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50 feared killed in Lagos/Ogun communities

50 feared killed in Lagos/Ogun communities

Barely six days after some suspected militants killed 15 persons in Imushin community in Ogijo area of Ogun state, another 50 people were feared dead on Thursday night when militants swooped on the neighbouring communities in Elepete and Igbo Olomu, the borderline communities in Lagos/Ogun State. Saturday Vanguard reliably gathered that a large number of the victims were said to be landlords in the area, who were reported to be keeping security watch over the communities, due to incessant armed robbery attacks.

Power supply: Don’t shut down, don’t downsize, Fashola tells industrialists

Power supply: Don’t shut down, don’t downsize, Fashola tells industrialists

Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN, Thursday in Lagos advised industrialists, directors and other employers of labour in the country not to panic or downsize their staff in the face of current power supply challenges saying the Federal Government has put a roadmap in place that would ensure progressive power supply from incremental to steady and then uninterrupted power supply nationwide.

Biafra: IPOB disowns anti Niger-Delta Avengers group

Biafra: IPOB disowns anti Niger-Delta Avengers group

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB under the leadership of Nnamdi Kanu has stated that it has disowned those it identified as well-known turncoat who are claiming on the pages of Nigerian newspapers that they do not support their fellow freedom fighters, the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA who IPOB regarded as their kith-and-kin.

AGN crisis deepens as Ibinabo, loyalists, Emeka Ike disown caretaker committee

AGN crisis deepens as Ibinabo, loyalists, Emeka Ike disown caretaker committee

There may not be an end in sight following the crisis rocking the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) as the National Secretary of the guild under leadership of Ibinabo Fiberesima, Abubakar Yakub, has disowned the recently set up caretaker committee by a group better known as AGN stakeholders, insisting that Ibinabo remains the incumbent president of the guild.

Youth icon, Ohimai Amaize styles President Mahama of Ghana

Youth icon, Ohimai Amaize styles President Mahama of Ghana

Popular media personality and Nigerian youth icon, Ohimai Amaize well known as ‘Mr. Fix Nigeria’ has been sighted in photographs where he is styling the President of Ghana, His Excellency, John Dramani Mahama for an exclusive photo shoot with Ovation International magazine.

PDP: How Ize-Iyamu got the crown

PDP: How Ize-Iyamu got the crown

Obviously, the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium was the natural choice of venue for the governorship primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. In choosing the stadium, the party kept faith with tradition as the place had played host to such activities in the past. Members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) had completed their governorship primaries inside the football pitch only 24 hours earlier. With about three courts collapsed into a stage to accommodate about 750 delegates and other stakeholders, the venue proved to be a smart choice.

Money laundering: We’ll soon go after bank MDs- Magu, EFCC chair

Money laundering: We’ll soon go after bank MDs- Magu, EFCC chair

Abuja—Despite being vilified for selective graft war and facing possible removal by some influential presidential aides, Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, has said that he is ready to prosecute the war to the end and give the nation a new lease of life. Magu has ruled out the possibility of sparing any corrupt person in the fight, claiming that any Nigerian who commits an economic crime must pay for it.

Chidinma has been my crush for a very long time —Bonkwe

Chidinma has been my crush for a very long time —Bonkwe

Since Bonkwe released the single ‘Na you I go marry’ his fortune in the music industry has greatly improved as he has become a known voice on the streets. The budding Afro-pop star shares his story with Star Tracker and tells us what makes him tick:

Pipeline bombing: I beg you in God’s name, Buhari tells militants

Pipeline bombing: I beg you in God’s name, Buhari tells militants

The president who stated that there were many factions of the Niger Delta Militants also said that the groups were armed with sophisticated weapons and that the economy was on its knees following the bombing of gas pipelines. He also pleaded with friends and associates of the militants to reach out to them for, stressing that Nigerians do not have any other country to call their own other than Nigeria.

Bizzare: Mother of three flees over circumcision threat

Bizzare: Mother of three flees over circumcision threat

For refusing to get her children circumcised, a mother of three, Mrs Victoria Ijeoma Akinsanya has been forced to abscond her Festac town, Lagos residence to an unknown destination. Not only that, her younger brother Njoku Ifeanyi was beaten by hoodlums while their aged mother Mrs Celestina Njoku now lives in fear.

CBN forex policy: Customs loses N138.9bn in 5 months

CBN forex policy: Customs loses N138.9bn in 5 months

CONTROLLER General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali, retd, yesterday, said Nigeria lost a total of 138.9 billion, representing 35.5% in income generation expected from the agency between January and May, 2016.

Ex-police corporal reveals exploits of his robbery gang 

Ex-police corporal reveals exploits of his robbery gang 

An ex-police corporal, Christ Oboko, who is also a pastor and leader of a notorious robbery gang terrorizing Port Harcourt City, Rivers State, for a long time, has been arrested by operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, IRT. The suspect who was attached to a special criminal squad code named C4I, in Rivers State, was arrested alongside three others.

Edo 2016: Presidency wades into APC crisis

Edo 2016: Presidency wades into APC crisis

Disturbed by the possibility of losing its only state in the South-South, the Presidency has waded into the crisis generated in the aftermath of the June 18 governorship primaries of the All Progressives Congress, APC.