5 injured as Onitsha drug market exco meeting turns bloody
ONITSHA - No fewer than five people sustained various degrees of injuries Thursday at the Onitsha Bridge Head medicine dealers market when violence erupted erupted during the meeting of line Chairmen and Secretaries of the Onitsha Patent and Proprietary Medicine Dealers Union, OPPMDU, as a result of the arrival of some suspected thugs and disruption of the meeting.
Subsidy Payment: N45bn to oil marketers underway – Okonjo-Iweala
he Coordinating Minister of Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Okonjo-Iweala says payment of N45 billion to oil marketers is underway, after the verification of claims currently ongoing.
Pana TV to Stream Half Of A Yellow Sun in US, UK
The African online television service, PanaTV has signed an exclusive deal with Soda Pictures, acquiring the rights to subscription VOD for one of the most acclaimed films from Africa this year, Half of a Yellow Sun.
“I have sickle cell, I’m not a corpse”
With anticipation at its peak; Tunde Kelani releases the official trailer for the movie Dazzling Mirage on World Sickle Cell Day; June 19,
2014 starring Kemi Lala Akindoju as the lead character ‘Funmiwo’.
The beginning of the end of Aribisala’s fiction
DR. Femi Aribisala’s recent article “The beginning of the end of the Bola Tinubu Dynasty” should not have appeared in The Vanguard or in any newspaper for that matter. What this piece represented was a contribution to fiction writing, not responsible journalism.
Man docked over kidnap of neighbour’s daughter
A 32-year-old bus conductor, Sunday Thomas, has been arraigned before a Lagos chief magistrate’s court, sitting at Ebute-Meta for allegedly kidnapping his neighbour’s four-year-old daughter.
Babayaro: Keshi is confused
Atlanta 96 Olympic Gold medalist, Emmanuel Babayaro has reacted to Super Eagles Coach Stephen Keshi’s denial about his resignation from his role.
Nothing ‘ll make me change my mind to coach Eagles again – Keshi
Nigeriacoach Stephen Keshi talks about ‘resignation’Stephen Keshi has parted ways with the Nigeria Football Federation. This is the true situation and not that the Nigerian coach has resigned. His contract with the federation ended with the World Cup and the Federation is not planning, as we exclusively reported more than three months ago, to renew the contract.
Foreign coaches scramble for Super Eagles job
The scramble for who takes over the position of Super Eagles coach has started after France kicked Eagles out of the Brazil World Cup.
Fani-Kayode’s return to his vomit, repudiate everything he said he stood for – APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has insisted that Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode not only lied but distorted facts to reach a prepossessed conclusion on the party’s comments concerning the proscription of Boko Haram by the Federal Government
Bill on assets of PLCs passes second reading in House of Reps
THE House of Representatives, yesterday, passed through second reading, a bill that would ensure that private companies, whose total assets exceed N80 billion, convert to public liability companies, PLCs.
