A former Minister of Transportation, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, has pleaded with Nigerians to close ranks to tame the novel coronavirus, saying “it is wrong to play politics with the disease’’.

Tom Cruise will film his next Hollywood blockbuster on location — 250 miles up in the air and orbiting the Earth once every 90 minutes. The “Top Gun” star will fly through the stratosphere to shoot an as-yet-unknown film aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA said on Tuesday. The American space agency’s director Jim […]

A cross-section of Enugu residents on Friday appealed to the state government to urgently check the indiscriminate dumping of refuse in drainage to avoid flooding in communities.

China hit back Wednesday at US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over his claims that the coronavirus originated in a lab in Wuhan, saying he “doesn’t have any” evidence. Washington and Beijing have clashed repeatedly over the virus, which emerged in China late last year but has since spiralled into a global pandemic. Conspiracy theories […]

By Festus Ahon – Asaba Policemen attached to the Delta State command, on Wednesday, arrested over 20 persons in Asaba, the State capital for not wearing a facemask in public. The Vanguard gathered that the Police officers who were attached to the Okpanam police division arrested the facemask defaulters around the Midwifery market along Okpanam […]

Players at Barcelona and Real Madrid started to undergo coronavirus tests on Wednesday as La Liga clubs planned to return to restricted training ahead of the proposed resumption of the season next month. Barca captain Lionel Messi and France international Antoine Griezmann were among players pictured arriving one by one in their cars at the […]

By Lawani Mikairu House of Representatives Committee on Aviation on Wednesday, condemned the decision of the federal government to use foreign airlines to evacuate stranded Nigerians abroad when there are three Nigerian airlines that can effectively carry out the evacuation. The position of the committee was made known by the Chairman, Hon. Nnolim Nnaji who […]

Heavy rains in Kenya have caused floods and landslides that have left 194 dead and destroyed crops since the deluge began last month, complicating the fight against the coronavirus, the government said Wednesday. The heavy flooding comes after similarly deadly rainfall at the end of last year, and brings with it a second wave of locusts […]

Shina Abubakar – Osogbo Adagunodo ruling house in Iwoland has warned conspirators orchestrating the removal of Oluwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi to steer clear the idea, describing it as a long dream. A statement issued by Prince Semiu Oladimeji popularly called Fanta on behalf of the Adagunodo ruling house stated that the monarch was not installed […]

Some 61 percent fewer new cars were registered on German roads in April 2020 than a year ago, official data showed Wednesday, as Europe’s automobile powerhouse matched its neighbours’ plunging sales for the industry. At 120,840, the sales figure from the KBA road transport authority was the lowest monthly reading since German reunification in 1990, […]