AH, Chinua, are you grapevine wired? It sings: our nation is not dead, not clinically Yet. Now this may come as a surprise to you, It was to me.

Elegy for a nation

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/presidential-intervention-ikeja-police-college-wears-new-look/ But the good news today, is that the college is currently wearing a new look, as a result of its renovation which was at the directive of President Goodluck Jonathan. Should it have been lie this ?

Presidential Intervention: Ikeja Police College wears new…

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/35-yr-old-cobbler-nabbed-over-rape/ Also arrested is a cobbler, identified as Adamu Musa, over alleged rape of a 12-year-old.

35-yr-old, cobbler nabbed over rape

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Police in Bayelsa State have announced the prosecution of a 35-year-old man, Nathaniel Elaweremi, for allegedly raping a teenager.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/use-infotech-to-tackle-insecurity-ncs-urges-fg/ Unless information technology, education, employment creation were given urgent attention in governance, the fight against terrorism and other acts of insecurity may be long-drawn, the President of Nigerian Computer Society, NCS, Sir. Demola Aladekomo has warned. How can we fight insurgency through info tech?

Use…

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/8-die-8-injured-in-anambra-auto-crash/ According to an eyewitness, the bus, an Ekwulobia-bound fully-loaded mass transit vehicle, coming from Onitsha-Nkpor, collided with the tipper, coming from Nnobi end, close to Ideani River. When roads without thinking you end up killing ?

8 die, 8 injured in Anambra auto crash

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No fewer than…

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/army-nabs-9-fulani-mercenaries-over-benue-bloodbath/ According to him, the army officers told the police that they received reports that some Fulani mercenaries had attacked some villagers in Guma council, killing and burning the houses of their victims. Is it not high time nomadic style is stop ?

Army nabs 9 Fulani ‘mercenaries’ over Benue…

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/elegy-for-a-nation/ A tribute to the late Prof. Chinua Achebe By WOLE SOYINKA AH, Chinua, are you grapevine wired? It sings: our nation is not dead, not clinically Yet. Now this may come as a surprise to you, It was to me. I thought the form I spied Beneath the frosted glass of a fifty-carat catafalque Was the face of our own dear land – ‘own’, ‘dear’, Voluntary patriotese, you’ll note – we try to please. An…

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/ngf-crisis-two-chairmen-may-emerge/ It was gathered authoritatively that some independent-minded governors, who are also sympathetic to Amaechi have vowed to conduct their election at the Secretariat of the NGF, as stipulated by its constitution if the pro-Jonathan governors insist on having their voting at the Villa. Should they ?

NGF crisis: Two chairmen may…

NATIONAL President of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritse-jafor has appealed to Nigerians to support the current emergency rule in three North Eastern states, arguing that no progressive nation would fold its hands and allow few …

Oritsejafor rallies support for emergency rule

NIGERIA is a country of distinct contradictions. Public officers make a round of the world attending seminars and conferences on health, for example. They then conclude health is important to the country’s well-being.

Ignored Importance of Health Services

NATIONAL Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, yesterday, asked governors elected on the party's platform, who have plans to return in 2015 to start campaigns now, if they must win the election.

Tukur tells returning PDP govs to commence 2015 campaigns