…Receives report on FCT 2020 budget The Senate has called on the Nigerian Police authorities to carry out a thorough investigation into the killing of Professor Jerome Elusiyan of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile Ife, with a view to apprehending the assailants and bringing them to justice. The upper chamber, which urged the […]

By Henry Umoru – Abuja Chairman, Senate Committee on Employment, Labour and Productivity, Senator Benjamin Uwajumogu, All Progressives Congress, APC, Imo North is dead. The Imo North Senator reportedly slumped in the toilet while taking his bath and rushed to a private hospital in Apo,  Abuja where he died. More details later… Vanguard News Nigeria.

Begs gov not to threaten elected LG chairmen By Adeola Badru Following the Supreme Court judgement that affirmed the victory of Governor Seyi Makinde in the Mach 9 governorship election, the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Oyo State, has congratulated the governor, urging him to be magnanimous in victory. The party, through its Publicity Secretary, […]

Victor Ogunyinka You can feel the fury from their choice of words, there would have been more than physical confrontation if it were a town hall meeting, but no, it all happens on social media, Twitter particularly. N37billion budgeted for National Assembly renovation (NASS)? Nigerians are bewildered. It all starts and ends on social media. […]

United States President, Donald Trump, on the verge of becoming the third US president to be impeached, sent an extraordinary letter to House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday, excoriating House Democrats and casting himself as a victim of an attempted coup. A day before the full House is set to vote on articles of impeachment […]

By Chioma Onuegbu – Uyo Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom state has signed the 2020 Appropriation bill of N597.735billion into Law. The state House of Assembly had on December 5, 2019, passed the N597.735billion budget estimate for the 2020 fiscal year as against the proposed N597.800 billion budget presented to them by the state […]

  The Kogi State Governor, Alh. Yahaya Bello has signed the 2020 Budget of the State into law at a ceremony in Government House, Wednesday. Speaking at the ceremony, the Speaker of the State Assembly, Rt Hon. Matthew Kolawole hailed the Governor’s commitment to transparency and development. He said the Assembly was “expeditious in passing […]

The Mexican Football Federation Tuesday sanctioned four youth players of Club America for “making fun of and being disrespectful” of the viral feminist anthem against sexual violence, “The Rapist is You!” A video of the footballers, dancing half naked in a locker room parodying the choreography of the song by the Chilean feminist collective LasTesis, […]

Dayo Johnson – Akure The Ondo State Police Command has declared false, the circulating rumour that the body of a missing boy was exhumed from Sotitobire church in Akure, a church earlier destroyed by irate youths in the state. Vanguard earlier reported how some irate youths in Akure set ablaze a church over the alleged […]

Former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has defended Mesut Ozil after comments made by the Gunners midfielder condemning treatment of Uighur Muslims led to a stinging backlash in China. “Mesut Ozil has the freedom of speech like everybody else and he uses his notoriety to express his opinions which are not necessarily shared by everybody, but […]

Dayo Johnson – Akure IRATE youths have killed a policeman and set ablaze Sotitobire Miracle Centre in Akure, Ondo state where a one year old boy, Gold Kolawole was kidnapped over a month ago. No fewer than six houses and five vehicles were razed by the youths who stormed the church headquarters in the Akure […]

Fallon Sherrock said she had “done it for the girls” after making history by becoming the first woman darts player to beat a man at the PDC world championship. The only other female player in the first-round draw, Japan’s Mikuru Suzuki, came agonisingly close to beating James Richardson on Sunday but was edged out in […]

Sotitobire Miracle Church in Akure, Ondo state, has been set on fire by irate youths after the corpse of a one-year-old boy declared missing in the church was allegedly exhumed.

The Kogi State Council of Chiefs under the leadership of Atta Igala, HRM Dr. Michael Ameh Oboni II has complimented the stewardship of the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Engr. (Dr.) Abubakar Sadiku Ohere. The Council gave the commendation yesterday during the valedictory meeting of the Commissioner with them at the conference hall […]

The Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, has commended officers and men of the service over successful execution of air operations against Boko Haram terrorists in the North East.