Mr Godwin Emefiele, the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), says the plan to increase Value Added Tax (VAT) from five per cent to 7.5 per cent is in the right direction to raise country’s revenue. Emefiele stated this while fielding questions from journalists after the Monetary Policy Committee meeting held in Abuja. He […]

A tanker truck laden with 33,000 litres of automated gas oil (diesel) fell off while driving toward Berger shortly after the Otedola bridge and caused a lot of traffic jam around Lagos metropolis. The Director-General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, confirmed the incident in an interview with the News Agency of […]

By Rasheed Sobowale Good day to you anywhere you might be reading our News in Nigeria. We have compiled the top Nigerian news we think you might have missed reading today. 1. Suspected serial killer admits strangling 7 girls in P/Harcourt, others A suspected serial killer, Gracious David-West, 39, arrested by the police has admitted […]

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri The Federal Government has slammed seven-count money laundering and conspiracy charges against detained activist and convener of the RevolutionNow Protest, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, before the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court. Equally cited as a defendant in the charge marked FHC/ ABJ/CR/235/2019, a copy of which was sighted by Vanguard last […]

  Russia on Friday contested the position of a recently adopted EU resolution that the 1939 non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union led to the outbreak of World War II. Russia’s Foreign Ministry denounced the European Parliament resolution as politicised revisionism, noting that the text did not mention Western powers’ 1938 Munich […]