Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue says the newly inaugurated Air Peace flight to Makurdi will further open the state to direct foreign investment. Ortom said this during the inaugural flight of Air Peace to Makurdi on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent on the inaugural flight from Lagos-Makurdi-Abuja reports the flight, number P47440 […]

By Dirisu Yakubu – Abuja The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said the call by its House of Representatives caucus asking Nigerians to direct their representatives, across party lines, to commence impeachment process against President Muhammadu Buhari is constitutional and democratic. This is as party stated that the call is a direct reflection of the […]

By Ike Uchechukwu The campaign council of Rt. Hon. Jarigbe Agom has rejected the outcome Saturday’s Cross River North senatorial by-election. Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) had declared Dr Stephen Odey of the candidate of People’s Democratic Party, PDP, as winner Also, the INEC’s Collation Officer for senatorial by-election, Prof. Ameh Akoh, […]

James Ogunnaike – Abeokuta An armed robbery suspect was on the 6th of December 2020 gunned down by men of Ogun State Police Command along Shagamu/Ikenne expressway. The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this to newsmen in Abeokuta, the State capital. According to Oyeyemi, the robber met his waterloo when a […]

The newly-elected president of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Sunday Asefon, has decried the incessant strike actions by lecturers, which have crippled academic activities in the country. Asefon said it is unfortunate that many students end up spending up to seven years in the university for a course of four years. According to […]

By Anayo Okoli THE South East Zonal leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has rejected the allegation by the Ebonyi State governor, David Umahi, that some of its leaders in the state were cultists and members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and dismissed as a bait to incite security operatives against them. […]

Task them to be innovative, adaptive James Ogunnaike – Abeokuta Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, on Monday charged the new Governing Council of the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH), Sagamu, to be innovative, adaptive and reposition the tertiary health institution. Abiodun, who gave the charge during the inauguration of the Council, at the […]

…as Lagos Police debunk viral video By Bose Adelaja Following warnings by Lagos State Police Command against violent gatherings across the state,  there appeared to be total compliance on Monday, as EndSARS Protesters were conspicuously absent at the various proposed venues in the state just as the Police have debunked a viral video about protest […]

By Arogbonlo Israel It was an eyesore as scores of commercial motorcyclists popularly called ‘Okada’ riders clashed with Danfo drivers on Monday. There was pandemonium this morning in Mile 2 area of Lagos, which caused panic in the axis as many road users scampered to safety, including Vanguard reporter who had firsthand experience of the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has warned that any act of hooliganism hiding behind lawful and peaceful protests would be dealt with decisively, to ensure peace and stability in the country. The president gave the warning when he virtually declared open the Chief of Army Staff’s Annual Conference 2020 in Abuja on Monday. Buhari commended the Nigerian […]

…Faked US citizenship; escaped through Sokoto on bike …Used Thuraya satellite phone to shield location, arrest …Inter-agency collaboration to the rescue By Emma Nnadozie, Crime Editor Details emerged weekend of how chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Abdullahi Maina, was arrested in far away Niamey, capital of Niger Republic, after detectives from […]

By Dennis Agbo Members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, have protested the result of last Saturday’s bye-election for Isi-Uzo House of Assembly in Enugu state where Mrs Amaka Ugwueze of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was declared winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Dissatisfied by the INEC declaration, members of the APC […]

The Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), says there is no recruitment exercise going on in the institution, warning members of public to be wary of those behind the rumour. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the social media have been awash with a recruitment exercise purported being planned by the institution. Mr […]

…Chides President for playing party’s spokesman By Dirisu Yakubu The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Monday, berated President Muhammadu Buhari over his claim that the All Progressives Congress, APC, made a clean sweep in the December 5 bye-elections, “describing it as another desperate measure to divert public attention from its manifest failures.” The PDP also accused […]

By Dennis Agbo Members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, have protested the result of last Saturday’s bye-election for Isi-Uzo House of Assembly in Enugu state where Mrs. Amaka Ugwueze of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was declared winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Dissatisfied by the INEC declaration, members of the APC […]