distrust and mistrust that have attended relationships between the major ethnicities in the country again reared their ugly heads recently.

Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, says states where Fulani are not indigenes will not be required to implement the RUGA settlement initiative.

Colossians 1:12-14 “Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:”

Second Republic governor of Kaduna State, and a leader of the Peoples Redemption Party, (PRP), speaks on the state of the nation 53 years after the counter-coup of July 29, 1966.

PROFESSOR Banji Akintoye is a historian, and one of the leading scholars on the history of the Yoruba people. In this interview, Akintoye, who was Deputy Youth Leader of Action Group (AG) in the First Republic, expresses worry that the causes of the Jan 16, 1966 coup and the ‘revenge coup’ of July 29 of the same year are still staring Nigeria in the face. An Afenifere leader and senator who represented Ekiti Central in the Second Republic on the platform of then-Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) led by the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, he spoke to Sunday Vanguard in his Lagos residence last week.

Prince Deji Adeyanju, a human rights activist and convener, Concerned Nigerians, in this interview, says mass action may be staged to force the signing of the Electoral Act. 

Last Monday, thousands of Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) members, also known as the Shiites, whose spiritual leader in Nigeria is Sheik Ibrahim El Zakzaky, clashed with the police in Abuja during which the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Operations at the FCT Police Command, Usman Umar, was shot dead.