Abuja—After years of neglect of the designer of the Nigerian Flag, Mr Taiwo Akinkunmi came to a dramatic end yesterday as President Goodluck Jonathan, while conferring him with a national honour award, also announced his appointment as a Special Assistant, with a salary for life.

Barely two weeks after the collapse of the guest house at Synagogue Church of All Nations in Lagos, a fresh indication emerged yesterday that the church was given an approval for a 12-storey building by the Lagos State government.

The very act of suggesting or announcing a potential cure for the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, has become riskier than envisaged as claimants of such unverified and “unorthodox” cures now stand the risk of going to prison if threats by the American Food and Drug Administration, FDA, are anything to go by.

President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, yesterday for the first time spoke on the controversial $9.3m cash allegedly smuggled into South Africa by two Nigerians and an Israeli using his private jet. The money which has been confiscated by a South African court was meant for the purchase of arms for the Nigerian Intelligence Services. This is just as the #BringBackOurGirls# campaign group, has said it will soon drag the CAN president and the Federal Government to court over the money.

Ekiti State Police Command yesterday said it has arrested 19 suspects including a woman over the gruesome murder of the former chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Chief Omolafe Aderiye last Thursday.

Investigative reports from Nigeria and Senegal exposed the threat of counterfeit electrical products, prompting public outcry, regulatory action, and continental recognition through a Schneider Electric media award on electrical counterfeiting in Africa. By Femi Ajasa, Online Editor Fires linked to electrical faults intensified in Nigeria and Senegal. From Alaba International Market in Lagos to the […]

YESTERDAY Monday, 29th September 2014 was another day of pomp and pageantry at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, as President Goodluck Jonathan presented the 2014 edition of National Honours to no fewer than 304 recipients.

LAGOS—Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, expressed readiness of his administration to fund Prof. Maurice Iwu’s abandoned research work on infectious diseases, such as the deadly Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, if he so desired to benefit from the state’s N142,239,000 million research grant.

THE former President of Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Chief O. C. J. Okocha (SAN), has called on security agencies in the state to identify those who allegedly locked the gates leading to the state judiciary complex ahead of a meeting of judges of the state for sanction.

After several campaigns by Vanguard to draw the attention of the Lagos State Government to the deplorable state of the road which links the popular ghetto community, Ajegunle to the ever-busy Oshodi/Apapa expressway, residents, Sunday, heaved sigh of relief as construction giant, Julius Berger, JB, Plc commenced repairs on the road. The road was abandoned for at least 14 years.

Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has called on Rivers people to choose a credible person to succeed him on May 29, next year.

WE are celebrating another independence day, the same ritual; razzmatazz and demonstrations. Speeches. Promises and promises, all of the same, so much motion but no movement.

Two businessmen, Noma Mohammed, 41, and Kabiru Mohammed, 32, were yesterday brought before a Lagos Magistrates’ Court sitting at Igbosere for allegedly defrauding a Bureau de Change owner of $50,000.

No fewer than four persons, including a pregnant woman, were feared dead yesterday, while 20 others sustained various degrees of injuries as a gasoline-laden tanker somersaulted and exploded on the New Auto Spare Parts Market Flyover, Nkpor, near Onitsha, Anambra State.

The troubled Nigerian Football Federation appears to be swimming in more troubled waters with elections into its executive board scheduled to hold today at the Golden Tulip Hotel, Warri, with a purported court injunction served the 37 FA Associations and the principal officers including Sports Minister, Dr Tammy Danagogo to stop the elections.