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Editorial: The fall of Ringim (with funny cartoon)

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Sunday, January 29th, 2012

Sunday, January 29, 2012 Editorial Index Following the serious worries expressed by Nigerians over the perceived inability of Hafiz Ringim as Inspector General of Police (IGP) to stem the tide of insecurity in the country, President Goodluck Jonathan has finally relieved the former IGP of his duties. He was, last Wednesday, sent on terminal leave […]

9 suspected pirates, others arrested

Posted by admin Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News Sunday, January 29th, 2012

The joint police and military patrol has apprehended nine suspects in an effort to curb the activities of sea pirates and other criminals in Akwa Ibom waterways and creeks. Parading the suspects on Friday in Uyo, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, said that they were arrested in collaboration with sister security services along […]

Life in the creeks was hell Wilson, ex-militant leader

Posted by admin Niger Delta Sunday, January 29th, 2012

Some call him Pastor. Others call him General. And in some cases, some of his fans put the two titles together and his full name then becomes General Pastor Reuben Wilson. He held sway in the creeks of the Niger Delta for about three years before he was dragged out by the Federal Government in […]

Enahoro’s widow passes on

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, January 29th, 2012

January 29, 2012 at 12:08 pm by Vanguard Widow of the late frontline nationalist, Mrs Helen Enahoro, Saturday, passed on at the age of 79. Vanguard learnt that the widow passed on in Lagos after a brief illness. It was learnt that Mrs Enahoro had a protracted battle with cancer. The son, Eugene, confirmed the […]

Ojukwu’s burial : Fashola pledges cooperation

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Sunday, January 29th, 2012

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), Friday hosted the National Funeral Committee of the Late Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, pledging the support of the state government to the committee to ensure a befitting burial for the former military governor of the defunct Eastern Region. Late Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu, who died in a […]

Bomb found in Port Harcourt

Posted by admin Headlines, Rivers, State News Sunday, January 29th, 2012

The nation was saved another tragedy on Saturday in Port Harcourt as an explosive was uncovered in the Rivers State capital. It took the timely arrival of a bomb disposal squad to foil the bid to waste innocent lives. The killer object was said to have been found in the densely populated Diobu area of […]

Kano grounded as non-indigenes flee

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Headlines, Kano, State News Sunday, January 29th, 2012

In the history of Kano State and in its relationship with the non-native communities that seek their means of livelihood in the state, there has never been such a panic rush to get out of the state by the same people that once called the state their home. With the multiple bombing in the state […]

Igbo leaders ask all Igbos in the north to return home

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Headlines, South-East Sunday, January 29th, 2012

Call it fear of Boko Haram or the unknown. But the Igbo Elders Forum met yesterday at the residence of the late Igbo leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, and asked its kinsmen resident in the northern part of Nigeria to return home. The call was occasioned by the activities of the Islamist fundamentalist sect, Boko […]

Breaking News: Supreme Court sacks five State Govs of Bayelsa, C/River, Adamawa, Kogi & Sokoto – Declares their seats vacant

Posted by admin Adamawa, Bayelsa, Breaking News, Cross River, Governors, Judiciary, Kogi, National Politics, Sokoto, State News, Top Stories Friday, January 27th, 2012

Justices of the Supreme Court in Nigera today ruled that five state governors have no legal mandate to remain in office beyond May 2011. A panel of the Nigerian apex court today ruled that the tenures of Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa, Murtala Nyako of Adamawa, Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko of Sokoto, Ibrahim Idris of Kogi and […]

Boko Haram changes tactics – to target schools, kidnapping of wives and children

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Latest Politics Friday, January 27th, 2012

The Islamic sect, Boko Haram, has threatened to adopt a change of tactics in a message posted on YouTube yesterday. The sect also restated that it was behind last week’s attacks in Kano saying bombings and shootings were to avenge the torture of its members. “We were responsible,” a voice identified as that of suspected […]