‘We’re building a professional, combat-ready Army’ — COAS
On the sidelines of the 163rd NADCEL 2026 in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, over the weekend, COAS, Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu, engaged senior media executives
Why I’m not proud to call Buhari my president — Aribisala
Dr. Femi Aribisala, a pastor and Vanguard columnist, in this interaction with Vanguard editors, ventilates his passion for President Goodluck Jonathan and explains his position on the person and politics of the president-elect, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari. Excerpt
Why my cabinet will be small – Buhari
I think this is a question meant for the party. I wish John Oyegun was here to answer you because we have a system. Just because I am the presidential candidate and the president-elect, I don’t think the system has allowed me to usurp the power of the party executives. But, certainly, in a multi-party democratic system, fundamentally, it is the number that matters for the people. But for the party, what matters is the ability to manage the number so that the majority will have its way and there will be justice. No matter what happens to the PDP by May 29, I assure you or I assure them through you that there will be justice in the APC.
We’ll tell Buhari the truth, what others may not tell him – Bukar, Senator-elect
The quest to know more about the person of Nigeria’s president-elect, General Mohammadu Buhari, retired, prompted the need to search for someone in Daura, home country of Buhari in Katsina State. Luckily, the name of the Senator-elect, Engr. Mustapha Bukar representing Katsina North popped up. The unscheduled visit to his house in Daura last Saturday produced the outcome below.
FG’s blunders in pipeline surveillance contracts —ERADIRI, IYC PRESIDENT
The pipeline that was blown up in Delta state had no bearing with the outcome of the March 28 election. Clearly the grievance of those behind it when I spoke to some of them was that they were not accommodated in the pipeline surveillance contracts awarded before the presidential election. I had warned before the jobs were awarded that part of why the pipelines were destroyed in the past in the region was because the contracts given out earlier by the federal government did not go to residents of most of the communities.
Tompolo should tell Diden, others to play by the rules— Newuwumi, Youth Devt Commissioner
I am not against the re-awarding of the surveillance contract to the company per say, I .am against one of the trustees representing the Itsekiri interest, Hon. Diden, who huge appetite for money has denied the people the benefit inherent in the contract. While I want to commend the federal government for awarding the contract, I want to also want to urge them and other trustees of the company to compel Hon.
