By James Ogunnaike ABEOKUTA – The Ogun police command on Sunday said it had arrested two suspected armed robbers while robbing motorists on the long bridge along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. According to a statement issued in Abeokuta on Sunday by the State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Abimbola Oyeyemi, the suspects were arrested on June […]

Governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, in this exclusive interview with Sunday Vanguard, discusses the ratification of his candidacy by the party’s National Executive Committee, NEC, saying President Muhammadu Buhari’s stance made his emergence possible. Ize-Iyamu, who dismisses fears that Edo APC is heading to the polls as a divided house, says all tendencies have moved beyond pre-primary election controversies. The governorship hopeful also reveals what he considers his major fear ahead of the election.

The interior ocean in Jupiter’s moon Europa may be able to sustain life, Nasa scientists believe. Their work is based on computer simulations of the reservoirs below the ice-shell surface of Europa, one of the largest moons in the solar system. Calculations by scientists at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California indicate this global […]

The remains of late Acting National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress and former Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, have been laid to rest in Ibadan on Sunday. Ajimobi was buried according to Islamic rites at his 6th Avenue, Yemoja Street, Oluyole Estate residence in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, amid tight security. Ajimobi, […]

By Adeola Badru The late former governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi was buried at his Oluyole country home at 10 am on Sunday. The burial took place amid tight security from the Oluyole main road to the Yemoja street residence of the late former governor. Cleric at the burial include, Alhaji Kunle Saani, […]

Apple has secured a deal for Hollywood veteran Martin Scorsese’s next film, Killers of the Flower Moon, US media reported on Wednesday, citing sources. Killers of the Flower Moon will star Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. It is the second major film that Apple has acquired after Greyhound, starring Tom Hanks, last year. ALSO […]

Ghana’s ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has picked incumbent president, Nana Akufo-Addo, as its presidential candidate in the 2020 election, setting up a third consecutive head-to-head battle against former president John Dramani Mahama. Akufo-Addo, 76, unseated Mahama in 2016 with 53.8% of the vote, cementing the gold, and cocoa producing West African nation’s reputation as […]

By Olasunkanmi Akoni In line with its zero tolerance for acts of indiscipline, the Lagos State Management Authority, LASTMA, said plans have been concluded to take all of its identified officers accused of bribery and extortion as well as other infractions of rules of engagement before a disciplinary committee called Personnel Management Board. Acting under […]

By Rasheed Sobowale The National Lottery Trust Fund (NLTF) has revealed that two lotto operators, Premier Lotto (a.k.a Baba Ijebu) and KC Gaming (a.k.a Bet9ja), have remitted a total of N1 billion to the federal government. Mr Dele Oyewale Head, Media & Publicity of the NLTF said the payments by the lotto company was arrears […]

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court, Abuja to order the Federal Government and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to “publicly identify and name Nigerians who have so far benefited from any cash payments, cash transfers, food distribution and other reliefs and palliatives during the lockdown in Abuja, Lagos and Ogun states because of COVID-19.”