EFCC detains 17 suspects over N1.7bn Oyo pension fund
No fewer than 17 suspects have been detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in connection with the stealing of N1.7 billion meant for the payment of primary...
VOP: Amaechi, Northern govs unaware of party
Barely 24 hours after seven Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governors were linked with moves to float a new party to be known as Voice of the People, VOP, many of...
Nigeria: 11 herdsmen killed in Oyo
IBADAN — NO feawer than eleven herdsmen have been killed in the last six weeks in some parts of Oke Ogun area of Oyo State. The towns where the killings...
Court remands 4 for allegedly dumping 2 children in stream
BAUCHI — The Bauchi State Chief Magistrate’s court has remanded four suspects who allegedly dumped two children in Dumi stream, in Bauchi Local Government Area. It was recently reported that...
Nigeria: Oil spill left victims homeless
LAGOS—Residents of Aminatu Ilo Street, Ejigbo, Lagos, where oil spillage occurred last weekend, have abandoned their apartments for fear of being molested by security agents. When Vanguard visited the street,...
Group flays Northern opposition against Jonathan’s 2015 Presidency
UGHELLI—A pressure group, Grassroots Coalition for Goodluck Jonathan, GCGJ, Tuesday, lashed out at the Arewa Consultative Forum and the Northern Elders Forum over their stance on the President’s second term...
Opposition abusing freedom of expression, says Jonathan
The Federal Government has accused opposition political parties in the country of abusing the freedom of thought and conscience guaranteed in the constitution to threaten the unity of the country....
NANS plans protest to end ASUU strike
LAGOS—National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, plans to hold a nation-wide protest as a last resort to force the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to...
18 years after: Eminent Nigerians want Saro-Wiwa immortalised
If the late environmental rights activist and leader of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP, Ken Saro-Wiwa was alive, he would be 72 years old on October...
Crisis in Taraba State over Suntai returns
ABUJA—A letter sent in by the recuperating Governor of Taraba State, Danbaba Suntai, to the State House of Assembly intimating them of his intention to resume work, has split the...