By Peter Duru MAKURDI — Youths in Benue State have protested the intended ban on the sale and consumption of locally brewed gin popularly called ogogoro in the state, describing the action as unnecessary and unpopular. The youths who initially registered their protested during the public hearing of the Benue State House of Assembly Committee […]

By Patience Ogbodo BAUCHI — THE  Bauchi State Deputy Governor, Muhammad Garba Gadi, who is currently facing impeachment threat for his refusal to decamp with Governor Isa Yuguda to PDP, has said it will be dishonourable for him to resign at this point of his travails. Gadi stated this while addressing a press conference in […]

By Samuel Oyadongha Asaba—A Police Constable attached to the Delta State police command has been arrested alongside one other person for allegedly breaking into a pastor’s private residence at Okpanam in Oshimili North Local Government Area of the state. Vanguard gathered that incident took place at about 11am last Saturday while the pastor was away […]

By Samuel Oyadongha & By Emma Amaize Yenagoa—The rank of militant commanders who have agreed to drop their arms in agreement to President Umaru Yar’Adua’s amnesty has continued to swell in Bayelsa State with Gen Ogunboss, a commander from the Niger Delta Vigilante Force in the upper senate of MEND joining the fray of militants […]

By Festus Ahon UGHELLI—A frontline member of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta State, Chief Peter Eboh, has frowned at the hostilities between the military and armed youths of the Niger Delta and appealed to the military and the youths to sheathe their swords. Eboh, who was fielding questions from newsmen in Ughelli, […]