A police constable was at the weekend stabbed to death during a clash between factions of a transport union in Ajegunle area of Lagos.

The unending Jos religious crisis has continued to elicit comments from all quarters. Whereas some people blame Plateau government for the crisis, others believe it is the fault of Federal Government who has failed to take concrete action. But the Archbishop of Abuja Catholic Archdiocese, Most. Rev. John Onaiyekan, who is also the president of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has a different opinion.

U.S. Secretary for Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, is due in Abuja today on the invitation of the federal government to assess steps taken so far to strengthen aviation security at the nation’s international airports.

The shape of changes in the country’s socio-political life conceived by Acting President Goodluck Jonathan is beginning to emerge and the effectuation of the plan is to start in the next five weeks if not days, Sunday Vanguard can reveal.

This report examines the reason why politicians are usually preferred to technocrats for ministerial assignments in a country that is yet to come to terms with the real essence of true nationhood. It also looks at the first hours of the newly constituted Executive Council of the Federation, EXCOF.