Lagos has recorded some heart-breaking boat mishaps in recent time, especially in places like Festac Town, Apapa and Lagos Island. The most recent at the Majidun area of Ikorodu sent a 38-year-old shipping company executive, Isaac Akere, his wife and about six others to their untimely death.

Emotionally devastated Delta family petitions Police AIG, Zone 5 to explain how their missing brother could have withdrawn N2.5m from own account nine days after the CID, Delta Police Command said he was killed by robbers while in police custody.

Apart from general elections, there is an im portant issue which should engage the attention of Nigerians as the count down to 2015 gathers momentum: It is a paradigm shift in the area of transmission technology.

Some parents and guardians in Plateau have described as “very exorbitant’’, the N1, 500 they were being charged by JAMB for scratch card to access the examination result.

Amid the raging insurgency in the North-east, the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, says, contrary to the claim in some quarters, Christians, rather than Muslims, are the targets of the Boko Haram Islamist group. Oritsejafor lists six ways to end the insurgent attacks including northern leaders engaging Boko Haram in dialogue. The CAN leader spoke to Sunday Vanguard after the Daughters of Sarah convention, co-hosted by his World of Life Bible Church, Warri, Delta State.