Nigeria’s acting leader on Sunday assured visiting former US president George W. Bush that Africa’s leading oil producer is turning its back on flawed elections come next year. Goodluck Jonathan told Bush during talks in the Nigerian capital Abuja that … read more
The security situation in Nigeria’s troubled oil producing delta region remains fragile despite assurances by the acting president, Goodluck Jonathan, to revive an amnesty program in the region. Community leaders in the Niger Delta have appealed for restraint to allow … read more
The Acting President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, will meet, this week, with the Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Mr Michel Sidibé, on how to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. In a statement issued … read more
The six Nigerian ministers selected last Wednesday by the cabinet to visit Umaru Yar’Adua in a Saudi hospital were last night unable to leave Abuja following the denial of landing rights to them by the Saudi aviation authorities who reportedly … read more
Britain’s former prime minister Tony Blair on Saturday lauded Nigeria for the it handled a potentially tricky situation brought by the protracted absence of the president. On the first leg of a tour of west Africa, Blair held talks with … read more
Nigerian elections could be held as early as November if reforms being reviewed by parliament are approved, limiting Acting President Goodluck Jonathan’s time in charge and intensifying the struggle over who will succeed him. Jonathan’s assumption of executive powers last … read more
There is anxiety and fear of resurgence of violence in the Niger Delta as the Amnesty Committee is said to have been reducing the number of repentant militants submitted by the ex-militant leaders. Sunday Vanguard learnt that some of the … read more
Worried about reports of the plot by some aggrieved forces to kill Acting President Goodluck Jonathan, militants in the Niger Delta are said to have closed ranks. The militants are said to have been alarmed by the alleged plot to … read more
Nearly 200 members of the House of Representatives from the 19 Northern States would foil any plan to impeach ailing President Umaru Yar’adua or declare him medically unfit to hold his office by invoking Section 144 of the constitution, Daily … read more
Controversy has continued to trail the circumstances in which refugees from the sectarian crisis in plateau state had found themselves. Rumours abound that children from the crisis area are being smuggled into neighbouring states and sold for various sums of … read more