By Charly Agwam – Bauchi Residents of communities in Ganjuwa and Ningi local government areas have called on Bauchi state government to provide more support for EU-UNICEF sponsored medical outreaches in Hard-To-Reach communities for sustainable outcomes. Beneficiaries at Hardo Gaga, Kururu settlements in Ganjuwa and Ningi local government areas respectively told Vanguard on Thursday during […]

..Fire records its highest ..Collapsed buildings, 23, among others By Olasunkanmi Akoni Empirical evidence has revealed that out of 959 emergency incidents from January 1st to  November, 30th, 2019, road accidents recorded the highest number with 315 cases. Director General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Dr. Femi Oke-Osanyintiolu, disclosed this, Wednesday, while giving out […]

By Emma Una – Calabar There are reports of  an eruption of early morning communal warfare between the  neighbouring communities of Ebom and Usumutong in Abi Local Government Area of Cross River state. An eye witness told Vanguard that the skirmishes started on Thursday at about 5 am in the morning and many lives have […]

  The Cross River State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) said on Wednesday that flood destroyed 4,370 houses and displaced over 51,000 people in 212 communities in the state. The Director-General of SEMA, Mr. Princewill Ayim, disclosed this in a chat with journalists in Calabar, the state capital. Ayim said the incident occurred between July and […]

Japanese international Takumi Minamino signed for Champions League holders Liverpool on Thursday for a reported fee of £7.25 million ($9.5 million) from Austrian outfit Red Bull Salzburg, the Premier League leaders announced. The 24-year-old forward — who impressed Liverpool in their two Champions League group matches this season with the Austrian side — is believed […]

By Charly Agwam – Bauchi A rural woman, Fraida Ishyaku of Jauro Hassan settlement in Ganjuwa local government area of Bauchi state has narrated how she was told she would ‘cough for life’ after she suffered from pneumonia for years without knowing the name of the sickness and the cure for it. Fraida, a mother […]

After he officially became the third United States president to be impeached, Donald Trump was on stage at a “Merry Christmas” rally in Michigan and lashed out at the Democrats. He claimed they have “branded themselves with an eternal mark of shame.” “With today’s illegal unconstitutional and partisan impeachment, the do-nothing Democrats are declaring their […]

THE Punch newspaper recently decided it would henceforth prefix President Muhammadu Buhari’s name with his military rank of Major-General and refer to his administration as a regime. In an editorial entitled “Buhari’s lawlessness: Our stand”, the newspaper said it would refer to the president and his government in those militaristic and pejorative terms “until they purge themselves of their insufferable contempt for the rule of law.”

Billionaire businessman and politician, Ned Nwoko, has flagged off a malaria eradication program to overcome the recurring tragedy of hundreds of thousands of avoidable health complications and deaths as a result of the deadly disease. Speaking during a world press conference in Abuja yesterday, Nwoko said the Prince Ned Nwoko Foundation was committed to rendering […]

As the world battled the COVID-19 pandemic, frontline healthcare workers faced unprecedented challenges, and Lateefat Abbas, a Nigerian Registered Nurse and Midwife, rose to the occasion.