By Henry Umoru ABUJA – FORMER Federal Commissioner of Information, Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday described the unfolding political scenario in Bauchi that culminated in the sack of the deputy governor, Alhaji Garba Mohammed Gadi as a display of shame by the state governor, Mallam Isa Yuguda, just as he said the governor is a disgrace […]

By Emeka Mamah Kaduna – Shouts of Allah akbah! Allah akbah! (God is great) filled  the air, yesterday, in Kaduna when all the 14 passengers in a commercial bus, which plunged into River Kaduna were rescued alive. The bus, said to have moved from Kawo, was going  to Sabon Tasha through Kasua (Central Market along […]

By Daniel Idonor ABUJA-THE Presidency yesterday distanced itself from claims that the authorities of Equatorial Guinea and Angola where Mr Hery Okah was arrested for gun running before his repatriation and subsequent detention in Nigeria were not properly briefed on the grant of amnesty to him and others by President Umaru Yar’Adua before his release […]

…to sanction erring officials By Oscarline Onwuemenyi Abuja – THE Presidency is “very angry” over the poor implementation of capital budgets by ministries, departments and agencies of government, according to the Director-General of the Bureau of Public Procurement, Engr. Emeka Ezeh. Ezeh, who was speaking yesterday during a meeting with civil society organisations in Abuja, […]

There was a mild drama yesterday before a Tinubu magistrate’s court, in Lagos Island, hearing the case of threat to life of Mr. Gbenga Adefaye, Vanguard Newspapers General Manager, (Publication), when the two handsets earlier seized from the two accused persons and admitted as court’s exhibits failed to work.