When the two men stormed into Vanguard’s Northern Operations office on 7 Dambta Close in the Central Area of Abuja, that Monday morning, they did so with a sense of urgency.

Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona was admitted to hospital on Friday after doctors discovered internal bleeding in his stomach, local media reported.

Nigeria’s Islamic State West Africa Province, a faction of Boko Haram affiliated to the Islamic State militant group, has intensified attacks against the army in the northeast of the country at an alarming rate, and the military appears to be struggling. Here are the principal reasons:

Journalists from all over the world visited the site of the stadium that will host the opening ceremony and the final match aside some other group matches. Although construction was ongoing it made impact on the visitors. The stadium would be ready in 2020, two years before the games. Qatar plans to host unique World Cup finals and they are working to achieve that. Tamin el Abed, the Project Manager of the stadium guided us around the project that has a Nigerian, Eugene Okosun as Health ans Safety Manager. The stadium, like the others Qatar will present, will have a cooling effect in the main bowl and the environs.

The International Air Transport Association, IATA, in its Economic Report for 2019 said airlines fuel bill will rise to $200 billion in 2019. According to the report, the number of new destinations will increase and number of aircraft fleet worldwide will equally increase by over 1000 aircraft as there will be around 4.8 million available seats by end of the year.

After more than eight days of hide-and-seek game between him and the police, who had surrounded his palatial Maitama residence, Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye, finally showed up, and presented himself to the police in Abuja.

Rangers International Football Club of Enugu have resumed training for the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Cup and the forthcoming Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL).

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has expressed worry over the large number of uncollected Permanent Voters Card (PVCs) in Plateau state. Mallam Halilu Pai, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) at a meeting with representatives of political parties in Jos, the state capital, said “43 days to the commencement of the general election, we have 309, 221 PVCs that have not been collected in this state”. He therefore appealed to the political parties to educate their supporters on the need to collect them.

PEOPLES Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta State flagged off its campaigns for the general elections, yesterday, with Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, who is seeking a second a term in office, boasting that the party would win in 25 local government areas of the state and describing opposition parties in the state as “strangers.”

A world first diagnostic saliva test for malaria is on the horizon. The saliva-based diagnostic tool, to be marketed by ERADA as a Saliva-based Malaria Asymptomatic and Asexual Rapid Test (SMAART) for subclinical infection, is set to transform malaria detection worldwide. Malaria, globally, kills an estimated 435,000 each year, mostly children under the age of five, mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Stripped of the aura with which we embellish it, January 1, is like any other day: 24 hours, 1440 minutes and 86,400 seconds.

THE cliche of the frigid wife who doesn’t want sex has been replaced by a new reality — women who are married or in a committed relationship want to be having more sex. So how does a woman in love bring the passion back into her relationship? According to Dr. Phill McGraw, a renowned sociologist: “Figuring out what you can do differently is the most efficient way to get the sex life you want.” He,along with some experts,then proceed to list some moves that will leave your man begging for mercy tonight and every night thereafter. And what better time than the New Year to start? Here in a nutshells is what they suggested:

Prince Kassim Afegbua is a spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Presidential Campaign Council and a former Information Commissioner in Edo State, South-South Nigeria. In this exclusive interview with Saturday Vanguard, he spoke on the preparedness of the PDP for big contest, why Nigerians should not re-elect President Muhammadu Buhari amongst other issues. Excerpts!

Manchester United take on Reading in the third round of this season’s FA Cup at Old Trafford in a 12:30 kickoff today.

The current upsurge in Boko Haram attacks on Nigerian Army units in Borno and Yobe states are not only as a result of inadequate weapons as being claimed but also a product of field commanders’ tactical mistakes and self-interests, Saturday Vanguard learned.