The Executive Committee, Professional Golf Association of Nigeria, PGA, on Wednesday, said it would organise a special training programme to prepare amateur female golfers to play professionally.

The World Health Organization’s international mission to China to investigate the origins of Covid-19 will explore all avenues and is not looking to find “guilty” parties, a team member told AFP. Investigators will head to China in January and to Wuhan, where the first cases were detected 12 months ago in the pandemic that has […]

More than a million people have received their first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine in the United States, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Robert Redfield said Wednesday. “The United States achieved an early but important milestone today — jurisdictions have now reported that more than one million people have received their first […]

By Temisan Amoye Former England coach and West Bromwich Albion manager Sam Allardyce has cautioned Arsenal that their status as a Premier League club is at stake if the Gunners do not turnaround their miserable PL campaign. Arsenal shockingly find themselves in 15th place on the premier league log, securing 14 points from 14 games […]

Over 200 women in Lagos have benefitted from empowerment funds by BetKing, a leading sports betting digital platform, in partnership with the Lagos State Empowerment Trust Fund, LSETF, aimed at supporting small businesses and business owners in local communities.

Pope Francis expressed his desire to visit crisis-hit Lebanon and urged political leaders in South Sudan to continue working for peace in Christmas Eve messages. Lebanon was plunged into its worst economic crisis in decades by the devastating port blast in Beirut in August. In a message to Cardinal Bechara Rai, the patriarch of the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has asked Nigerians to give the military and other security agencies more time, cooperation, and support and also give them information on bandits and other criminals. Buhari said this in his Christmas message to Nigerians on Thursday, which was made available to journalists by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi […]

Photos by Bunmi Azeez Last minute shopping for Christmas celebration at Idumota market, Lagos Island, December 24, 2020. ALSO READ: Yuletide: Traders in Warri lament soaring prices of foodstuff Vanguard News Nigeria

James Ogunnaike, Abeokuta The Vigilante Group of Nigeria, (VGN) says it has concluded arrangement to deploy no fewer than six million of its officers, to ensure hitch-free celebrations during the Christmas and New Year festivities. The Commander General of the Group, Dr Usman. Muhammad Jahun disclosed this in a press statement made available to newsmen […]

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China on Thursday suspended flights to and from Britain after it reported a new, more infectious strain of the coronavirus. China has largely curbed the spread of Covid-19 within its borders, but authorities remain highly vigilant about the threat of “imported” virus cases. “Given the exceptional nature of the virus mutation and its potential impact […]

By Francis Efe – Warri As residents in the oil-rich city of Warri go about their last-minute shopping for the Yuletide, with barely a day to Christmas, business activities were not yet felt in the market due to high cost of goods and services. But in spite of the high prices of foodstuff, some residents […]

A member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, South-West Zonal Caretaker Committee, Mrs Funmilayo Ogun, yesterday, described Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, as an accidental governor and a mistake that the PDP will no longer make.

THE Alaafin of Oyo, Oba, Lamidi Adeyemi and some eminent Nigerians were recently conferred with honorary doctorate degrees of Espam-formation University located in Cotonou, Benin Republic. In a statement by the Nigeria representative of the University, Dr. Akande Babatunde stated that other eminent Nigerians were honored along with the Alaafin of Oyo, at a well-attended […]

Vanguard’s Agbonkhese Oboh is one of the seven journalists that won the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa, CAPPA’s journalism fellowship on the #TransFatFreeNigeria campaign. Andrew Mshelia (Nagarta Radio), Abenmire Adi (HitFM/Cross River Watch), Chukuwumah Muanya (The Guardian), Temitayo Ayetoto (BusinessDay), Frank Ajufo (Vision FM) and Amos Abba (ICIR) are the other winners. A statement […]