Nigeria may lose a princely N3.2 trillion, recently discovered as part of billions of dollars stashed away in foreign bank accounts by late military dictator, Gen. Sani Abacha. This fear is instructed by the intricate, complex hurdles set before the Federal Government team tracing the hidden funds by the countries involved. A Special Investigation Panel…
The Federal Ministry of Education has released the cut-off marks on State-by-State basis of the just concluded 2013 National Common Entrance Examination for admission processes into Federal Unity Colleges nation-wide.Parents are advised to check the results of their wards which have been posted on notice board of all Unity Colleges throughout the Federation.
Before now, Abual/Odua Local Government Area of Rivers State was hardly in the news. The area has of recent been in the limelight for the wrong reason; the raiding of a corpers’ lodge and kidnap of three corps members. When the kidnapped corps members were posted to the state, it never for once crossed their…
Anambra State governor, Mr Peter Obi, yesterday bagged the best performing governor on the eradication of polio in the southeast from Bill Gates and Melinda Foundation at a massively attended ceremony at the Women’s Development Centre in Awka. Speaking while presenting the award to Gov Obi which went with a cash prize of N120 million,…
No fewer than 20 people were Friday feared dead in an outbreak of conflict between Tiv farmers and nomadic Fulani herdsmen at Nzorov ward, in Guma Local Government Area of Benue state. Sources told Saturday Vanguard hat the entire Nzorov ward in Iyordye Akaahena village was sacked by the Fulani herdsmen who also burnt down…
I sat down, after church last Sunday, to think about 2015 and beyond for Nigeria and the South East. Unfolding events have made it clear that all the parties still play regional politics, be it the PDP, CPC, ACN, Labour, and APGA. I could not help but to admit to myself the shame of what…
Members of the Senate on Thursday differed on the plan of Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State to arm a local militia in order to assist the police in fighting crime in the state. A motion brought by Senator Basheer Mohammed and 49 others called attention to the governor’s plan, warning that the move was…
FOLLOWING renewed ethnic clashes between neighbouring Ijaws and Itsekiris in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State, the Federal Government has deployed more soldiers to the warring communities being an aftermath of Tuesday’s killing of innocent persons by some militant groups, alleged to be Ijaws. Nigerian Tribune gathered that the latest development was orchestrated…
The Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security Challenges in the North has said the Federal Government will soon decide on the compensation for Boko Haram victims. In a statement yesterday in Abuja by its Secretary, Esther Gonda, the committee said contrary to some reports, it never ruled out compensation for victims of…
The Federal Government has assured of the timely completion of the $874 million Abuja-Idu-Kaduna standard gauge railway track.