By Joseph Erunke THE Conference of Concerned Igbo Elders for Peace and National Unity, has condemned the growing spate of insecurity across the country, saying the ugly trend has the capability to undermine national sovereignty  if  not immediately halted. Accordingly, the concerned Igbo elders have tasked President Muhammadu Buhari to, as a matter of national […]

CEO of EIN Educational Services and chairman of Initiatives for Educational Development and Literacy, an international organisation that has trained 17,000 classroom teachers and 10,000 school administrators in Nigeria and Dubai, UAE, spoke with Vanguard after a capacity-building programme for selected private school administrators at the Leads City University, Ibadan. Excerpts:

The Interim Administrator of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Mr Efiong Akwa, has said that the commission would  put in more efforts to ensure the completion of the 24-kilometre dual carriage way linking Imo and Rivers states through oil-bearing communities in both states. Akwa stated this when he led a team of NDDC directors […]

By Levinus Nwabughiogu Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC,  Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo has said that the need to amend the commission’s Act was to make it more development orientated in the service of the region. He said that many deficiencies inherent in the extant laws regulating the affairs of the commission […]

By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State,  has called on the National Assembly Joint Committee on Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, to put in place  a legislation that would guarantee peace, fairness, equity and justice for  host communities in the oil industry. Okowa represented by his deputy, Kingsley Otuaro, made the […]

By Henry Ojelu THE Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, yesterday, asked President Muhammadu Buhari to investigate all the alleged missing N11 trillion funds allocated for the execution of electricity projects since 1999. Speaking at a press conference, SERAP’s Deputy Director, Oluwadare Kolawole, said that despite President Buhari’s promise to intensify the fight against corruption, […]

Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, yesterday, gave an account of his loss during the #EndSARS protests, which was hijacked by hoodlums on October, last year, disclosing that the hoodlums who invaded his palace, carting  away his staff of office, also stole a sum of $2 million and N17 million, belonging to him. The monarch disclosed […]

By Davies Iheamnachor One of the suspects linked to the murder of the Paramount Ruler of Zakpo community in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State has been arrested by operatives of the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID. The suspect, Kosi Tigidan, is reported to have secured his release following the Director of Public Prosecutions, […]

GOVERNOR Seyi Makinde of Oyo State said, yesterday, that private investors who wish to rear cattle in the state would have to procure land for ranching, noting that the state government would not provide land for such a venture. Makinde was commenting on the reactions that trailed his statement on the implementation of the National […]

By Lawani Mikairu, Bashir Bello & Ibrahim Hassan The ‘’no fly zone’’ order given by President Muhammadu Buhari over Zamfara State on Tuesday appears to have impacted positively on banditry in Birnin-Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State yesterday, as bandits ran helter-skelter, abandoning their motorcycles on sighting military fighter jets in the area, and […]