As the 2011 edition of Microsoft Imagine Cup student’s software competition in New York city, the United States of America is drawing to a close, there appears to be growing anxiety and expectations among 21 teams advancing to final round of the completion.

Access Bank and Intercontinental Bank, Monday, signed a merger agreement, paving the way for Intercontinental Bank to recapitalise ahead of the September 30th Central Bank deadline.

10 bodies were recovered at Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos State while 3 houses were said to have collapsed in Ajegunle after yesterday’s heavy rainfall and flooding.

More updates later

Port Harcourt – The two weeks of hustle and bustle which characterised Port Harcourt due to the influx of contingents and visitors to the 17th National Sports Festival have disappeared from the oil city. The major centres that hosted the games have been deserted since the games ended on Saturday. Choba and East-West road which […]

The Federal Government has approved an increment in the monthly allowance of Corps members from N9,775.00 to N19,800.

The increment was conveyed in a letter from the Presidency to Office of the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps,NYSC and sent to all state Coordinators of the NYSC.

Scientists have found a “superbug” strain of gonorrhoea in Japan that is resistant to all recommended antibiotics and say it could transform a once easily treatable infection into a global public health threat.

A bomb blast at Fokado Street, off Maiduguri Road in Kaduna, on Sunday left more than 20 people seriously injured.

Saudi Arabia on Sunday beheaded three Nigerians accused of murdering and robbing a fellow citizen, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency

Injured 14-time major champion Tiger Woods, who announced earlier this week that he was pulling out of the British Open, is set to make an announcement on the Golf Channel on Monday.

After yesterday’s heavy rainfall, that left most parts of Lagos flooded, with commercial and vehicular activities paralysed, Lagosians have continued to send photos of the flood in their neighbourhood to Vanguard Online in our citizen reports initiative.