2027: Insecurity, economy threaten Tinubu’s re-election — Adebayo
By Luminous Jannamike ABUJA – The worsening insecurity and economic hardship in Nigeria could provide the opposition with a potent weapon against President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 general elections, Head of the Directorate of Media and Communications, Adewole Adebayo-Bugaje Presidential Campaign, Comrade Mark Adebayo, has said. Adebayo said rising kidnappings, banditry and other forms […]
Ajibola panel: Lar harps on peaceful co-existence
By Taye Obateru &Â Â Doyin Ojosipe Jos -Â Former National Chairman of the PDP and first civilian governor of Plateau State, Chief Solomon Lar, took his turn yesterday at the Prince Bola Ajibola Commission of Inquiry into the recent Jos crisis, stressing the need for an end to the recurring disturbances in the state. He […]
N96bn govt debt killing PHCN – Labour
…issues 21-day ultimatum on state of power By Victor Ahiuma-Young LAGOS – ORGANISED Labour in the the nation’s electricity sector, has accused the management of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), of shielding N5billion tariff Order fund, optic fibre fund from Al-hari, Dangote phase three and others. Under the umbrella of the National Union […]
Accidents claim 14, injure others in Kogi
By Isiaka Oyibo LOKOJA — NO fewer than 14 persons yesterday lost their lives and scores of others injured in two separate accidents that occurred between Lokoja and Kotonkarfi axis of Kogi State. In one of the accidents that occurred at about 2 a.m. on the Jamata bridge, Vanguard gathered that it involved a J5 […]
NA, SSS other security agencies meet over sectarian crisis
By Abdallah el-Kurebe Sokoto – Security agencies in Sokoto State comprising the Nigerian Army, Police, State Security Service (SSS), Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corp, (NSCDC), National Drugs Laws Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Immig-ration and Nigerian Prison Service ( NPS) met yesterday to avert a re-occurrence of sectarian crisis which engulfed […]
Should we Rebrand or MEND Nigeria?
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.
