DR Congo: Drunken soldier shoots dead 13 civilians, including 2-year-old girl
A drunken soldier in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DR Congo) troubled east opened fire on passers-by, killing at least 13 people including a two-year-old girl and seven women, sources said on Friday. The murders incensed locals who laid out the victims’ shrouded bodies. Youths built a big fire nearby and a local leader vilified […]
Hepatitis: Physicians call for increased awareness
Two physicians, on Friday, called for increased awareness of hepatitis in order to stem its tide among Nigerians. The physicians said in Lagos that hepatitis, which is an inflammatory condition of the liver, was a killer disease. One of the physicians, Dr. Eke Onwuka, said that a recent Nigeria’s HIV/AIDS Indicator and Impact Survey (NAIIS) […]
NDDC Probe: CSOs to Akpabio, publish names of NGOs as contract beneficiaries
By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja Niger Delta-based Nongovernmental Organisations, NGOs, Friday, challenged the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Sen God’swill Akpabio, to publish names of NGOs are contract beneficiaries of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, as claimed at the ongoing probe by the National Assembly Probe Committee. The demand was made by the Executive […]
Outrage as Boko Haram victims blast govt
•Say it’s cruel, insensitive reintegrating our killers, abandoning us •Giving terrorists money, vocational training, gross injustice to us •Govt should rethink, Buhari should rehabilitate us •Some of rehabilitated terrorists have rejoined Boko Haram •How can they change when you pamper them, give them money? •Saturday Vanguard visits IDP camps in Maiduguri, Kaduna, Abuja By Joseph […]
NDDC PROBE: Akpabio, IMC, lawmakers hiding something — N’Delta stakeholders
LEADERS, activists and other stakeholders in the Niger-Delta appraised the dirty war between the National Assembly on one side, Minister of Niger Delta, Senator Godswill Akpabio and Interim Management Committee, IMC, Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, on the other hand, during the week, and concluded that the parties were concealing the actual details of their deals from Nigerians.
The Magu Probe: Another Arugungu Fishing Festival ?
Oga Salami, may your days be long. Your lordship, you are highly revered, home and abroad. Oga, let me tell you what some people are saying now. They say this thing has become another Arugungu fishing festival. I don’t know why they are saying it but the come-today come-tomorrow has become, like they say, too much.
