The security situation in Rivers State dipped for the worse yesterday as suspected assassins stormed the residence of the Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly, Hon Charles Befii Nwile. However, Nwile was lucky to have gone out before the … read more
The election petition tribunal sitting in Enugu on Friday removed Governor Sullivan Chime of the Peoples Democratic Party. It also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct a fresh election within three months starting from the day of the … read more
Lieutenant-Colonel Sagir Musa is the spokesman for the Joint Task Force that has been put in place to restore order in Rivers State. In this interview with Saturday Vanguard, he speaks on the efforts of the body to address the … read more
ONE-TIME President of Ghana, Mr. Jerry Rawlings, declared yesterday that Nigeria�s failings as a nation were self-inflicted and warned that it was time to deal with those problems. He, therefore, asked the country to �weld its democratic acts together� and … read more
AP) – Militants in Nigeria’s restive oil region on Saturday invited film star and peace activist George Clooney to visit Nigeria’s restive oil region and asked for U.N. intervention in the conflict. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon designated Clooney as a … read more
THE Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Luka Yusuf, has vowed that none of the army officers found to be allegedly part of the syndicate that stole arms and ammunition from the Army Central Ordinance Depot in Kaduna, will go unpunished. … read more
The Rivers State Government said on Wednesday said it would not accept the ceasefire declared by the leader of the Niger Delta Vigilante Movement, Mr. Ateke Tom, until he and members of his group surrendered their weapons. The Director of … read more
Ahead of plans by the Federal Government to launch the International Year of Sanitation, the United Nations Children�s Fund has disclosed that more than 60 per cent of Nigerians do not have access to improved sanitation facilities. UNICEF�s Country Representative … read more
FORMER President, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), Chief J.K. Randle, was on Thursday remanded in Ikoyi Prisons by an Igboshere/Tapa Magistrates Court. Chief Randle was arraigned at the court over allegation of N300 million fraud against one Kayode … read more
AT least 10 people have been killed in fighting in a land dispute between rival ethnic communities on Cameroun’s western border with Nigeria, reports said on Thursday. They said tribesmen from the Oliti community in Cameroun and their rivals from … read more