By Chnedu Adonu, ENUGU Two police orderlies of the Enugu State Commissioner for Lands, Chidi Aroh, were, Sunday, killed as gunmen attacked the commissioner in Anambra State. A source told Vanguard that the two officers, Inspector David Adabu and one Inspector Solomon, lost their lives as they were allegedly ambushed by the gunmen in Anambra […]

By Sylvester Kwentua It was a gathering of celebrities on Sunday night in Lagos, as John Nunayon, a fast rising CEO, celebrated his birthday. In a gathering filled with friends and well wishers, the steal of the party was when celebrities, mostly comedians, stormed the event, to add glamour to it. Popular radio personality, Rugged […]

By Sola Ebiseni MY  father of blessed memory, Pa Shadrack Ebido Ebiseni, taught me early in life, the virtue of loyalty in politics and indeed any human relationship. He was the Baale of our village in the riverine area of Ado-Odo now in Ogun State where I was born. Though not a politician seeking office, […]

The Court ruling on Thursday, 17th February, 2022 which struck out the ill-fated suit filed by a certain Tableland Society for the Oppressed (TSFO) against the Federal University Oye-Ekiti, (FUOYE) Chairman of the Council, Registrar and the Vice-Chacellor of the University, Prof. Abayomi Sunday Fasina, came as a soothing balm and a promising development from […]

By Eric Teniola This is a continuation of Dr Tahir’s address to the Constituent Assembly on December 14, 1977, making a case for a return to the parliamentary system of government. The first part was published last week. I also believe that the aims of Nigeria  are being defeated by insistence on things which we […]

By Levinus Nwabughiogu Abuja — A melodrama, Monday, engulfed the public hearing of the Joint Committees on Customs and Excise, Finance and Banking and Currency of the House of Representatives probing the delay in the take off of Nigeria Customs Services E-Customs modernisation project. The project when completed was expected to automate the activities of […]

Treating suicide attempts as crimes under our laws is illogical. It no longer makes sense and should be discarded forthwith. This is what a private member’s Bill sponsored by Francis Waive (Ughelli North/South/Udu) in the House of Representatives seeks to achieve. We call on the National Assembly to give this Bill accelerated hearing and pass […]

“The production of garri being produced locally by our people is an attestation to the fact that there is wealth in farming”

The Niger Delta Rescue Movement (NDRM) has vowed not to back the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 elections following the delay of President Muhammadu Buhari to inaugurate a substantive board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The spokesman of NRDM, Jonathan Okwa, who disclosed this after its meeting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, on […]

Federal High Court, has granted Media Rights Agenda, MRA, leave to apply for an order of mandamus against Malami, SAN, over the implementation of the Anti-Torture Act, 2017

“We put on record the fact that many people were disenfranchised”

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA– The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Monday, struck out a suit that sought to disqualify former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, from vying for the presidency in 2023. The suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/177, challenged Atiku’s eligibility on the premise that he is not a Nigerian by birth. A group, under the […]

“Bola Tinubu is one of the founders of the APC”.

He is unassuming and urbane. He is also sedate but highly fecund. His mien anywhere he goes is writ-large as it bears his trademark sartorial elegance

The Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Paulinus Nsirim, has reiterated that Rivers State is safe for business. Nsirim made the declaration, yesterday, when the newly elected executive body of the Port Harcourt Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, PHCCIMA, paid him a courtesy visit in his office in Port Harcourt. The commissioner charged […]