LIBYA has a more dangerous transition phase that is easily overlooked. Muammar Gaddafi’s death 18 months ago has left a country in more turmoil than most opponents of Gaddafi expected.

Libya – Law By The Gun

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/120-insurgents-arrested-at-burial-of-boko-haram-commander/ Yesterday, the military announced the arrest of 120 militants at a funeral ceremony for one of the commanders of the Boko Haram killed during a confrontation with the military. Many other militants were reported to be fleeing towards the eastern border to Chad and Niger republics.

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http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/construction-of-nine-private-refineries-in-jeopardy-over-financing/ The web site also noted that an LTE license was granted to Amexum Corporation to construct 100,000bpd capacity Complex conversion (cracking) refinery in Ikang, Cross Rivers State. The plant is to be constructed in four phases with each of 25,000 bpd capacity modules. However, lack of financing for project has stalled the kickoff of the project.…

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/insecurity-lagos-remains-vulnerable-as-cctv-project-goes-moribund/ Some of the challenges confronting the project, which is being solely financed by FG, it was gathered, apart from the finance, were sites for permanent location, vandalisation as well as non availability of accurate data-bank of citizenry and biometrics. It was learnt that all the cameras installed on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway had been removed because of the ongoing road expansion along…

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/2015-jonathan-must-contest-clark-tells-northern-leaders/ ELDER Statesman and former Minister of Information, Chief Edwin Clark said yesterday that the Southern part of the country would still produce President in 2015 election, adding that it was not yet the turn of the north.

2015: Jonathan must contest, Clark tells Northern…

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CAN, ACN seek tighter security in Bauchi

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The federal and Bauchi State governments have been asked to provide adequate security to discourage Boko Haram insurgents escaping from either Adamawa, Borno or Yobe states from using Bauchi State as their sanctuary.

IN theory, Nigerian institutions, like the Church and government agencies, are motivated by the loftiest ideals. Usually, they have mottoes: pithy and poetic expressions defining their guiding principles and objectives.

The moral degeneration of Nigerian institutions

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ondo State has praised a police report alleging forgery of security reports on the 2007 gubernatorial election as the reason for the judicial defeat of its candidate and former governor, Dr. Olusegun Agagu at the …

Ondo 2007 guber: Security reports were forged – DG DSS

No fewer than four persons were feared dead, yesterday, while 10 others sustained various degrees of injury when two rival youth groups suspected to have come from Ogbaru Area Council of Anambra State engaged themselves in a bloody clash.

4 die,10 injured as rival youths clash in Anambra

FOUR suspected human traffickers in Edo State arrested by officials of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and Other Related Matters, NAPTIP, have been convicted and sent to jail in the past one week.

NAPTIP prosecutes 4 over human trafficking