Prof, we mourn you as we remember how you sacrificed your health, in service of this ungrateful country, during the rigorous seating of President Yar’Adua’s Technical Committee on the Niger Delta; which (as we found out within the first twenty-four hours of its inauguration) was set up to fail! But true progressive Nigerians saluted the determination of yourself and your fellow forty-eight other colleagues to produce the supposedly-desired Report against all odds.

Particularly, Ateke told Vanguard in a telephone interview yesterday, that he would prefer the the former UN scribe, Mr. Kofi Annan, to witness the dropping of arms by the militants “because I want to surrender my arms in a genuine environment”.

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has debunked insinuations in some quarters concerning disruptions in the country’s SAT 3 Fibre Optic Cable.

RELIEF may soon come for the people and government of Cross River State over the controversial ceding of 76 oil wells to Akwa Ibom State as President Umaru Yar’Adua has finally subscribed to a political settlement between the parties.The Director-General, National Boundary Commission, (NBC), Mr. Sadiq Diggi, told Vanguard, in Abuja.

Political economist and Director of Lagos Business School, Professor Pat Utomi and other stakeholders in the oil and gas industry, yesterday, urged the Federal Government to exercise caution over the controversial Petroleum Industry Bill.

The Senate yesterday approved N10 billion in the 2009 supplementary budget to enable the Federal Government execute the amnesty granted by President Umaru Yar’Adua to militants in the Niger Delta region.

The Police in Lagos have shot dead two suspects who were said to be members of a robbery gang allegedly terrorizing residents of Ebute-Metta area of Lagos and its environs during a gun battle, even as they have arrested a man who disguises as a woman to extort money from unsuspecting individuals, particularly men.

By Chris Ochayi ABUJA—Another twist has been added to the ongoing strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), as a lecturer with the University of Nigeria Nsukka, Prof George Amadi took a swipe at the Chairman, Senate Committee on Education, Senator Joy Emordi, describing her as not being a patriot. Prof Amadi […]

A mentally deranged man, Suara Kazeem who was alleged to have clubbed his parents to death has now been arrested by the Oyo State Police Command.

FRESH tension has pervaded the political atmosphere in Oyo State following a confession by one Hammed Yusuf that the state government listed five prominent Ibadan politicians for elimination.