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.

PORT HAR-COURT— Rivers State governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, in the April poll, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has dismissed speculations that he was down with stroke. Peterside, who spoke to Vanguard during his media briefing, yesterday in Port Harcourt, called on his supporters to dismiss such rumour coming from political opponents.

The Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, Headquarters Monitoring Team, Idiroko axis, at the weekend, said it has intercepted 810 cartons of frozen poultry products worth N4, 374, 000.

Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State has congratulated the 1987 Nobel prize winner for Literature, Prof Wole Soyinka, on the occasion of his 81st birthday. Amosun, according to a statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr Taiwo Adeoluwa, described Soyinka as “A quintessential scholar, who bestrides the literary world like a colossus.

Foremost economist, Professor Patrick Utomi, has commended the recent bailout by President Muhammadu Buhari’s led Federal Government to all tiers of government towards offsetting outstanding salaries of workers, saying the move will stimulate the economy.

The Federal Government has reiterated its commitment to the provision of affordable housing for Nigerians in partnership with the private sector. Vice President Yemi Osibanjo stated this in his keynote address at the 2015 Abuja Housing Show & Housing Development Awards, in Abuja, with the theme: “Delivery of Affordable Housing: Financing, Building Technology and Land Issues in Nigeria”.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) recently excluded some goods being imported into the country from the list of items valid for foreign exchange in the Nigerian foreign exchange markets. The implication of this is that those who import these items can no longer buy foreign currency from banks, bureaux de change or any other official source to pay overseas suppliers of such goods. Instead, they have to source their foreign exchange from outside the banks and bureaux de change. These items are not banned but importers cannot access foreign exchange from Nigerian banks.

Honourable Philip Shuaibu represents Etsako Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives. He was a Minority Whip in Edo State House of Assembly for two years and later became the Majority leader for six years. He was also a former National President of the National Association of Nigerian Students. In this interview he says that it is the rebels in the All Progressives Congress, APC, are causing the crisis and that the situation now does not need federal character. He also speaks on other issues.