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Nat’l Confab to start February 10

BY CLIFFORD NDUJIHE, Deputy Political Editor BARRING unforeseen adjustments, the proposed national conference may begin on Monday, February 10, 2014, Vanguard has gathered. This is after a...

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Obasanjo’s is acting like ‘Mr-know-it-all’, he cannot stop Jonathan in 2015 –...

Former Bayelsa State Governor, Diepreye Aliamieyeseigha, at the weekend described former President Olusegun Obasanjo, as an autocratic individual looking for national sympathy. Reacting to Obasanjo’s...

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Nigerian on way to Dubai caught with cannabis

Simon Ateba/Lagos A 34-year old Nigerian trader has been arrested at the Lagos airport over attempt to smuggle 16.335kg of cannabis concealed in foodstuff to Dubai. Obi Chinweike was arrested at the...

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OBJ Surrenders: i have done my duty to you and will reply you no more –...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has responded to the 17 page letter written to him by President Goodluck Jonathan. Obasanjo who replied through his aide, Tunde Oladunjoye during a press conference...

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REVEALED: Why Sesan Ogunro was murdered — Police

NEWS EXPRESS – The Lagos State Police Command has given the official version of events leading to Sunday night’s murder of advertising expert Sesan Ogunro, Group Managing Director of Eminent...

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Amaechi urges Military to remain non-partisan

Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi has appealed to the country’s military not to be involved in partisan politics. He enjoined them to remain neutral and not take sides in the current struggle by...

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$48.9bn: Northern youths accuse Sanusi of working against Jonathan

By CALEB AYANSINA ABUJA — The Northern Youth Movement For Positive Change, NYMPC, yesterday, accused governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Lamido Sanusi, of working at cross purpose with...

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Tukur writes Tambuwal over legislators’ defection

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman Alhaji Bamanga Tukur has urged House of Representatives Speaker Aminu Tambuwal to “direct” lawmakers who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) to...

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Bloody Christmas Eve in Cross River

From JUDEX OKORO, Calabar The joyous moment of the Christmas season turned bloody yesterday, as a truck with registration No. FKJ505XC lost control, killing four persons and leaving scores injured...

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Bomb scare in Ebonyi

From Jeff Amechi Agbodo, Abakaliki Pandemonium, fear and panic gripped residents of Abakaliki in Ebonyi State capital yesterday following alleged discovery of a device by the Police bomb disposal unit...

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I won’t resign – Defiant Stella Oduah boasts in Lagos

PM NEWS LAGOS – Nigeria’s embattled aviation minister, Stella Oduah, will not resign and those who claim the House of Representatives had called for her resignation or sack should go back to school,...

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Amaechi: I’ve never said I want to be president

Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi said yesterday in Port Harcourt that he had never told anybody he wanted to be president in 2015. He noted that he was only fighting to change the situation in the...

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Jonathan drags Obasanjo to rights commission over criminal allegations

President Jonathan Goodluck yesterday submitted himself to the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, for probe over criminal allegations against him by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Former...

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Nigerians urged to shape thier destiny in 2014

Governors of the All Progressive Congress (APC) have charged Nigerians to free themselves from the hands of leaders who had lost touch with the dreams and aspirations of citizens. The governors, in a...

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UPDATE: Bomb Blast Kills 14 during christmas day

Explosion caused by bomb set in a car near a church in Baghdad, Iraq, has killed at least 14 people as Iraqi Christians celebrated Christmas, officials say. The device went off in the Doura district of...

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Letter to Jonathan: Al-Mustapha challenges Obasanjo to public debate

Mr. Al-Mustapha said he has forgiven everyone involved in his incarceration. The former Chief Security Officer to late Head of State, Sani Abacha, Hamza Al-Mustapha, has reacted to postulations by...

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Gambian Court Hears Suit Over Food Poisoning On Nigerian President Jonathan

A Gambian Magistrates’ Court at Kanifing Municipal Council will today hear a food poisoning trial involving President Goodluck Jonathan, his delegation and Gambia’s five-star hotel Coco Ocean,...

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NEWS IN PICTURES: President Jonathan and family at Christmas

PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN (R) SHAKING HANDS WITH THE PRIMATE, HURCH OF NIGERIA ANGLICAN COMMUNION, MOST REVD NICHOLA OKOH DURING CHRISTMAS DAY SPECIAL CHURCH SERVICE AT THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE...

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Don’t heat up the polity, Jonathan tells politicians, statesmen

President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday admonished politicians and statesmen that were heating up the polity saying that the country belongs to all Nigerians. The President was speaking at the...

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Casual Sex: The Most Promiscuous Cities In The World, where sex is even...

AFRO PROFILE – Alcohol might be cheaper than water in Tijuana, but sex is even cheaper than that in Pattaya. The sexual revolution which took place in the 1960′s and 70′s opened the door to what is...

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