Niger Delta ex-militants under the amnesty programme, have reacted to the purported demand of Reformed Egbesu Boys of Niger Delta, calling for the sack of the coordinator of the amnesty programme and Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, Brig. Gen. Paul Boroh (retd), over alleged inexperience in effectively coordinating the programme.

Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria, SMEDAN, with the Sokoto State Government has commenced the training of 100 youths on entrepreneurship skills.

I’ve been in London for the past five months, but I read Nigerian newspapers online every day and I am in regular contact with Nigerian friends, colleagues and relatives.

There was controversy yesterday as a number of the delegates scheduled for tomorrow’s governorship primaries were said to have gone missing or disappeared. Vanguard gathered that a number of the delegates who were disappeared were, however, being quartered in choice hotels under heavy police guard.

The recent outburst by Osun State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN has again fuel another round of confusion in the state as students turned out in their church garments to their schools in obedience to the religious body order. CANs order, in reaction to the the court judgment that permits the wearing of hijab by Muslim girls to school showed that it was not ready to tolerate the wearing og hijab in public schools in spite of the judgement of a competent court.

IT is the Biblical story of David and Goliath enacted on African soil. More appropriately, it is the case of two Goliaths against a tiny David. Western Sahara is a tiny African country which may be one of the reasons it was bypassed during the so called ‘Wind of change’ that swept through Africa in the 1960s decolonising most of the continent. In 1960 alone, 17 African countries became independent.

Recently, there have been reports of plan by the Federal Government to evacuate about 1, 934, 765 Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, who are living in formal camps, host communities and satellite camps in the country. The intention is to return them to their respective liberated communities in the North Eastern states of Borno,

WORLD football governing body FIFA have said they will release new seeding for 2018 World Cup qualifying tournament African zone on June 21 following complaints from several of the teams.

Athletics Federation of Nigeria president Solomon Ogba has revealed that Nigeria risks missing the African Athletics Championships in Durban, South Africa, if the athletes don’t travel on Saturday.

With our unflinching resolve to make the best out of the month, carry out all the required ibadah, actively involved in acts of devotion, prayers, Tarawih, tahjud, Quran recitation, and other forms of worship, we have to work towards realising these goals. We will go into details of all these one after the other insha Allah.

AS a way of diversifying the ailing nation’s economy, the Group Managing Director of a Lagos-based hotel, Nanet Hotel and Suites, Mr. Ini Akpabio, has called on the Federal Government to look towards boosting the tourism sector. Akpabio said that building up the tourism sector can lead to it taking over oil sector’s lead position in the country.

Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC, has filed a debt recovery suit against former chairman of defunct Fortune Bank Plc, Mr Henry MacPepple, before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos.

Six people were reportedly killed while twenty three others injured in two separate auto crashes in Lagos, Wednesday night and yesterday respectively.

Five persons were confirmed dead when their vehicle rammed into a stationery truck, late Wednesday, night, at Third Mainland Bridge, inward Oworonshoki area of the state, while one person died yesterday in the accident involving a Volkswagen commercial bus with 18 passengers on board which somersaulted on its way to Mile 12 from Lagos Island at Alapere inward toll-gate.

The International Committee of the All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA, in partnership with the African Union Commission, AUC, have joined other Nigerians to pay tribute to Babatunde Jezreel Okungbowa a.k.a OJB Jezreel who died on Tuesday.

Old rivals Germany and Poland fought a battle of attrition that ended in a goalless draw and edged both countries towards a place in the last 16 of Euro 2016 on Thursday.