Why grains importation won’t happen soon – Stakeholders
There may be delay in implementation of the zero-tariff grains importation policy of the federal government as Financial Vanguard reliably learnt at the weekend that the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) is yet to receive a comprehensive list of the firms to select for participation in the intervention programme.
Why OBJ hit out at Yar’Adua
THURSDAY’S public declaration by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that President Umaru Yar’Adua should resign if his health is impending him from performing in office is a fallout of the last meeting of the Board of Trustees, BOT of the PDP in Abuja, Sunday Vanguard can now reveal.
Andoakaa hails judgment
“It is a good judgment. All the issues, six in number, brought by the plaintiffs, the court dismissed them.
FEC gets 14 days to decide on Yar’Adua
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday ordered the Federation Executive Council (FEC) 14 days to prove medically that President Umaru Yar’Adua was fit to perform his duties.
God punish me if I imposed Yar’Adua – Obasanjo
FOLLOWING the controversy surrounding the handing over to Vice President Goodluck Jonathan in a constitutional manner by President Umaru Yar’Adua, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, urged Yar’Adua to tread the path of honour by carrying out what was expected of him. He however did not state what was expected .
Yar’Adua: Nigerians suffer unduly, Say Anyim, Mantu, 39 others
A DELEGATION of 41 eminent Nigerians led by a former President of the Senate, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim and his Deputy, Senator Ibrahim Mantu, yesterday, called on President Umaru Yar‘Adua to urgently transmit a letter of his incapacitation to the National Assembly to salvage the nation’s democracy from danger.
Nigeria mauls Mosambique 3-0
The Eagles this evening defeated the Mambas of Mozambique in their final group match at the African Nations Cup in Angola.
Jonathan decries bloodbath in Jos
THE renewed violence in Jos, the Plateau State capital, appeared to have overwhelmed security agencies deployed to quell it when it erupted on Sunday.
Jos crisis : Police beef up security
FOLLOWING the religious crisis that engulfed Jos metropolises last Sunday, the security agents in the country have been put on red alert.
JOS: Food crisis hits displaced persons
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.
10 killed in fresh Jos violence
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.
