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President Muhammadu Buhari has withheld assent to the 2016 Budget following discrepancies noticed in the clean copy submitted to his office on Thursday by the National Assembly, A well-placed Presidency spoke on Saturday evening: “The President had indicated that he will review details of the 2016 Budget Ministry by Ministry when it is received from the National Assembly to ensure that what is passed is in line with his strategic agenda for the country The National Assembly transmitted the details to the President on Thursday, April 7, 2016 and because he was desirous of giving assent to the Appropriation Bill before leaving for China, he directed that the Ministers should review the provisions/appropriations of their respective ministry to fast-track the process.” The source disclosed that Buhari could not sign the budget before today’s trip to China because during Friday’s emergency cabinet meeting presided over by the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, who is the Head of the Econo...

Both blessings and course are on the internet and its social networks. This mother had to learn that painfully. Her story should be known by everyone and draw the right conclusions. It is about the welfare of our children. Imagine that you’re on Facebook and get a friend request from a stranger. As I said, you don’t know he or she at all. But the profile picture is actually quite nice and it speaks to you somehow. So then just like that you accept the request. What could go wrong ? Because you have something much more important to do everything quickly forgotten,: for the first time your daughter (or son) is starting school. You’re so proud of your offspring, how she has made herself ready for her big day and you post the best photos on Facebook. Underneath you write something like: “What a day! Unbelievable who big my sweetheart has become.” With the name of the school then you even link the picture and upload it on Facebook. A couple c...

It was a disaster for terrified residents of 21 Road in Festac Town Lagos , on Wednesday afternoon as a female Civil Defence operative on the orders of her commander, summarily executed  a boy at the AP filling Station on 21,Road ,FESTAC Town. The boy was alleged to have bought fuel in a jerry can and was going home when he was accosted by a team of Civil Defence officials who arrested him.  Witnesses said he never resisted arrest, but rather was pleading and explaining to the NSCDC personnel that the fuel was for personal use as he was not a fuel hawker The witness who pleaded annonymity said the boy, about 18-years-old   had laid down on the road pleading with the NSCDC operatives to allow him go home as he was not a fuel hawker, but had just bought the fuel for personal use. The witnesses said the Commander of the team who felt that the boy was resisting arrest,ordered a female official to shoot the”Bastard”,and the woman shot him. On seeing the boy dying on the p...

In its preparation for the National Convention, the Peoples Democratic Party , under the distinguished Chairmanship of Sen.Ali Madu Sheriff have made several committees for the May National Convention. Governor Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo is to chair finance committee for the preparation of the convention. The party is well prepared to revive its lost glory, the committees have been sworn in yesterday at the Party's National Secretariat in Abuja, where they have been urged to work Deligently to ensure the revival of the party's good image.    

  When 26-year-old Abigail Olori met Alhaja Latifat and her husband three years ago, she felt she had met an angel in human form who would turn the odds of her life for good. Considering the fact that she had lost her parents and was saddled with the responsibility of catering for her siblings, she jumped at the offer to travel to Italy to work as an auxiliary nurse for the couple. Unknown to her, however, she was making the biggest mistake of her life. A look into the eyes of the frail looking Abigail revealed misery, pains and betrayal that she has been subjected to in the last three years. Coughing intermittently  and straining herself to be audible, she narrated her ordeal in the hands of her traffickers.  “I met Alhaja Latifat and her husband in 2013 when they came to Nigeria; then I was 23-years-old. I knew them via a relative of mine,  Rofel, when I was residing in Bayelsa with my siblings. Rofel invited me to Lagos; it was during the visit to Lagos that I was...

The bride and groom                   Couples with one of the Aunty's                                                                                                      Mubarak , and some quest at the event                                                                                                We wish the couples a happy married life.

Luka writes: The sense of insecurity in Kaduna metropolis especially among the relatively well-offs, has pervaded into far rural areas of the state. It would seem that kidnapping in exchange for ransom is going on a wide scale, with most of the victims being the rich, and most of the cases going unreported out of fear of the repercussion.  The matter got worse with the curious abduction and murder of a serving army colonel, Samaila Yunusa, 44, an indigene of Kano State last weekend. As the army and police are working hard to unravel the motive behind the murder and possibly make arrest,   Saturday Vanguard made extensive investigations on how Yunusa was killed. Col. Yunusa How Col. Yunusa was killed According to sources within and outside the family of the slain onetime Aide De Camp (ADC) to Vice President of Sierra Leone    in 1997 (when Yunusa served in Liberia as a captain), the murder of the colonel was avoidable if the occupant of the car he was driving in ...

Fast-rising Nollywood actor, Ceejay Perez has lost his life after getting involved in a fatal motor accident yesterday. The tragic incident occurred in Onitsha, Anambra State, claiming the actor’s life and the lives of four other passengers that were in the car. Reports say the car was going at top speed when it ran into a drainage, leaving the vehicle extremely totalled.  

In a desperate move to end the recurrent fuel shortages, particularly of premium motor spirit, PMS (petrol) being experienced in the country, the Federal Government has declared a state of emergency for petroleum products distribution. Confirming the developments, the Commercial Director, PPMC, Mr. Justin Ezeala, admitted to the drop in NNPC/PPMC new import allocation, saying that “it is meant to free NNPC to import only for itself, instead of importing for everybody as we have been doing since this year.” He also admitted that the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and Group Managing Director, NNPC, Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, had “directed that everything related to petroleum distribution must be treated as an emergency.” A source told us that “beginning from tomorrow (today), we have confirmations for cargoes lined up to be received in-country. Petroleum cargoes are to be treated as essential commodities, with all the regulatory agencies – DPR, PPRA, put on the alert....

A new lead has emerged about the possible abductors and killers of late Colonel Smaila Inusa, whose body was discovered on Tuesday, three days after he was kidnapped by unknown assailants.  we were informed by a military intelligence source that the authorities are exploring a new possible lead to the death of Inusa, who was earlier thought to have been kidnapped for ransom. The source noted that the shocking discovery that the senior officer was killed by his abductors has created suspicion that it might have been an insider job, as much as the external hit. According to the military insiders, external kidnap and murder of an Army officer would have been too risky a mission without an insider collaboration. Also, the fact that the killers did not ask for ransom rankled the authorities to start expanding the scope of their search as well as consider a possible inside connection. “The Colonel was finally confirmed murdered on the day he was abducted, apparently the killers are not a...