Former Education Minister, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, is well known in Nigeria’s political, legal and investment circles and remains fearlessly assertive in whatever he believes in.

I had this irresistible urge to go out on Tuesday that was quite unlike me. The ease in lockdown was just a day old and the normal me would have skipped the week just to test the waters. I tried to justify this itch by rationalising that I had been on personal lockdown long before the official one.

Richard Owubokiri is one of  the most iconic names in Nigerian football. ‘Ricky’ began his professional football career at Sharks FC but not before doing extraordinary things at the football team of the famed Okrika Grammar School in Rivers State.

Respite came the way of the embattled former governor of Abia State and Chief Whip of the Senate, Dr, Orji Uzor Kalu, on Friday, as the Supreme Court, quashed the judgement that convicted and sentenced him to 12 years imprisonment. 

TRAGEDY struck on Friday evening at the popular Moniya motor park, in Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State, as one person was reportedly killed, while several vehicles, shops and property worth millions of naira were destroyed by fire.

Dr Orji Kalu’s kinsmen on Friday hailed the verdict of the Supreme Court, which nullified the conviction of the former governor of Abia,  who was handed down 12-year jail term for corruption.

The Lagos State Government has announced the closure of Creek Road from Mr Biggs to Warehouse road junction in Apapa area of the state, for construction.

Since the beginning of the Covid-19 era, the level of insecurity in Lagos has been high. News of the re-emergence of the notorious 1 million Boys robbery gang has dominated the news waves for sometime now, even as the Lagos State Police Command has consistently refused to acknowledge their (the group’s) existence.  Police check point

Few days after the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions on Nigeria’s commercial and administrative capitals of Lagos and the FCT respectively, were lifted, the Federal government, was already considering the possibility of locking them down again. Indeed, if the disregard for social distancing was bad during the lockdown in the two cities, it was certainly worse during the lifting of the lockdown restrictions in the two cities.

By Ephraim Oseji Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain and former Delta State governorship aspirant, Chief Sunny Onueoske has joined other Nigerians in praying for the quick recovery of the founder of DAAR Communications Plc, owners of AIT and Raypower, High Chief Raymond Dokpesi and members of his family who tested positive for Covid-19. The PDP […]

Budding Afro-beat artiste, Odekhian Ehinomen Osborne, professionally known as OCJ has revealed that his secret crush on popular reggae-dancehall songstress, Cynthia Morgan inspired the title of his latest single. In a chat with Vanguard, the 23-year-old Edo native, who released his single titled “Cynthia Morgan” in April, revealed that he has long had an appreciation […]

There is  tension  in the Armed Forces of Nigeria as well as other uniformed personnel of security agencies over the non-payment of their April 2020 salaries as a result of what insiders termed ‘incapability and inexperience’ of the operators of the Integrated Payroll and Personal Information System (IPPIS).

Enugu State Government in furtherance of its efforts to contain the spread of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in the state, on Friday, launched the distribution of one million units of fabric face masks to its residents across the 17 local government areas for protection, free of charge.

Shocking revelations emerged, over the week, that the sum of N100million found in the bank account of the wife of late billionaire kidnapper, Collins Ezenwa, popularly known as E-money, which was suspected to be proceed of crime and was ordered to be seized and forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria, by the Federal High Court, Owerri , Imo state has disappeared.

Former Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate and Speaker of ECOWAS Parliament, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, nailed the Nigerian situation in three words that have stuck in the Nigerian political lexicon: feeding bottle federalism.