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
Acting president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has reportedly demanded an update on the Federal Government’s post-amnesty programme. The request, expected to be officially transmitted to the General Godwin Abbe-led post-amnesty coordination committee, is said to be coming on the heels of … read more
BARRING last minute change of plan, the Presidential six-man investigative panel to ascertain the fitness or otherwise of ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua is expected to depart Nigeria for Saudi Arabia this morning. According to a Presidency source, the team which … read more
Acting President Goodluck Jonathan is set to confound political pundits and jobbers with a resolve not to contest next year’s presidential elections, associates of the Acting President have told Saturday Vanguard. Jonathan, the first Acting President in the nation’s Fourth … read more
Nigeria’s Acting President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday in Abuja condemned all acts of gaining power or remaining in power via unconstitutional means in Niger Republic. Jonathan, who is the current ECOWAS Chairman, was reacting to the reported violence around the … read more
The Federal Government has expressed commitment to ensure that abandoned vessels at the Marina front are cleared because of tendency of the vessels to be used as launching pad of attacks against Nigeria. More worrisome is the fact that there … read more
The Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC), an umbrella body of militants in the Niger Delta has raised an alarm that some elements in Northern Nigeria were inducing youths in the Niger Delta to rubbish Acting President Goodluck Jonathan as lacking in … read more