A group known as Celestial Church of Christ Unification and Reform Group (CCCRUG) has petitioned the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) on the need to avoid violent religious unrest as a result of people parading themselves as pastors of the CCC Worldwide in disobedience of the Supreme Court judgment which pronounced that there is no pastor within the church until its constitution is rewritten.

Chief Pini Jason Onyegbadue, ace Vanguard columnist now on “secondment” to Governor Ikedi Ohakim of Imo State as Special Adviser (Special Projects), in this interview, reflects on topical issues surrounding governance in his state, especially the activities of the volatile opposition.

Chief Omowale Kuye is the Osi Olubadan of Ibadanland. You could sit with him all day and the story of Nigeria, according to his personal experiences would never be exhausted. For an octogenarian, Kuye’s memory and recollection of events is unbelievably sharp. But he has one weakness: STUBBORNESS.
Before he was directly introduced to Olusegun Obasanjo with a view to working as a director of budget after the latter had complained over and over to the then Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance, Alhaji Liman Ciroma, Kuye has always worked as a very thorough individual and his work with the head of the Nigerian State was not about to change that. Read about his encounter with Obasanjo over budget. Born on May 18, 1928, Kuye struggled and made a life worth living for himself.

Crime Guard scooped that a night preceding the discovery, a deafening noise was heard coming from the building as if some people were pounding yam in a mortar. After a while, remarked some anonymous respondents, the noise calmed down and everybody went to sleep only for residents to wake up the following morning to behold a bag soaked in blood and carefully dumped in an uncompleted building on Olorungbebe street, Isuti-Egan in Igando.

The heart-wrenching tales associated with widowhood makes it a tough assignment for any reporter to engage a widow for an interview.

Reprieve is still far from the families of victims of Ezza, Ezillo commu- nal strife where so many have lost their lives. Since May 10, 2008 when the crisis started, the number of casualties is said to have risen to over 400 and this number keeps rising . Police men and other innocent travelers are daily exposed to danger along the Enugu-Abakaliki express road.

HONOURABLE Justice Okon Efreti Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, Tuesday, could not hide his emotions and disdain for violators of fundamental human rights when he tongue lashed the Police and condemned the alleged involvement of officials of the Lagos state government for the unlawful arrest, detention and subsequent arraignment at an Ikeja magistrate of Oba Gbolahan Akanbi Timson last year.

APART from the criminal implication, tell me, what could be more undignifying for a woman to ingest hard drug for whatever reason, knowing full well the health implication?” queried the Murtala Mohammed International Airport Commander of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Alhaji Hamza Umar.

Acting President, Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said the issue of whether he will run for presidency come 2011, is not on his agenda for now. Although he tried to trivialize the issue, he did not categorically deny pressures from several quarters, that he continued since he is perceived as the most credible of all those angling to be President for now.

FOR impersonating Nigeria’s former military head of state, General Ibrahim Badamosi Bababginda (Rtd) and the immediate past Inspector-General of Police Mike Okiro, a 38-year- old suspected fraudstar who identified himself as Chief Sam Nwankwo is presently telling operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) all his tricks in defrauding an Abidjan based businessman simply identified as Mr. Collins of a whopping $243.000 (about N36.09m)

‘We no go gree ooh, we no go gree’ LASTMA must go, we no go gree”. This was the resounding chant that was heard at almost all major bus-stops in Lagos Monday as commercial bus operators protested against their victimisation some government officials. Commuters who were caught unawares by the development found themselves stranded at various bus-stops as the protest later took a violent turn with buses being forced off the roads. It took the spirited intervention of the Police to calm the situation.

Some parliamentarians have reason to question the motive behind the recent visits of some religious leaders to recuperating President Umaru Yar’Adua. At an impromptu gathering last week at the Lawanson Bus-stop in Lagos, most of them dismissed the separate visits of Muslim clerics and Christian leaders, supposedly on the invitation of some aides of the ailing President, as nothing but a carefully contrived political move to hoodwink the populace that the President is presently on the speed lane of recovery.

Even though it is no longer news that some men, known as homosexuals or gays, date fellow men, such perverted sexual practice has always been carried out in secret because of the public condemnation it attracts. But this was not the case in Festac town on Easter Monday as two males were caught right in the act inside a Mercedes Benz 230 car.

Oluseye Ogunlewe’s bluntness may come with a tinge of contradiction in what he professes. When you ask a man about his tenure as minister of works and member of the Executive Council of the Federation, EXCOF, in the Olusegun Obasanjo government and he tells you that there is no cabinet but a President-in-Council, you begin to wonder what manner of EXCOF was in place.

Oluseye Ogunlewe’s bluntness may come with a tinge of contradiction in what he professes. When you ask a man about his tenure as minister of works and member of the Executive Council of the Federation, EXCOF, in the Olusegun Obasanjo government and he tells you that there is no cabinet but a President-in-Council, you begin to wonder what manner of EXCOF was in place.