By Victor Young IndustriALL Global Union, IGU, through its Africa’s Vice President, Issa Aremu, has called for reindustrialisation in Africa, urging governments and trade unions to collaborate and intensify campaigns for sustainable industrial policies for the continent to mitigate the negative impact of COVID-19 on jobs and investment. Issa Aremu, in his address at the […]

By Theresa Nanlong – Jos Following the increasing number of people infected with the COVID-19 disease in Plateau State and the continued flagrant disregard for safety protocols, the State government has threatened to return the State to the period of total lockdown to curb the rate of community infection in the State. The State Commissioner […]

By Adeola Badru RESIDENTS of Tose in Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State, on Monday, woke up to the news of a five-year-old boy, Mujeeb who was macheted to death by yet-to-be-identified assailants. Vanguard gathered that just after Monday morning’s rainfall, Mujeeb had gone to the back of their house to defecate only to […]

The flag bearer of All Progressives Congress (APC), in the Edo State governorship election, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu has thanked party members after the party’s primary election while reaffirming his commitment to unifying the party ahead of the Edo State election.

By Ola Ajayi – Ibadan As cases of COVID-19 increase in Oyo State, staff of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, protested non-payment of their share of the hazard allowance paid to doctors and other health workers. They took their protest to the office of the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the teaching hospital, Prof. […]

Blames commission’s failure to pay huge debt on NASS embargo By Egufe Yafugborhi THE Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has lamented that its 2019 budget was never implemented because its approval by the National Assembly (NASS) came only six weeks before its expiration. NDDC Director, Corporate Affairs, Charles Odili, expressed the lamentation Monday in Port […]

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have re-arrested a former Assistant Director in the Federal Civil Service, John Yakubu Yusuf, who has been on the run since 2018 after the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, sentenced him to six years imprisonment and a fine of N22.9 billion, for conniving with five other suspects to steal N32.8 billion Police Pension Fund. Based on his re-arrest, Justice Baba Yusuf of the FCT High Court on Monday, June 22, 2020, issued a remand order that will enable him to serve his six years jail term in Kuje Correctional Service, Abuja.

BENIN CITY – THE Federal High Court sitting in Benin City yesterday adjourned ruling to July 6 to decide either to hand-off case or to go on with the case on the direct mode of primary adopted by the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the nomination of the party’s governorship candidate.

David Lanre Messan is an idea strategist and creative social entrepreneur with key interests in start-ups, music, fashion and technology. Messan is the Chief Executive of TroggeUrban Limited, a talent management, digital marketing and business project management company. He spoke to Vanguard’s Agbonkhese Oboh on his life, business and ways to sustaining businesses for centuries […]

The Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority is set to invest another    N114 billion into the Presidential Fertilizer Initiative (PFI).