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Pregnant woman, 3 children burnt to death in Ebonyi

Tragedy struck in the early hours of Monday, in Achara Unuhu village, Abakaliki Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, when a  pregnant nursing mother and her three children were reportedly burnt to death, as a strange fire razed their residence while they were all asleep. Investigations by the Nigerian Tribune revealed that the victims, Mrs […]

The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mrs. Farida Waziri, has blamed the wanton corruption in the country for driving many young people into violent crimes including militancy and  terrorism. Waziri, who stated this on Tuesday at the 8th anniversary of the anti-corruption agency and launch of the Economic and Financial Crimes […]

Bankole detained in underground cell

FORMER Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, who is currently facing trial in two courts for alleged fraud and loan conversion, was in a dejected mood yesterday following his week-long detention in the not-so-cosy EFCC custody. An EFCC operative, who would not like to be mentioned, told Vanguard that Bankole has obviously lost […]

Court grants Akingbola N100m bail

Temporary reprieve yesterday came the way of the former chief executive officer of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Mr. Erastus Akingbola, as a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja granted him bail to the sum of N100million with two sureties in like sum. The court, presided over by Justice Habeeb Abiru also granted Bayo Dada, who was […]

Time to make ACN a truly national party

As most Nigerians accurately predicted, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) made a clean sweep of all the positions contested in the just concluded 2011 general elections in the South West, thereby taking the zone back to where it has always belonged.  The South West is traditionally the bastion of the progressive hue of politics, […]

Anglican bishops kick against proposed Islamic bank

Bishops of the Dioceses in  the Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion have urged the Senate and Federal House of Representatives not to pass any bill that would make the proposed Islamic bank to see the light of the day. The Anglican Bishop of Enugu,  Rt. Rev. Emmanuel Chukwuma who disclosed this to newsmen in Enugu also […]

Boko Haram gives conditions for ceasefire

Four people were on Sunday night shot dead at a beer parlour in Bulunkutu, a Maiduguri, Borno State suburb even as the Islamic sect gave conditions before it could ceasefire. Among the conditions given for truce was the resignation of the newly-elected governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, prosecution of his predecessor, Senator Modu Ali Sheriff and […]

Lagos 2015: ACN searches for Fashola’s successor

In order to avoid the confusion that attended the search for successor to former Lagos state governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Lagos chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has commenced a search for who succeeds the incumbent governor, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN). Political drama that attended the search for Tinubu’s successor […]

Police rescue 7 kids from traffickers in Onitsha

The Police in the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State has rescued seven children from the hands of suspected child traffickers and arrested two suspects. Though the Police Spokesman in the state, Mr. Emeka Chukwuemeka said the matter has not been reported to the Command, an eyewitness who pleaded anonymity said the incident happened at […]

Why Nigeria won’t honour Abiola – Odumakin

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, former Ogun State governor, Aremo Olusegun Osoba and Secretary of the National Union of Petroleum and Gas Union (NUPENG), Frank Kokori  among other notable pro-democracy activists were conspicuously absent  yesterday during the June 12 Democracy Walk and Rally in Abeokuta. Soyinka, Osoba and Kokori were billed to address hundreds of […]