By Mary Adeoye Folu is one of the beneficiaries of our advocacy training. Her only sister, Pelu, died from an abortion in her final year in the university. She was a bright student, 95th percentile in her class, a student union executive but she lacked basic information about safe sex or contraceptives. Her sister’s story […]

South African middle-distance athlete Caster Semenya is aiming to run in the 200 metres at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. By doing so, she will be competing over a distance that will allow her to avoid World Athletics’ regulations limiting her testosterone levels. Semenya is a double Olympic gold medallist in the 800 metres but, as […]

By Esther Onyegbula A 21-year-old cook, Michael Temuno, who was arrested after he robbed his ex-boss at Ajao Estate, has revealed that frustration pushed him into armed robbery. According to Micheal who was paraded alongside other notorious criminals at the Lagos State Police Command Ikeja, by the Commissioner of Police Hakeem Odumosu, yesterday, he went into […]

By Ayo Onikoyi Nigeria gets global recognition once again as Nollywood’s yet to be released movie “2 Weeks In Lagos” gets screened at one of the biggest film festivals in the world, Cannes Film Festival on Friday the  17th of May 2019 in Cannes France and will be released in all cinemas in Nigeria on […]

Indonesia’s capital city will close all schools and ordered remote teaching for at least two weeks starting next week to curb the spread of the coronavirus, Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan told a broadcasted news conference on Saturday. Baswedan said out of 69 confirmed coronavirus cases nationwide, an unspecified number of people were detected in many […]

•I bought human skull for N10,000 from him – Alfa •As Beninoise arrested for alleged kidnap of woman and 6 months baby By Evelyn Usman An Islamic cleric popularly called Alfa who was arrested with a human skull at Alakija, along the Mile-Two /Badagry expressway has told the Police that he bought it for N10,000, from […]

The Edo State Government has called on residents to avoid spreading malicious and unverified information about the novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) aimed at causing panic, noting that the government has already put measures in place to avert an outbreak of the disease in the state. In a statement, Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and […]

By Ifeanyi Okolie Members of a fraud syndicate, based in Abuja, who specialized in defrauding people under the guise of assisting them to procure Federal Government contracts, have been arrested by operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, IRT. Vanguard gathered that four members of the syndicate, who were identified as […]

Algeria and Morocco have suspended flights between the two countries to prevent the spread of coronavirus. A statement from the Algerian president’s office said an agreement had been reached with the Moroccan government to suspend flights between the two countries to help fight Covid-19. On Thursday, Algeria announced the second death from coronavirus in the […]

South Korea reported more recoveries from the coronavirus than new infections on Saturday for the second day in a row, as a downward trend in daily cases raised hopes that Asia’s biggest epidemic outside China may be slowing. The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) recorded 107 new coronavirus cases on Saturday compared […]