wka—A man, wife and their eldest son were, yesterday, crushed to death in an accident involving their ash-coloured Toyota Camry and a container-bearing truck at Agu Awka end of Enugu-Onitsha expressway.

THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and a former governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi were yesterday engaged in war of words over alleged moves to prosecute the former governor by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. While the PDP raised alarm over plans to shield Fayemi from inevitable arrest and prosecution by EFCC, the former governor said the party was merely hallucinating.

LAGOS—Operatives of Vigilante Group of Nigeria, VGN, Ebutte Metta chapter, have rescued a 12-year-old girl (names withheld), who was battered by her father in Lagos.

THE rains are back with heavy flooding also staging a come-back. Nigeria over the years has battled flooding disasters across the states. Recently, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA ) identified states and local government areas prone to flooding in Nigeria, cautioning against environmental habits that compound the disaster. These include Niger, Kogi, Benue, Adamawa, Anambra, Delta, Rivers and Bayelsa states.

“Here (Nigeria) we started from the supply side, we have not started the domestic demand side, we are servicing the outsiders, the thing is that Nigerian companies have not be able to embrace outsourcing because they don’t know the value. “If they know the value of the thing you want, you have to invest and protect that thing. So we are saying that outsourcing is the key to economic growth, it is the key to job creation, it is the key to creating wealth, for individuals and for the nation.”

I HAVE watched carefully, with high expectation, but also with a tinge of regret, certain national developments since you were sworn-in as the democratically elected President of Nigeria on May 29, 2015. People have accused your government of lethargy.

By Jude Opara, Abuja Newly appointed Chief Coach of the Super Eagles, Sunday Oliseh is expected to arrive Nigeria tomorrow ahead of his scheduled unveiling by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). He will be coming with chairman of the technical committee of the federation, Felix Anyansi-Agwu. A source at the NFF told Sports Vanguard over […]

Governor Idris Wada of Kogi State has said that despite the financial challenge faced by the state, it was wrong for any one to insinuate that it was a failed state.

IT does not take a genius to know why the All Progressives Congress (APC) is in crisis. From the look of things, the situation may not change within the foreseeable future. If care is not taken, APC may not rule for more than one term of office, at least not in the current format. It […]

Three prominent Lagos-based lawyers yesterday, said the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, needed to do more in the area of prosecution and win cases, to justify its establishment.