Vanguard has been reliably informed that whereas some senators are having informal discussions on the way forward, specifically on how to amend Sections 144 and 145, and how to fine-tune their strategy when they resume tomorrow, some powerful individuals, including ministers and some very close aides to President Yar’Adua are attempting to frustrate the move.

THE Senate is launching, this week, an initiative to resolve the political impasse created by President Umaru Yar’Adua’s long absence from the country.

SHE is a prophetess. And like every prophetess honours always come from abroad. She is an activist. And like every activist she is misunderstood. But unlike many prophetess and activists, Mrs. Maryam Babangida, Nigeria’s First Lady, is not bitter. Bitterness has no place in her system. No grudges. No ill-feelings. Rather, Mrs. Babangida is at peace with herself, working dedicatedly and selflessly to improve the lot of the Nigerian woman in particular and Nigerians in general.

We wish our numerous readers happy and a prosperous New Year.

IN SPITE of the controversy over his legal powers, the out-going Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi, yesterday, in Abuja, swore in Justice Aloysius Iyorgyer Katsina-Alu as the 11th Chief Justice of Nigeria.

The Attorney-General of the Federation, Chief Michael Kaase Aondoakaa (SAN), yesterday, told a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja that President Umaru Yar’Adua would neither resign his office nor allow his Vice, Dr. Jonathan Goodluck, to act as President for a second on account of his health.

Political hawks have successfully convinced President Umaru Yar’Adua to endorse the Supplementary Budget to be operated till next March, and also worked on him not to sign another document to allow Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan act as President, Vanguard can authoritatively reveal.

Former First Lady and founder of the Better Life for Rural Women, Mrs. Maryam Babangida, is dead.
She died at City Hope Hospital, California, United States of America, at 12 noon Nigerian local time, with her husband of over three decades, General Ibrahim Babangida, beside her sick bed.

United States federal officials have charged the 23-year old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab , arrested over an attempted terror attack on a US airliner on Christmas Day.

AN attempted terrorist attack on a Christmas Day flight in the United States of America (US) began with a pop and a puff of smoke, sending passengers scrambling to tackle a Nigerian man who claimed to be acting on orders from al-Qaida to blow up the airliner, officials and travellers said.