By David Royal The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Nigeria has now exceeded 5,000 on Thursday night. Announcing the new development, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said the country on Thursday, recorded 193 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in Nigeria to 5,162. The NCDC also said that […]

A US government meat inspector died this week from coronavirus, the fourth fatality of a food safety official in the outbreak that has shuttered some slaughterhouses, union officials said Thursday. The US Department of Agriculture food safety inspector was from Dodge City, Kansas, said a spokesman for the American Federation of Government Employees. The other […]

The United States on Thursday renewed calls on China to free the Tibetan identified 25 years earlier as the Panchen Lama and warned Beijing not to see the episode as a model for handling the Dalai Lama’s succession. On May 14, 1995, the exiled Dalai Lama, a Nobel laureate with a wide global following, recognized […]

Global satellite operator Intelsat filed for bankruptcy protection on Thursday, citing disruption from to its business from the virus pandemic, in a move aimed at restructuring its operations. The filing in the United States (US) bankruptcy court in Virginia listed more than $16 billion in debt. The company said in a statement it was “managing […]

By Ola Ajayi – Ibadan Oyo State Commissioner for Environment, Rt Hon Kehinde is dead. He died at the age of 55. The deceased commissioner was a former Speaker, Oyo State House of Assembly between 1999 and 2003 during the tenure of Alhaji Lamidi Adesina. Vanguard gathered that he suffered a yet to be disclosed […]

*As JAMB commences prosecution of 195 arrested candidates By Joseph Erunke ABUJA — ANAMBRA, Imo and Enugu have appeared most visible as states with the highest number of candidates who cheated during the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. A total of 195 candidates found wanting in the three-week-long examination that took place nationwide and […]

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru – Abuja PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his determination to put to an end the sorrows Nigerians are passing through as a result of the heightened insecurity in the country. Consequently, the President has said he is committed to spending whatever resources he has at his disposal to bring to a quick […]

United States President, Donald Trump, broke with tradition Thursday by calling for investigation of his White House predecessor Barack Obama in the latest attempt to push a conspiracy theory about his Democratic opponents. Washington operates under unwritten rules that presidents and ex-presidents avoid public clashes. However, Trump, less than six months from a volatile reelection […]

ABUJA- Embattled former governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, who is currently the Chief Whip of the Senate, has asked the Federal High Court in Lagos to order his release from prison.

ABA: ABIA State Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu has commended the Abia State Command of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for successfully raiding and destroying notorious illegal drugs camp in Aba.