Newcastle United and Norwich City were relegated from the Premier League on Wednesday as Sunderland secured their survival with a one-sided 3-0 victory over Everton.

DETAILS have emerged on how a male school drop-out in his late 20s allegedly poured fuel on an official of the Department of State Services, DSS, and set him ablaze at Oghara, Delta State.

More than 20 local government areas in Delta State have not received salaries in the last eight to 10 months and are reportedly starving.

As investigation into the domestic violence that led to the alleged killing of Mrs Ronke Shonde by her husband , Lekan, last week in Egbeda area of Lagos continues, Vanguard gathered that an autopsy was conducted on the corpse yesterday to ascertain the exact cause of her death.

Bayelsa State governor, Mr Seriake Dickson, yesterday, condemned the killing of seven Naval and Joint Task Force code named Operation Pulo Shield personnel, along the creek of Nembe and Foropa community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Areas of the state respectively and other parts of the Niger Delta region.

Call it mere ‘infatuation’ or “social media madness”, you may not be wrong. But the truth is that American rapper, Curtis James Jackson a.k.a 50 Cent has been caught crushing openly on the charming Nigerian songstress, Ada Jane Okwori popularly known as Imelda J.

The Federal Government has finally removed subsidy from sale Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, also known as petrol with immediate effect.

Not less than 41 million abortions totalling 73 percent of all abortions in the world between 2010 and 2014, were obtained by married women, according to a new study by the Guttmacher Institute and the World Health Organisation.

Incensed by reports attributed to Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State that his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, would return to power at the centre in 2019, the All Progressives Congress, APC, has said it would not react to such “idle postulations.”

Failure of successive governments has been attributed to their inability to provide the required vision and expertise needed to ignite economic growth in the country since independence. Nigerian Bar Association NBA , President Mr Augustine Alegeh SAN, made this assertion while delivering a lecture titled Law and National Development at the 15th Annual Justice Idigbe Memorial Lecture, organized by the Faculty of Law, University of Benin, Edo state.

NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday, faulted the plan by Federal Government to spend N90 billion in this year’s budget on the power sector that was already private sector driven.

MINISTER of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, yesterday, raised the alarm that the economy of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, was facing serious threat as a result of its monolithic nature.

Last week, the Global Fund said it had suspended the disbursement of grants to two Federal health agencies in Nigeria, following the discovery of shady practices relating to procurements conducted by them.

MEMBERS of Niger Delta Avengers, largely an Ijaw militant group, which admitted bombing oil and gas installations in Delta State, recently, have gone underground following a massive manhunt for them by the Army, Navy and other security agencies.

The immediate past national chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, and the party’s candidate in the Anambra Central senatorial re-run election, Chief Victor Umeh, has blamed the former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, for the lingering impasse.