The combined troops of 4 Brigade and 32 Artillery Brigade Nigerian Army Exercise Crocodile Smile IV have recovered eight Dane guns and 725 bags of substance suspected to be cannabis.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday commended the Chadian Forces over their contributions to the counter-insurgency campaign in the Lake Chad Basin.

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has called on Christians to sustain their prayers for the success of his administration and the development of the State. Speaking during the Golden Jubilee Anniversary celebration and Thanksgiving service of St Peter’s Anglican Church Rumuepirikom Deanery on Sunday, Governor Wike said the state is currently faced with enemies […]

James Ogunnaike – Abeokuta No fewer than six persons, including four adults and two children, were on Sunday crushed to death, by truck at Ijebu-Imushin, in Ijebu East Local Government Area of Ogun State. The incident, according to the Public Relations Officer, Traffic Road and Enforcement Compliance Corps (TRACE), Babatunde Akinbiyi, was caused by wrongful […]

Dele Sobowale’s “Labour unions in fantasyland over minimum wage”  (see Vanguard Monday 2nd December 2019) rekindled a fond memory of the late witty-wag and veteran newspaper columnist, Chief Bisi Onabanjo (read: Aiyekoto). Asked   in   a television programme: “The Press”, what motivated his weekly witty reflection over the years. One, he said, was an irresistible urge for deliberate mischief. The second,   self-indulgence for want to do. Nobody would ever pretend that we are in the age of humility. I will therefore not be surprised if Uncle Dele, like the late statesman-columnist, would accept that his weekly   word counts   are out of   deliberate mischief   or boredom of retirement.