Ortom predicts landslide victory for PDP By Peter Duru – Makurdi Local government election was Saturday held peacefully across the 276 council wards of Benue state with a large turn out of voters in the urban and rural areas. Five political parties including then the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Labour Party, LP, African Action Congress, […]

The governorship primary election of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC in Edo state slated for June 22 has come under threat following disagreement by stakeholders on the model to be adopted for the exercise.

The Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has arrested a 43-year-old man for allegedly defiling his 15-year-old daughter in Lugbe area of Abuja. The Commissioner of Police in FCT, Mr Bala Ciroma, disclosed on Friday this at a media briefing in Abuja. Ciroma said the suspect was mentally stable and had confessed to […]

By Omeiza Ajayi ABUJA – The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has promised to go ahead with the Governorship Elections in Edo and Ondo states as well as nine legislative bye-elections in nine states of the Federation, saying it would not allow the Covid-19 pandemic to truncate the nation’s democracy and electoral process. Chairman of […]

  By Ozioruva Aliu – Benin City Nineteen days after he was abducted from his farm, the decomposing body of Edo state former Commissioner for Youths and Sports and former chairman, Ovia North-East local government area, Hon Egbe Ediagbonya has been recovered from a forest near his farm in Utese. He was kidnapped in the […]

In response to reported statement by President Muhammadu Buhari, that former dictator, Sani Abacha, ‘stole close to $1billion’, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), Saturday faulted Buhari’s submission, saying that Abacha stole far more than $1billion.

Britain, France, and Germany on Saturday strongly condemned a US decision to end sanctions waivers for companies from nations that remain in a nuclear accord with Iran. The waivers were part of the landmark agreement signed with Tehran in 2015 that sought to limit Iran’s nuclear ambitions in return for lifting crippling economic sanctions. They […]

The European Union on Saturday called on the United States (US) to “reconsider” the decision to sever ties with the World Health Organisation (WHO) over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. President Donald Trump said Friday he was severing US ties with the WHO, accusing it of failing to do enough to combat the initial […]

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has approved the reconstitution of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, after the expiration of the term of the board members appointed in 2016.

By Ike Uchechukwu, Calabar There was massive turn out of voters who came to cast their votes for the Local government polls in the 18 LGA in  of Cross River especially Calabar metropolis. The voters were observed adhering strictly to the COVID-19 protocol. Vanguard also observed that Cross River State Independent Electoral Commission,CROSIEC  made sure […]