As Nigerians count days to the country’s general elections come March 28 2015, many foreigners appear to be leaving the country in droves as witnessed by Vanguard Consular Advisory at both Lagos and Abuja international airports.

Ghana striker Benjamin Tetteh has been passed fit to return to action for Ghana’s tantalizing semi-final clash against Nigeria at the 2015 African Youth Championship.

Worried by the sufferings of millions of Nigerians occasioned by the astronomical increase in electricity tariff by the National Electricity Commission, NEC, President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered the regulatory body to review the tariff downwards with immediately effect.

Nigeria has begun the “final onslaught” against Boko Haram, the country’s national security spokesman said on Tuesday, after the militants were ousted from the strategic town of Bama.

You apply in person to the Electoral Officer of your LGA/Area Council for a replacement of the lost/damaged voter’s card. This must be done not later than thirty 30 days before the election. You will be required to pay a processing fee.

PLATEAU State in the past few years has witnessed series of violent crises with some of traceable to the 2015 general polls.
Residents of Jos, the state capital are still recalling the horror that was visited on the city after the November, 2008 local council election as well as the tension the 2011 general elections generated.

Thank you for honoring me with your presence here today. Thank you for heeding my invitation to this special meeting with key stakeholders in the Nigerian media. Our country is on the verge of something new. The tide has turned and the world can sense the wave of CHANGE that is about to flood this nation. In less than two weeks, the Nigerian electorate will head to the polls to make their voices heard.

A Zimbabwean woman wrongly accused of killing a young boy has been lynched by an angry mob in a shanty town near the South African capital, Pretoria.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked the police in the Birniwa council area of Jigawa State to stop the incessant harassment and intimidation of its members in the area, saying the police is a national institution that should always be neutral and non-partisan.

Zimbabwe police on Tuesday fired teargas to disperse hundreds of students rallying in support of their unpaid lecturers, witnesses said.