GOVERNOR Benedict Ayade of Cross River State has pledged to support former President Goodluck Jonathan if the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, presents him as the party’s flagbearer for the 2023 election.

By Chinonso Alozie The Mass burial of the victims of the last Friday night explosion at an illegal oil refinery in Abaezi community in Ohaji/Egbema local government area of Imo state, has started on Tuesday in the area. The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Owerri Head of Operations, Nnaji Ifeanyi, confirmed this to Vanguard in […]

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met separately behind closed-doors with the Sokoto State governor, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, and the Kebbi State, governor, Atiku Bagudu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Governor Tambuwal is one of the front runners for the opposition People’s Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential ticket for next year’s election, while Bagudu […]

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA—INDICATIONS emerged yesterday that the Federal Government may have implemented the ‘no work, no pay’ policy for the striking university-based unions. This is even as the unions lamented that despite all the notices and letters sent to the federal government over the ongoing strike in the public universities, the government has not deemed […]

Southern and Middle Belt leaders yesterday converged on Abuja, the nation’s capital, and again restated their call for power-shift to the South-East, saying since all the other zones have taken their turns at the presidency, it would be unjust to deny Ndigbo a seat at the table.