By Chioma Obinna and Chinyere Amalu ABUJA —Following  the World Health Organization’s advice for countries to be vigilant and strengthen their disease surveillance to ensure prompt detection, Minister of Health, Professor Babatunde Osotimehin has tasked the media to sustain the high level of awareness about the A(H1N1) Influenza among the citizenry of the country. Osotimehin […]

By Tony Edike ENUGU—MINISTER of Information and Communication, Prof Dora Akunyili has called on religious leaders in the country to participate actively in the ongoing campaign by the Federal Government to instill a renewed spirit of patriotism in Nigerians through attitudinal change. Akunyili who made the appeal while delivering a lecture at the 14th Synod […]

By Emmanuel Aziken Abuja—Prominent politicians from Imo State, including Governor Ikedim Ohakim and National Assembly members from the State were yesterday locked in a meeting, designed to chart a new political direction for the Governor and his supporters. Vanguard learnt yesterday, that the meeting was upon the full reconciliation of former Governor Achike Udenwa and […]

By Isiaka Oyibo LOKOJA — ANGRY commercial motorcyclists, popularly known as Okada riders, yesterday, invaded the Kogi State Command of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), and chased some of the officials out while others were beaten up. The commercial motorcyclists, said to be about 100 in number, were  said to have destroyed no fewer […]

By Chris Ochayi ABUJA—The Federal Council of the Nigeria Civil Service Union (NCSU) has decried the continued negligence of the nation’s power sector by the administration, warning that the country’s economy is suffering and might collapse if urgent step is not taken to address the sector. The trade union, which noted this drift in a […]

By Emma Amaize & Ola Ajayi WARRI — THE price of crude oil, yesterday, rose above the $70 per barrel mark as militants in the early hours of the day bombed an offshore platform of the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) located at Forcados in Delta State and purportedly sank a gunboat carrying between 20-23 […]

The Majority Leader of the House, Mr. Frank Okiye, had under matters of urgent public importance, drew the attention of the House to a press interview purportedly granted by Shaiubu, where he was quoted as saying that “the Speaker, Mr. Zakawanu Garuba is deceiving us.”

He recalled in his address to the community how in connivance with some other youths, whom he said had also renounced militancy, took two expatriates hostage for about ten hours, confessing that the operation was later foiled by the police.

By Peter Okhiria The Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) has chided the Federal Government on its handling of the present ASUU crisis, saying instead of the crisis which have bedeviled the nation’s education sector, the Federal Government should introduce free education at all levels in the country. The party said the country could afford to foot […]

I could hear voices but could not fathom what they were saying. I could have stayed for eternity when all of a sudden I heard people shouting that they have found someone alive. That was how I was dragged out with my wife.

The Presidency yesterday commenced a lobby for the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) in the Senate as it emerged that government was getting zero revenue from some offshore oil production blocks as a result of fiscal arrangements with the joint ventures.

Legal fireworks are set to resume before the Supreme Court today in the cases filed by states against the Federal Government on illegal deductions from the Federation Account and breaches of Section 162 of the 1999 Constitution.

An agreement to build a gas pipeline from Nigeria across the Sahara Desert to Algeria will be signed next week in Abuja, Algerian Energy and Mines Minister Chakib Khelil said on Monday.

A former security guard to the late NADECO chieftain, Mr. Alfred Rewane, Lucky Igbinovia and his (Rewane’s) driver, Elvis Irenuna, yesterday narrated to a Lagos High Court how he was killed in October 1995.

Action Congress (AC) in Osun State yesterday suspended the party’s chairman of Odo-Otin local government area of the state, Chief B.O. Ewenla.