BY SOLA OGUNDIPE EVEN as the Nigerian Medical Association has backed down on the threatened strike action following personal intervention by Vice President Goodluck Jonathan at the instance of the Health Minister, Prof. Babatunde Osotimehin, the effect of the on-going medical and health workers’ strike remained palpable. The NMA met yesterday to shelve the proposed […]

PANDEMONIUM broke out,  yesterday, at Uso Lane, off Edo Street, Benin-City, after a 28 year-old lady, Helen, was allegedly murdered by her boy friend. Meanwhile, suspected kidnappers, yesterday, abducted a Benin based business mogul, Chief Mike Inegbenebo, at his residence in GRA, Benin City.  Sunday Vanguard learnt that he was abducted by a three-man gang as he […]

BY KOLADE LAREWAJU TWO suspected human parts dealers were yesterday burnt to death by an irate mob for allegedly being in possession of  human parts. The duo were burnt at about noon in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital. Eyewitness account said that three men dressed as if they were mentally unbalanced were accosted by people close […]

BY TONY EDIKE THE joy of the robbers that raided four commercial banks in Nsukka, Enugu State on Friday lasted only a few hours after policemen from Anambra and Enugu went after them and succeeded in killing two of them and recovered sophisticated weapons, charms and N4.5 million cash. Police sources said yesterday that the […]

BY  SAM OYADONGHA Yenagoa – PRESIDENT Umaru Yar’Adua is due in Yenagoa tomorrow at the start of his two-day rescheduled tour of Bayelsa State. Consequently, security has been beefed up in and around Yenagoa the capital city by the combined team of the police and the Joint Task Force which combat vehicles could be seen […]