The Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment programme (SURE-P) paid N18 million to 15, 000 beneficiaries under the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme in 2013, Hajia Halima Alfa, has said.

Former Technical Director, Nigeria Football Association (NFA), Chief Kasimawo Laloko, on Sunday advised the association to judiciously use the Federal Government’s grant for the execution of Super Eagles World Cup campaign in Brazil.

DEPUTY Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Niger Delta Affairs, Mr Albert Akintoye, Friday, alleged that the former minister of Niger Delta Ministry, Elder Godsday Orubebe embezzled the N110 million allocated for the constituency project for the Okitipupa\Irele federal constituency in Ondo state.

The people of Okpala autonomous community in Ngor Okpala local government area of Imo State, are now counting their losses, occasioned by a devastating rainstorm that swept through the area last weekend.
Some of the traumatized villagers, who spoke to Vanguard yesterday on the issue, conservatively put the total loss at over N500 million.

It was another tragic day Sunday when no fewer than ten people were killed instantly while two others were injured when a commercial Sharon bus travelling from Bauchi to Abuja collided with a trailer tanker.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) is set to unveil its manifesto, designed as a “Roadmap to a New Nigeria”, at the Party’s National Summit to be held in Abuja on Thursday, March 6th.

Saudi women activists have petitioned the country’s consultative council to back a demand to curb the “absolute authority” of male guardians over women in the ultra-conservative Sunni Muslim kingdom, a signatory said.

The Minister of Information and Supervising Minister of Defence, Mr Labaran Maku, has called for more cooperation from the public in the fight against terrorism.

A US Navy F/A-18C Hornet jet aircraft crashed during training Saturday in the western state of Nevada, the navy said in a statement.

34 days after Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria, MOMAN, warned of impending fuel scarcity due to the depletion of their stock, long queues of vehicles have re surfaced in filling stations across the country.