General Overseer and Senior Pastor of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye has arrived at the 2010 End of Year Prayer/Thanksgiving of Vanguard Christian Fellowship. He arrived the premises of Vanguard at exactly 12.10. On arrival,  he paid a courtesy call to the chairman of Vanguard Media Limited, Mr. Sam […]

THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has sided with governors in the dispute over the Electoral Act amendment bill that aims to make federal legislators automatic members of the National Executive Committees of the nation’s political parties.

It was all tears Monday at the Onopa suburb of Yenagoa the Bayelsa State when the charred remains of a pregnant woman and her three year old son were evacuated from the scene of Sunday night inferno in which two other persons reportedly from injuries sustained at the hospital.

CENTRAL Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido, weekend, raised alarm over the high cost of maintaining the National Assembly which he put at 25 per cent of the nation’s expenditure, saying if the trend was not checked, it would continue to stall the growth and development of the nation’s economy.

AGGRIEVED ex-militants, under the aegis of the Niger-Delta Liberation Force, NDLF, led by “General” John Togo, who breached the 2009 amnesty agreement they signed with the Federal Government by returning to the creeks, mid-November, have now agreed to a cessation of hostilities.

The new Governor of Osun State, Engr Rauf Aregbesola has ordered the immediate frozen of all public accounts at all levels in the state, calling on the Accountant General of the state to present details of state account till November 26, to his office immediately.

Peerhaps, no other politician in this 4th Republic has demonstrated so much doggedness and commitment to what he believes in than former Lagos State governor Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

AFTER over three years of legal battle, Engineer Rauf Aregbesola, who contested on the platform of the Action Congress, AC has been declared winner of the April 14, 2007 governorship election.

Justices of the Federal Appeal Court, Ibadan have declared Rauf Aregbesola, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) candidate the winner of the 2007 governorship election in Osun State and ordered that he be sworn in as governor by 12 noon tomorrow. More later Wild jubilation in Osun

ERSTWHILE President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, mocked the prospect of his former deputy, Atiku Abubakar, becoming the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

AN end to the looming industrial crises across Nigeria yesterday appears in sight as the National Council of State (NCS), the highest advisory council in the country approved the proposed N18, 000 National Minimum Wage as bench mark for all workers in the country.

A 40 million member Christian Council of Nigeria has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to publish the names of the people found to be connected to importation of arms into the country.

DESPITE his emergence as the consensus aspirant of the Mallam Adamu Ciroma-led Northern Political Leaders Forum, NPLF for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential ticket, Atiku Abubakar was, last night, facing fresh hurdles to his long sought presidential aspiration.

The Senate Wednesday failed to approve the request by President Goodluck Jonathan to borrow $3.702 billion to develop the power sector, following observations by senators that it was unclear.

A DAY after he was chosen as a consensus presidential aspirant by the Northern Political Leaders Forum, NPLF, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, drew the battle line with President Goodluck Jonathan on what he described as the President’s failures in managing the economy and upholding the zoning principle of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.