The tranquility hitherto witnessed by residents of Ilaje and Ajah communities in Lagos State, is presently being truncated by the   eruption of crises which have left not less than 10 persons dead, with others injured. Houses, including churches   were burnt and women, both married and singles , allegedly raped by the invaders   who stormed the communities under the cover of the darkness. Some of the residents, especially those living close to the waterside, have fled their homes.

Did you follow the FIFA Women World Cup?Did you see the American team? Well if you didn’t, there’s no need to worry. The point however, is that the United States Women Football team successfully defended the FIFA women World Cup.

I found the piece you are about to read in my pile of mails. It is a contribution from an elderly gentleman and loyal reader of the Vanguard Newspapers for many years. He admits that certain decisions made in his younger days turned out to be great mistakes and for which he now suffers tremendously.  For […]

As the curtain falls on the 2019 World University Games in Napoli, Italy, it would be on record that Nigeria did not send a team to the biennial championship, which is in its 30th edition. This is what happens when no form of accountability is required from our administrators, neither are sanctions meted out to erring officials who time and time again, bungle Nigeria’s participation in international competitions.

THE daughter of 93-years-old Pa Reuben Fasoranti, the national leader of Pan Yoruba Socio- Political group, Afenifere, Mrs Funke Olakunrin was yesterday shot dead by suspected Fulani herdsmen along Benin/Ore expressway.

The Coalition Against Terrorism and Extremism (CATE) has reacted to the recent promotion of two senior officers of the Nigerian Army. The coalition said Lt General TY Buratai, the Chief of Army Staff has no doubt distinguished himself as a true selfless leader whose usefulness knows no ethnic or religious affiliation rather competence and excellence […]

Ilorin….Kwara State, in North central part of Nigeria is no doubt a purely civil servant’s state with little or no Internally Generated Revenue to help several administrations   meet the   high expectations of the residents, at least to a reasonable extent.

Proceedings at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, came to abrupt end yesterday, as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,  and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, notified the panel that witnesses scheduled to appear and testify against President Muhammadu Buhari, were attacked by armed bandits.

Since 2015, there has been some remarkable improvements in the operations of the Nigerian Army. The Nigerian Army, though not my constituency I have over the years followed its affairs critically, and it has somewhat become my hubby to make analysis whenever there is a change in its leadership, when redeployments are carried out and […]

As Nigerians anxiously await the constitution of the new Federal Executive Council, President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday reflected on the last four years of his administration and declared that he would no longer appoint those he personally didn’t know.

The high incidence of rape, defilement and other forms of sexual violence in Nigeria has been a source of concern in recent times. 

After a successful Air Peace airline Dubai/ Sharjah route launch, the chairman of the airline, Barrister Allen Onyema in this interview   reveals some of the future plans of the airline and the current challenges. Excerpts: 

Nigeria’s efforts at growing the economy through export manufacturing by adopting the Chinese Free Trade Zone model   is yielding tremendous result. If well harnessed, free trade zones could become a means of attracting the much craved Foreign Direct Investment, FDI into the country and also a means of boosting the revenue base of the nation.

A former two-time Attorney General in Bayelsa state and grandson of the late great Ernest Sisei Ikoli; a frontline pan Africanist and pro-independence politician and journalist of repute, Mr. Anthony George-Ikoli (SAN) is in strong contention to become the PDP Governorship candidate in the forthcoming November Governorship elections.

A man  sets out with cattle and roams from Timbuktu to Calabar, on foot. And that is his life in 2019? He has no shelter. He has no education. He has no healthcare. He lives a wretched and perilous vagrant life. And we say he is entitled to live so dangerously in the name of freedom?