…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 […]