“Governor Rochas Okorocha, was yesterday stunned as royal fathers defiantly rejected the Toyota Sienna vehicles presented to them by the state government. Most of the traditional rulers, who spoke angrily to Vanguard on the issue, said nobody consulted them before they went into the market to make the purchases. One of the aggrieved royal…
Barely two weeks after a four-storey building collapsed in Odoakpu area of Onitsha, Anambra State and killed four persons, a five-storey building went down and injured two persons.The latest incident, which occurred at Zik’s Avenue/Creek road, opposite APZ Junction in Fegge area of Onitsha, took place at about 6.00 p.m. on Friday.The building collapsed at …
By BISI OLAWUNMIThere is a tripartite battle of public opinion at play in the polity as the Presidency, governors –particularly those from the North – and the military are all engaged in spirited public communication to excuse their respective ‘failures’ in the on- goingwaragainst BokoHaram,alias BH. The BH commanders must be having a big laugh…
Igbo political prostitutes suffered more shame in Muslim brotherhood APC convention at Abuja. How can a slave expect his master to make him the head of his house? Convention In Abuja. Chris Ngige was almost beaten up… It is no more news that Igbo delegates were beaten up and one stripped naked by those who…
It is interesting that Bilie Human Rights Initiative (herein after BHRI) backed by practising barrister(s) will choose when to act in accordance with the law and when not to.We continue to remind you that an agreement signed under the law was blatantly breached by BHRI and its lawyers and they turned around to cry foul.It…
The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has berated the South-East governors for coming to the national conference without a definite Igbo position. The Secretary General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo and delegate to the national conference, Dr Joe Nworgu who criticized the governors before journalists in Enugu at the weekend lamented that the governors did not…
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State and foremost leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the weekend made his towering influence to bear on the choice of candidates in Friday’s convention of the party. His grip of the soul of the party came to fore at the weekend in Abuja…
In this concluding part of the interview with a former militant leader, Dokubo-Asari, he speaks on how he became radicalised and his many encounters with the authorities. During the anti-SAP riot, after the demonstration in Jos, students in the University of Calabar also demonstrated. We were demonstrating outside the main campus when the police started…
The new Emir of Kano, His Royal Highness, Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi II, yesterday began a three-day solitary ritual in fulfillment of tradition. A competent palace source confided in Sunday Vanguard that the process would see the emir locked up in the room known as Dakin Duhu (dark room) without access to anyone. The source explained…
Following the death of the Emir of Kano and the selection of the former Central Bank of Nigeria,