Police on Saturday fired tear gas at a fresh demonstration in Niger against French weekly Charlie Hebdo’s publication of a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed, according to an AFP reporter on the scene.

A suicide bomber killed at least five people and wounded 11 on Friday near a marketplace in northeastern Nigeria, an emergency services official told AFP.

The All Progressives Congress Presidential candidate, Gen. Mohammadu Buhari yesterday stated that Nigeria was losing the war against insurgency because of the low moral in the military, the police and other paramilitary services.

A46-year-old man Olubusayo Sunday reportedly killed his wife, daughter and committed suicide.

A 65 years old woman popularly called ‘Iya Oyo’ has been hospitalized having been attacked by two rams in Ado Ekiti, a development that led to the arrest of the rams by the police

NATIONAL leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP said yesterday that the visit of President Goodluck Jonathan and the Service Chiefs to Borno State would help boost the morale of the military.

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday, warned against post election violence,saying the emergence of any candidate is only the desire of the people.

Mr. Gboyega Oyetola, the Chief of Staff to Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun, on Friday disclosed that the 19 agencies and bureaus under the Office of the Governor are to jointly spend a sum of N18,645,514,610 in the new year, 2015.

By John |Egbokhan The continent’s biggest show, the Nations Cup revs off in grand style today in Bata, with the defending champions, the Super Eagles absent and watching as spectators as Equatorial Guinea confront Congo in the opening match at the Estadio de bata. In its 3oth edition, this year’s AFCON has come with a […]

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said that there had not been any free and fair elections in the country since Nigeria’s independence in 1960, as what had been happening since then was that people have been “buying and selling votes.”

FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information and South South leader, Chief Edwin Clark yesterday asked the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to expel the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo from the party.

The Lagos state Governor has stated that the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, has always been his choice candidate all through the build up to the APC governorship primaries held over a month ago.

P EOPLE’S Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain in Delta State and member, Ogidigben Export Processing Zone, EPZ, Interface Committee, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Chief Thomas Ereyitomi, spoke to Saturday Vanguard in Warri on the lingering controversy between the Ijaw and Itsekiri ethnic groups on the

Uneasy is the head that bears the crown. That is the challenge facing Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa as he steps out to wrestle with fate and destiny in the Delta States political terrain, where he is aspiring to occupy the Unity House at Okpanam Road, Asaba.

WITH electioneering campaigns of the two leading political parties in Nigeria, All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP, already in full swing expectation of issue- driven campaigns is widespread.