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The police had warned against receiving gift items from unknown persons during and after the yuletide.
Speaking on the incident, the Commissioner of Police, Mr.Marvel Akpoyibo, said the suspect was helping the command with relevant information.

TWENTY-THREE years after the death of Mr. Dele Giwa, founding editor of Newswatch Magazine, via a parcel bomb, commercial activities were temporarily stalled yesterday on Ikorodu Road, Onipanu, Lagos, after an explosion rocked a nine-storey building where Superscreen Television has its offices.

Fresh facts emerging suggest that President Umaru Yar’Adua may not return to Nigeria soon, based on the instructions of his medical minders, Vanguard can authoritatively reveal.

“It is not just about NNPC, really, but how we manage the entire downstream sector of the petroleum industry because of the inefficiencies, which have led to the haemorrhage, not leakage, that we currently experience in that sector.

Some members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) are beginning to adjust to the reality of the long absence of President Umaru Yar’Adua from the country and especially the weekly meetings of the council currently chaired by Vice President Goodluck Jonathan.

ABOUT 35 militants, belonging to the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND), armed with rocket launchers, heavy calibre machine guns and assault rifles attacked in the early hours of yesterday, a major Shell/Chevron crude oil pipeline located in Abonema, Rivers state.

Specifically, Saturday Vanguard authoritatively gathered yesterday that majority of serving justices of the Supreme Court, including the outgoing Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi, disagreed with the position of the court on the matter.

THE reinstated gubernatorial candidate of the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Anambra state , Professor Charles Soludo has attributed his victory at the Supreme Court to the will of God and the people and a demonstration that the judiciary was the last hope of the common man.

By Emeka Mamah Kaduna — The northern socio-cultural organisation, Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has added its weight in support of using provisions of the nation’s Constitution if the positioAn of the President becomes vacant. “In the event of any need to engage in politics of succession, it is the position of ACF that the provisions […]

“I don’t think it is necessary for us to continue saying one thing over and over, because nothing has changed. The only thing that has changed is that he is responding to treatment, well, it is the same, last week. I told you he is responding to treatment and that is true. Akunyili said.

Attorney-General of the Federation, Chief Michael Kaase Aondoakaa (SAN), also said yesterday that so far President Yar’Adua is still breathing, nobody can stop him from governing the country even on his sick bed except and until he himself declares that he is no longer fit to exercise his presidential powers.
Abba-Aji, who spoke yesterday, also flayed insinuations of an imminent end of the Yar‘Adua presidency.

President Umaru Yar`Adua will have no problem transferring power to Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan if his doctors determine that he is bound to a long stay in hospital, his Special Adviser on National Assembly Matters Senator Mohammed Abba Aji has declared.

ANOTHER round of fuel scarcity became apparent nationwide, Monday, 10 days to Christmas, leaving commuters stranded, businesses paralysed and Nigerians fleeced at the few filling stations where the product was available.