Authorities in China on Monday detained a law professor who published essays criticising President Xi Jinping over the coronavirus pandemic and his efforts to consolidate power, according to friends of the man. Xu Zhangrun, a rare outspoken critic of the government in China’s heavily censored academia, was taken from his home in suburban Beijing by […]

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 544 confirmed new coronavirus cases in the country on Sunday. The 544 cases announced by the Centre for Disease Control takes the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 28711. The NCDC also announced the discharge of 203 patients from isolation centers across the country with […]

Dayo Johnson The Secretary to Ondo State Government, Mr Ifedayo Abegunde has resigned his appointment. Abegunde said he would communicate his next line of action within the next 24 hours. Vanguard, however, gathered that he would be defecting to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party soon. Abegunde is a close friend to the defected deputy governor, […]

Organise 4 part series zoom webinar throughout July By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja Private school proprietors under the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools, NAPPS, FCT chapter, Sunday, disclosed move to mobilize for school reopening amid Coronavirus, COVID-19, crisis. This was made known in a statement signed by the President, NAPPS, FCT, Olusola Bankole, […]

By Soni Daniel Former National Vice Chairman North West of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Inuwa Abdulkadir, is dead. Abdulkadir was a member of APC’s national working committee that was dissolved recently. The late Inuwa Abdulkadir was also a former Minister of Youth and Sports Development during the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan. Until his […]

…They ‘re political nomads, says PDP [This article was first published Oct 29, 2009, at 04:55am] By Emmanuel Aziken & Henry Umoru As the opposition’s plot against President Umaru Yar’Adua’s perceived second term aspiration thickens in Abuja, a former Head of State, General Mohammadu Buhari (rtd) described his administration as a failure. Not a few […]

By Charly Agwam – Bauchi To alleviate the hardship on Bauchi residents occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bauchi State government has granted tax reliefs to taxpayers in the state. The Executive Chairman of the Board of Internal Revenue, Muazu Usman disclosed this in a press release issued to journalists yesterday, stating that the governor, […]

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*Laments rescued girls’ education in ruins *Asks FG to account for $2m UNFPA Safe School Initiatives released by UNFPA By Chris Ochayi The Middle Belt Forum, MBF, Sunday, raised concerns over the plight of the rescued 103 Chibok Secondary School girls abducted by the Boko Haram terrorists, lamenting that the Federal Government has abandoned the […]

Nathan Sharibu, the father of Leah Sharibu who was one of the 110 Schoolgirls abducted from their school in Dapchi by the terrorist Boko Haram group in February 2018 has disproved the allegation by the All Progressives Congress (APC) party that the former aide to Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Pastor Reno Omokri did not remit the proceeds from […]