By Bose Adebayo A 54-year-old  prophet / founder of Celestial Church of Christ, CCC, Messiah Parish,  Meiran, a suburb of Lagos, Prophet Olusola Oluwatuyi, was Tuesday afternoon, shot dead in his church during a meeting with a man, alleged to be a retired Police officer. According to eye witnesses,  the deceased, fondly called, Messiah by his members […]

THE Northern Governors’ Forum, yesterday, failed to reach a consensus on the contentious issue of zoning. However, the communiqué issued by the governors at the end of the meeting insisted that the 1999 Constitution did not bar any individual from seeking any office….

IT was a season of approval for the presumed ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan to contest next year’s elections as it received boosts from his South-South geo-political zone and the Kaduna State chapter of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday.

The Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufai has lamented the decay in the nation’s educational sector but assured that the Federal government is committed to addressing the rot in order to meet the educational needs of all Nigerian

INSPECTOR General of Police, Ogbonna Onovo, said, weekend, that at the last count, there were about 500 kidnapping suspects in Police cells across the country with many of them having confessed to the criminal act and others caught in the act.

A possible postponement of the January 2011 polls was top of the agenda when President Goodluck Jonathan met the leadership of the National Assembly on Wednesday night in Abuja, Sunday Vanguard can now reveal.

Nneka Egbuna may be petite, but her soulful voice makes her stand tall and the world is eagerly waiting to see just how far she can go with her music.

It was difficult under Abacha. US had a policy of sanctions against the Abacha government. As the Abacha government became more dictatorial, it became necessary to speak out against it. And the more I did it, the more the Abacha government did not like it and tried to make things difficult.

“When I was chosen as the PDP chairman, I resolved to bring Igbos together. I have not even started when Igbos on their own started coming together, by coming out in Enugu to receive me despite party differences.”

NATIONAL Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, yesterday, said the commission would need between N55 billion and N72 billion to compile a new voters register that would guarantee the conduct of credible elections in 2011.

THE Senate Thursday passed the new electoral act, putting the conduct of presidential and National Assembly elections ahead of governorship and houses of assembly elections.

THE plot against President Goodluck Jonathan’s emergence as presidential candidate of the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, gathered momentum, yesterday, as the Plateau State Chapter of the Northern Political Forum, NPLF, threatened that the North would pull out of the PDP.

According to the Director-General of the Directorate of Technical Cooperation in Africa, Dr. Sule Yakubu, over 250,000 children were born to Nigerian soldiers who participated in peace keeping in ECOMOG operations in Liberia..

THE National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, yesterday, ordered resident electoral commissioners not to accept any form of assistance from state governments as doing so would compromise their independence.

British Nmachi Ihegboro has amazed genetics experts who say the little girl is NOT an albino.
Dad Ben, 44, a customer services adviser, admitted: “We both just sat there after the birth staring at her.”