President Muhammadu Buhari has imposed an overnight curfew order across the country between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. daily starting from May 4. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Daniel Ndukwe, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Enugu. Ndukwe said that the state’s Commissioner of Police, Mr Ahmad Abdurrahman, had made it clear […]

The Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) has revealed that no fewer than 55 journalists across 23 countries have died of COVID-19 infection between March and April 2020. As the world marks another World Press Day, the Nigeria Guild of Editor (NGE) has congratulated journalists and media practitioners across the world, especially those in the frontline covering […]

Japan will extend the state of emergency due to the coronavirus pandemic by nearly a month, as it is still reporting hundreds of new infection cases daily, the government said on Monday.

Police in Osun State on Monday arraigned three persons at the Osogbo Magistrates’ Court for alleged assault and breach of public peace. The trio, Aribi Fatai (24) Akin Olumide (24) and Olabisi Afolabi (20), are standing trial on a three-count charge of conspiracy, breach of public peace and assault. The prosecutor, ASP Abiodun Fagboyinbo, told […]

By Shina Abubakar – Osogbo The Osun State Joint Task Force (JTF), recently inaugurated by Governor Adegboyega Oyetola, has apprehended 27 illegal miners, comprising 17 Chinese nationals with 10 locals and a local traditional chief (Baale). They were arrested following a coordinated sting operation around Ilesa and Ife axis of the State. Speaking on the […]

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on Monday said it would ensure women’s and girls’ choices and rights to sexual reproductive health were respected regardless of their COVID-19 status. Dr. Sabrina Pestilli, Reproductive-Maternal Health Adviser, UNFPA, said this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. The statement was signed […]

We lost Tony Allen, one of the greatest drummers in the history of popular music. His collaboration with Fela created Afrobeat. As has been said, they fused Nigerian sounds with jazz, to give the world Afrobeat. He provided the percussive wings on which Fela’s music flew into our lives and the world.

Just as the ease of the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) lockdown directive by the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, became effective in Lagos State on Monday, Lagosians were seen trooping out to resume their daily activities. Some of these Lagosians were seen violating the safety guidelines recommended and always promoted by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control […]

Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto on Monday, said a 8p.m. to 6a.m. curfew will go into effect  on Monday, as part of new measures to contain the spread of the COVID-19 in the state.

Anambra State-born Ndidi Dorothy Chiazor-Enenmor is an award-winning author of many children’s books. Married with four children, Chiazor-Enenmor holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and a Post Graduate Diploma in English from the University of Lagos. She recorded a major feat in her creative writing career last year when her book, “A Hero’s Welcome” made the longlist of The Nigeria Prize for Literature, 2019 sponsored by Nigeria LNG. This brilliant writer shares more in this interview with Vanguard’s Arts & Reviews:

Dr Adedeji Adesope ‘From inability to let well alone, from too much zeal for the new and contempt for what is old, from putting knowledge before wisdom, science before art, and cleverness before common sense, from treating patients as cases, and from making the cure of the disease more grievous than the Endurance of same, […]

Consumer Reports has analyzed the privacy policies of Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and WebEx and discovered that they may be collecting more data than many people realize. To be clear: Consumer Reports isn’t saying that these apps are unsafe to use. (Indeed, a separate Mozilla report found that nearly every major videoconferencing app meets basic […]

By Peter Duru – Makurdi Three persons were feared dead in a bloody communal clash that broke out between neighbouring Odejo and Ikobi communities in Agatu and Apa Local Government Areas, LGAs respectively, of Benue State. According to different accounts from the area, some militias from  Odejo community on Sunday launched an attack on Ikobi […]

The Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, and Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals, NUAHP, have again warned the Federal Government against easing the lock-down on the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Lagos and Ogun states in the wake of coronavirus. Easing of the lock-down begins today.

ABUJA—As Nigeria yesterday joined the rest of the world to mark the World Press Freedom Day, WPFD, 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari, said yesterday that Nigeria had an unhealthy dose of disinformation, fake news, hate news, disseminated by people who use media platforms, particularly the digital variant.