Police in Enugu State urge residents to maintain existing peace
The Police in Enugu State, have urged the residents to maintain the existing peace by shunning rumours and other acts capable of truncating the peace in the state.
‘Igbo have so much investment in the north. You don’t expect us to leave ‘
Okechukwu Ugo has been left in a predicament after an ultimatum was issued for all southern Christians of Igbo heritage to leave Nigeria’s Muslim-majority north.
‘Daddy, I’ll be a pilot!’ and he was only 4 years old
Be careful what you dream about, it may well come to pass. Oluwatobi is my firstborn, “my might, and the beginning of my strength.” One day, when he was just four years old, we were all in the living room; myself, his mom, and his sister, when he exclaimed:”Daddy, I’ll be a pilot!”
Over 140 people feared buried in China landslide
Chinese rescuers scoured through rocks on Saturday in a frantic search for more than 140 people feared buried after a landslide smashed through a mountain village in southwest Sichuan province.
Graft: ICPC has power to investigate any person – Court
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, affirmed the powers of the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC, to investigate allegations of corrupt practices made against any person or authority in Nigeria, even if the allegations arose in civil disputes
Teachers protest FG’s plan to handover primary school teachers’ salaries to LG
THOUSANDS of teachers in Ebonyi State, yesterday, protested against the alleged plan by the Federal Government to hand over the payment of primary school teachers’ salaries to local governments in Nigeria.
When my nephew disappeared —Victoria Ojeme, Vanguard reporter
With the rise in kidnapping and ritual killings in the country, Mrs. Victoria Ojeme has every reason to be thankful to God for delivering her eight-year old nephew, Francis Atule who lives with her from the hands of kidnappers. Mrs Ojeme shared the experience with Saturday Vanguard from her Lugbe residence in Abuja thus…
Five months pregnant Montano runs 800m race
American runner Alysia Montano stole the headlines on Thursday at the USA Track and Field Championships despite not winning the race.
South-South group carpet Arewa youths, ask IPOB, MASSOB to drop agitation
The Youths from the South-South zone of the country under the aegis of Oil & Solid Mineral Producing Area Landlords Association of Nigeria (OMPALAN) have condemned in its entirety the statement credited to the coalition of Northern youths, calling on the Igbos to quit the North before October 1st.
Nigeria secures $4bn telecoms investment from India
A team of Indian entrepreneurs has offered to invest about $4 billion into the Nigerian telecommunications sector.
Rohr: No longer at ease
Since the defeat of the Super Eagles by the Bafana Bafana of South Africa in Uyo in a 2019 AFCON qualifier a fortnight ago, nothing seems the same again for the team, and in particular, its handler, Gernot Rohr. Even the hierarchy of the Nigeria Football Federation that had seemingly been so pleased with the German tactician all along, was jolted to flex some muscles.
