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Boko Haram
Friday, July 8th, 2011
The menace of Boko Haram insurgency currently ravaging parts of the North and Abuja is far from being over following indications that the sect has concluded arrangements to orchestrate massive bomb blasts on specific targets across states of the North at the end of July. Sources close to the administration confirmed to the Saturday Tribune […]
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Headlines, Ministries, Raw Politics
Friday, July 8th, 2011
A security detail attached to the Minister of Transport, Alhaji Yusuf Suleiman, gave the Director General of the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Security Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Patrick Akpobolukeme, the shock of his life on Thursday when he practically bundled the man out of the ministry’s headquarters in Abuja. Sources confirmed that the action of the […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, July 8th, 2011
Nigerian United States based environmental scientist, Dr. Asopuru Okemgbo, has said that life in United States of America is not bed of roses, as immigrants and foreigners have to prove themselves beyond their equals. Okemgbo, who has been in the US for over 20 years, said the basic needs – water, food, access roads, transportation […]
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Bauchi, Boko Haram, State News
Friday, July 8th, 2011
Bauchi State yesterday had its dose of destruction, as bomb explosions rocked a police station in Ankaleri area of the state. One policeman was killed. This is coming two days after similar explosions jolted Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. It was gathered that the explosion occurred at about 4.30pm when gunmen stormed the community in […]
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Latest Politics, Ministries, Top Stories
Friday, July 8th, 2011

DURING the year that Odein Ajumogobia, SAN, was Foreign Minister, many Nigerians and foreigners sang his praises and told me that they regarded him as the best Foreign Minister this country has ever had. And I would bask in the reflected glory whenever I heard the compliments that frequently were lavished on him because he […]
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Africa & World Politics
Friday, July 8th, 2011
The whole of South Sudan has been in a festive mood since its January referendum in which the people voted massively for independence from the North. But the drums blare out their music more than ever before as the region declares their independence from the North today. The birth of Africa’s newest nation comes after […]
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Headlines
Friday, July 8th, 2011
The Yaba Chief Magistrate Court, in Lagos State, was yesterday, filled beyond capacity, as a crowd of curious audience swarmed in to witness the first arraignment of a 30-year- old man Akolade Arowolo, who was accused of killing his banker wife, Titilayo Arowolo. Father of the accused Mr. Arowolo, who wailed furiously as his son […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics, Nigerian Police
Friday, July 8th, 2011

There is a dangerous signal for the lead security agency in the country (Nigeria Police Force) which only a few weeks ago suffered a devastating Bomb attack from Boko Haram as a shocking revelation emerged that the Nigeria Police, charged with enforcement of law and order is ‘broke’. Saturday Vanguard gathered that as at May […]
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Headlines
Friday, July 8th, 2011
LAGOS— CRIES of agony, desperation and helplessness, yesterday, echoed from the debris of the four-storey building that collapsed at 4, Mogaji Lane in Ebute Ero area of Idumota, Lagos Island as trapped victims tried to reach out to their relations on the other side of the collapsed building. Their chances of survival, however, remained bleak […]