The Eagles this evening defeated the Mambas of Mozambique in their final group match at the African Nations Cup in Angola.

THE renewed violence in Jos, the Plateau State capital, appeared to have overwhelmed security agencies deployed to quell it when it erupted on Sunday.

FOLLOWING the religious crisis that engulfed Jos metropolises last Sunday, the security agents in the country have been put on red alert.

NOT less than 1,500 internally displaced persons have taken refuge at the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, regional academy in Jos, following another round of violent crisis that erupted in the Nasarawa Gwom district of Jos, Plateau State capital, weekend.

SECURITY has been beefed up in Jos, the Plateau State capital, following an outbreak of fresh violence in parts of the city which left about 15 people dead, yesterday. Many were reported injured while about four houses were torched in the skirmish which again took ethno-religious dimension reopening hostilities of the 28 November, 2008 crisis.

Vice President Goodluck Jonathan warned, yesterday, that “key officers of government” exploiting the absence of President Umaru Yar’Adua from the country to “cause acrimony and disunity” risked sanction.

Unless the nation’s refining capacity is raised, the fuel scarcity persistent in the country is likely to continue in years to come, Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Mohamed Sanusi Barkindo has said.

AGITATIONS raged in the Senate, yesterday, over the continued absence of President Umaru Yar’Adua, with a group of senators poised for a showdown with its leadership and President Yar’Adua.

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, declared that Vice President Jonathan Goodluck is empowered by the 1999 Constitution to exercise, in the absence of President Umaru Yar’Adua, all the powers vested in him, including signing of sensitive documents, so far such powers are delegated to him.

FOR three hours and three minutes yesterday, thousands of aggrieved Nigerians led by the Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, took to the streets in Abuja, the nation’s capital, to protest the French leave embarked upon by the ailing President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua since November 23, last year.

50 days, after leaving Nigeria for medical treatment in Saudi Arabia with rumoured death in a section of the media, President Umar Musa Yar’Adua has spoken at last!

AFTER many weeks of keeping Nigerians in a graveyard silence, the Presidency apparently reacting to another round of widespread speculations of the death of the ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua, yesterday, urged Nigerians to discountenance the story which it described as not only false, but also a figment of the writers’ imagination.

NOBEL laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka and former presidential candidate of All Nigerian Peoples Party, ANPP, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), will tomorrow lead other eminent Nigerians to the National Assembly to protest against the continued absence of President Umaru Yar’Adua from the country.

Contrary to repeated assurances by Federal Government officials that President Umaru Yar’Adua’s long absence from his duty post in Abuja will neither slow down nor disrupt state affairs, information available to Sunday Vanguard suggests otherwise.

The Federal Government will on Jan.11, pay N41 billion oil subsidy arrears owed major marketers for the second quarter of 2009.