Bishop who defended indigenous people dies in Brazil aged 92
The Spanish bishop Pedro Casaldaliga, a fervent defender of the indigenous people of the Amazon, died Saturday at the age of 92 in Brazil, where he had been living since 1968, his office said. The Prelature of Sao Felix do Araguaia, in the central-western state of Mato Grosso, where Casaldaliga was bishop emeritus, announced in […]
STATE OF THE NATION: Buhari’s critics are vocal propagandists – Bisi Akande
FORMER Interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Bisi Akande, has been absent from the political scene for quite some time but explains that “for reasons of old age at 82, I am not as ambulant as before in political activities.”
How man lost four children in Katsina downpour
By Andy Asemota Indication has emerged that at least four children of the Ward Head of Jiqada, Mani Local Government Area, Katsina State, drowned in this week’s heavy downpour that over flooded the stream in the community. VANGUARD gathered that when the former speaker of the State House of Assembly and member representing the Mani […]
MASKED, 60-YR-OLD WORSHIPERS:Controversy as Lagos churches reopen today
Churches in Lagos State are reopening today after four and a half weeks of lockdown occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic.
ZONING: El-Rufai backs South, says no northerner should run in 2023
Amid controversy over the propriety of rotational presidency between North and South, Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai has said no northerner should contest for the presidency in 2023.
Abiodun mourns as Kashamu dies of COVID-19
A former senator and leading figure of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the South-West, Senator Buruji Kashamu, is dead.
