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Daily Archives: July 30, 2016

Ten Rules in Life

10 Important Rules of Life to Consider

1. Look after your teeth. Don’t just brush regularly (which is very important, by the way), but get dental work taken care of as soon as it’s needed. Leave it too long and you won’t be in a position to [...]

July 30, 2016 General
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First Date Gone Horribly Wrong

Nemeha Millen had a first date she’ll never forget: good conversation, a long walk in the park, and getting carjacked. On her 21st birthday, the Florida woman went out with 19-year-old Donald Bernard McGee Jr., whom she told police she [...]

July 30, 2016 Uncategorized

NIGER DELTA: Fresh intrigues as suspect reveals plot against Tompolo

Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South, Egufe Yafugborhi & Perez Brisibe Two weeks ago, a privileged security source confirmed to Saturday Vanguard in Abuja that intelligence information available to the   northern collection, comprising a select serving and retired military officers, that [...]

July 30, 2016 What the papers say

Budget Padding: The road to constitutional dictatorship

One cliché that has lately drawn interest among Nigerian newsmakers and observers is the controversial phenomenon of “Budget Padding.” Given the way Nigerians are wont to glamourise crimes, or take for granted issues thrown at them by the political class, [...]

July 30, 2016 What the papers say

PDP CRISIS: Senator Modu Sherrif’s faction courts Jonathan

A faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, led by Senator Modu Sherrif has said that it had contacted former President Goodluck Jonathan with a view to intervening in the protracted leadership crisis in the party, noting that the former leader was [...]

July 30, 2016 What the papers say

We would need to unite in order to live peacefully

By Bisi Lawrence In this climate of change, or the clamour for it, two words often come up to describe aspects of the desired new order. They are restructuring and diversification. They are no doubt different in their meaning, although [...]

July 30, 2016 What the papers say

Why we used air power to bombard Arepo creeks—Nigerian Navy

The Nigerian Navy yesterday explained that its resolve to use air power to dismantle vandals camps and shanties in the Arepo creeks in Ogun state was born out of difficulty to access the terrain on water and land. By Evelyn [...]

July 30, 2016 What the papers say

How Abacha saved me from the pogrom – Brigadier-General Samuel Ogbemudia

Brigadier-General Samuel Ogbemudia was brigade major at the 1st Infantry Division, Kaduna at the time of the counter coup of July 29, 1966. In an interview with Vanguard he gives his eyewitness narration of the events that led to the [...]

July 30, 2016 What the papers say

I’ve done for Esanland what Anenih failed to do — Adams Oshiomhole

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State and the campaign train of the governorship candidate of the APC, Mr Godwin Obaseki yesterday invaded the home town of Chief Tony Anenih in Uromi, with the governor challenging Chief Anenih to disclose what [...]

July 30, 2016 What the papers say

Esan Royal father at war with Anenih

SIMON EBEGBULEM, BENIN CITY The Edo State House of Assembly last Monday bowed to pressures from the state All Progressives Congress (APC) to return the Speakership of the House to Edo Central senatorial district of the state to balance the [...]

July 30, 2016 What the papers say

2016 Budget: Lawmakers Elect To Worship With Buhari Every Friday

  Even with the spreading news of sharp practices during the 2016 budget considerations, Leader of the Nigerian Senate, Mohammed Ali-Ndume  has denied the allegations that the budget was ever “padded”.   Sen. Ndume He, instead, said that the National [...]

July 30, 2016 What the papers say

Why Nollywood actors are dying on the job— Toni Fredricks

By AYO ONIKOYI, Entertainment Editor Nollywood actor, Toni Fredricks has only been in the industry for five years but he is already looking like the genuine article that could bring home the goods. Having sacrificed a lucrative job to pursue his [...]

July 30, 2016 What the papers say