Since 1999, successive administration has introduced new health policies and ensured massive renovation of dilapidated infrastructures and building of new ones as well as provided modern equipment and employment of health personnel, as part of efforts to boost health care delivery in the state.

…Those On Murder Trial Not Part Of Those To Be Released-Delta Attorney General By Emmanuel Okogba August 2, 2018, will never be forgotten by Mrs. Maimuna Hassan and her family members as her husband, Mallam Hassan Abu, gave up the ghost exactly nine months after he was allegedly stabbed with the butt of a cutlass-file […]

…Rescue of little Hope as a ‘witch child’ …Describes Nigeria as a country with many problems … Says Christianity is mixed with cocktail belief in witches and exorcism By Perez Brisibe IN 2008, Danish born Anja Ringgren Lovén was home watching television when she stumbled on a channel showing a documentary with the caption, “The […]

By Chinonso Alozie – Owerri Touting activities have gradually increased in and around the entrance of the Federal Secretariat along Port Harcourt road in Owerri, where the office of the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, is located. Vanguard visited the area on Wednesday in Owerri and was told that the touts position themselves strategically to swindle […]

Alhaji Junaid Yunus Olalekan, lslamic cleric and social analyst, speaks on money rituals. What is your take on the view that African traditional religion may die as Christianity and Islam flourish? African traditional religion is as multifaceted as the population of Africans. I don’t think that it will die as soon as it is being […]

Chief Ifayemi Elebuibon, a renowned traditionalist, is the Araba Awo of  Osogbo, Osun State. In this interview, Elebuibon speaks on money ritual against the backdrop of the recent killing of a student of Lagos State University (LASU), Favour Daley-Oladele, allegedly by her lover, Adeeko Owolabi, on the pretext that the ritual there-from will get demons […]

By Esther Onyegbula Favour Oladele: In the last two years, ritual killings have been on the increase. Although ritual crimes cut across almost all regions in the country, they are more pronounced in western and eastern states of Nigeria. Every week, there are reports of one ritual killing or the other. Some suspects are arrested […]

•Operation unlikely even with states reaching legal framework •What S/West states may do to legalise it By Soni Daniel Amotekun: Although the nation’s constitution puts security and defence on the Exclusive Legislative List, meaning that only the Federal Government has the power to make laws regarding security, the current skirmishes across the country, have provided […]

Government worker Iorliam Shija sits in one of the ramshackle bars along the banks of the Benue river in central Nigeria sipping from a gourd filled with frothy burukutu. The vinegary alcoholic beverage has been made here for generations from the fermented grains of sorghum and millet and consumed as a traditional alternative to beer. […]

THE history of music in Nigeria would be utterly incomplete without the inclusion of Commander Ebenezer Obey-Fabiyi, a Juju maestro that has bestrode the landscape for more than 40 years. He is one of Nigeria’s oldest living and active Juju musicians and is reputed to have churned out a musical repertoire of 660 songs, a feat yet to be equaled by any African musician in history.