The Chairman, Southern Kaduna Christian Leader’s Forum, Rev Simon Mutum, has expressed confidence that Nigeria would outlive her present challenges. Mutum spoke on Saturday at the 19th annual Southern Kaduna Prayer Summit held at the Township Stadium in Kafanchan, Jema’a Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The clergy stated that there was still hope for […]

…DISCOs embark on load shading By Udeme Akpan The power supply has dropped from 3,993.65 megawatts, MW, to 3,608 MW, indicating a drop of 385.65 MW, because of many challenges, including inadequate gas, poor transmission infrastructure and limited distribution facilities. In its latest report obtained by Vanguard from the office of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, […]

Fourteen students died on Saturday morning in Toeni, Sourou province, in northwestern Burkina Faso when the bus transporting them jumped on a mine, Xinhua learned from a security source. “A bus transporting students to the city of Toma jumped on a mine. “The death toll is 14 and four injured,” an army official said on […]

Two United States-based professors from the School of Communication, Texas Southern University: Dr. Chris Chinweuba Ulasi and Dr. Anthony Obi Ogbo, have revived the West African Pilot News, with aims at invoking the same fighting spirit of the 1930s to give the common man a voice in surmounting political, social, and economic environment the West African sub-region and Nigeria in particular.

By Olasunkanmi Akoni Tragedy struck in Lagos in the early hours of Saturday, January 4th 2020, when two yet to be identified bodies were recovered in an auto crash involving a truck and a Sport Utility Vehicle, SUV, on the notorious Otedola Bridge, along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. It was gathered that the driver of the ill […]

The Nigeria Correctional Service trained no fewer than 215 inmates in Enugu in 2019, an official said on Saturday. Mr Emeka Monday, the Public Relations Officer of the Enugu State Command of the service, said in a statement in Enugu that the inmates were trained in different vocations in line with the mandate of the […]

By Samuel Oyadongha & Emem Idio The Federal Government it was learnt over the weekend has taken over the medical expenses of the Bayelsa born conjoined twins separation surgery. The conjoined twins who were born on December 12 at the Nembe-City General Hospital in Bayelsa State, it was gathered were airlifted with their parents by […]

The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has advised the Federal Government to address the gaps in the economic ecosystem to benefit from the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in 2020. The Director-General of MAN, Mr. Segun Ajayi-Kadir, spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Lagos. Ajayi-Kadir said that the government […]

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has begun a six-day march through the jungle, walking 195 km (121 miles). He is retracing the route he and his forces took in 1986 when they seized power from Idi Amin and Milton Obote. Critics have dismissed the march as a stunt ahead of Uganda’s elections next year when Mr. […]

By Umar Yusuf Adamawa state has commenced the implementation of new minimum wage with effect from December 2019. The state did not only start the implementation of the #30, 000 as approved by the Federal government, but went further to increase its own take home by state workers to #32,000.00 READ ALSO: Umahi directs new […]

By Boluwaji Obahopo – Lokoja The pronouncement by President Muhammadu Buhari that he will retire from politics in 2023 has been described as a new year gift for the people of Nigeria. Former governor of Kogi State, Chief Clarance Olafemi in a statement obtained by Vanguard on Saturday in Lokoja said the President’s pronouncement as […]

Thousands of Iraqis, including senior politicians, attended the funeral of a top Iranian general and Iraqi militiamen in Baghdad on Saturday, following a U.S. airstrike that sharply escalated tensions across the region. The attack near Baghdad airport killed Qassem Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force, and Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, the deputy head of […]

China replaced its top representative in Hong Kong on Saturday in a major reshuffle for the semi-autonomous Chinese city following six months of political unrest. Luo Huining, the former Communist Party Secretary of Shanxi Province, will replace the outgoing Wang Zhimin as the head of the Hong Kong Liaison Office, according to the state-run Xinhua […]

NATO has suspended its training missions in Iraq, a spokesman for the alliance said Saturday, following the US killing of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani. The NATO mission in Iraq, which consists of several hundred personnel, trains the country’s security forces at the request of the Baghdad government to prevent the return of the Islamic […]

When President Donald Trump’s national security team came to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Monday, they weren’t expecting him to approve an operation to kill General Qassem Soleimani. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Defence Secretary Mark Esper, and General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had gone to Palm Beach, Florida, […]