IKEMBA Nnewi and former leader of defunct Republic of Biafra, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, was, yesterday, admitted at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, UNTH, Enugu following a stroke which had kept him unconscious since last week.

The Joint Task Force has recorded a major success in its fight against crude oil theft with the inception of two vessels loaded with 138,800 litres of illegally refined petroleum products in Bayelsa State worth millions of naira.

THE National Assembly, in an obvious bow to public anger, weekend, promised to cut its salaries and other perks of office for 2011, by over thirty percent.

PROFESSOR Barth Nnaji, is the Presidential Adviser on Power and also, the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Power, (PTFP) saddled with the responsibility of driving the government power reform process which has the ultimate aim out transferring the power sector, represented by the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN to private sector.

Barely 48 hours after 21 governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan for the 2011 presidential election, 75 PDP senators yesterday threw their weight behind him.

P rofessor Bolaji Akinyemi was Foreign Affairs Minister during the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida administration.
As a foreign policy expert, Sunday Vanguard went after him in the wake of the Wikileaks saga last week and made some startling discoveries about Nigeria’s foreign policy slipshod.

Thursday’s endorsement of President Goodluck Jonathan for next year’s election by 21 PDP governors did not come on a platter of gold after all, according to fresh information from the PDP National Secretariat, venue of the deal.

THE battle for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential ticket took a near definitive turn, yesterday, after 21 Governors belonging to the party signed a declaration of support for President Goodluck Jonathan’s 2011 presidential bid.

Fuji exponent Alhaji Sikiru Ololade Ayinde Balogun (Ayinde Barrister) is dead. He died this morning at the age of 62 years in a London hospital.

LAGOS—THE rank of Nigeria’s founding fathers was depleted further, yesterday, with the death of frontline nationalist and elder statesman, Chief Anthony Eromosele Enahoro. He died after a protracted battle with diabetes at his GRA residence in Benin City at the age of 87.