By Emma Amaize WARR I -  MOVEMENT for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) says it does not require the blessings of every militant leader in the region to constitute a negotiating team to present its demands to the Federal Government. Spokesman of the group, Jomo Gbomo in an exclusive electronic mail response to Vanguard […]

By KOLADE OLAREWAJU & OLA AJAYI THOUSANDS of commuters and motorists on the failed Sagamu-Benin road were stranded for hours yesterday after one of the bridges on the nation’s most strategic link between the south-west, south-south and south-east was submerged by flood. The affected bridge is at J4 area, between Ijebu-Ode and Ogbere in Ogun […]

BY SAM EYOBOKA THE Greece ambassador in  Nigeria,, Mr. Haris Dafaranos and his wife, Haralambo,  at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja,  on Friday evening,  labelled Nigerians thieves. The couple were at the reception of the luxurious hotel  when the wife found a wrist watch belonging to a  customer of the hotel, Mr. Notore Kolagbodi, who […]

TWELVE Nigerian banks have been named among the top 1000 commercial banks across the world and the top 20 in sub-Saharan Africa by the Banker magazine published by the Times of London. On the list are First Bank (fifth in sub-Saharan Africa and 215th in the world); Zenith (sixth/218th); Oceanic (seventh/327th); Intercontinental (eighth/335th); UBA (ninth/356th); […]

…urges Akwa Ibom to reject Cross River’s 76 oil wells THE  Coalition of Ethnic Nationalities of Nigeria (CENN) has asked the Federal Government to draw up a “Marshal Plan” to reconstruct, rehabilitate and compensate the people of Gbaramatu Kingdom and other areas of the Niger-Delta destroyed during invasion by the Military in pursuit of militants. […]