The Lagos State House of Assembly has appointed Mr Olalekan Onafeko as the Acting Clerk of the House. The Speaker of the House, Mr Mudashiru Obasa, made this known before the commencement of the day’s plenary on Monday in Lagos. Obasa confirmed Onafeko as the acting clerk after a voice vote by lawmakers present during […]

By Festus Ahon Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, yesterday, urged Nigerians to support the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, back to power in 2023 to restore good governance, including infrastructural development in the country. Okowa who stated this at a thanksgiving service, said the PDP would do everything possible with the support of Nigerians to […]

…Promises to advance gains recorded in Edo The Inspector-General of Police, IGP M.A. Adamu, NPM, mni, has assured the nation, particularly the people of Ondo State, of the commitment of the Nigeria Police Force to replicate and advance the gains recorded by the Force and other security agencies during the Edo Gubernatorial Election as the […]

…Urges EFCC to swing into action By Dirisu Yakubu – Abuja With less than two weeks to the Ondo state governorship election, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, national campaign council has described the excuse by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu that he submitted the account of the spending of COVID-19 response funds to an Abuja based Non-Governmental […]

Zatem Consultancy Services will, on Saturday, October 3, hold a conference termed Literary Connect 2.0, that will see administrators, teachers, special needs tutors and other coming together.

Niger state government has announced the reopening of all basic and post-basic classes of private and public institutions for third term of 2019/2020 academic session on Oct. 4. Hajiya Hannatu Salihu, the Niger state Commissioner for Education, announced this during a news conference in Minna on Monday. Salihu said that the decision to reopen schools […]

By Onozure Dania The 36 state governors, through their respective Attorneys General and Commissioners for Justice, have dragged the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, AGF,  Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN, before the Supreme Court over the failure of the Federal Government to fund the courts in the country with recurrent expenditure since […]

By Samuel Oyadongha & Emem Idio – Yenogoa The Ijaw Nation Development Group, INDG, in collaboration with other Ijaw organisations as well as individuals and representatives of Izon organizations globally, has rejected the passage of the proposed Water Resources Bill in its present form describing it as “another backdoor attempt to own our resources.” The […]

The Federal Government on Monday in Abuja has set up modalities for the disbursement of 2, 000 to cushion effects of subsidy removal. Dr George Akume, Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs in his speech at Inter-Ministerial Stakeholders meeting on Poverty Alleviation said the initiative was also part of programme to lift 100 million […]

By Adesina Wahab and Adeola Badru Lagos State University (LASU) has elected members of Senate/Governing Council Vice Chancellor Selection Committee to screen and select the institution’s next Vice Chancellor. The elected members of the committee are; Professors Barakat Animashaun, Olatunde Owolabi and Babatunde Yusuf. Vanguard can confirm that the University’s outgoing VC, Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, […]

By Adesina Wahab and Adeola Badru Eighteen professors, 11 of them from the University of Ibadan, UI, are now in the race to become the next Vice Chancellor of the institution, checks by our correspondent have revealed. Apart from the 11 applicants from UI, there are three from the University of Ilorin, one each from […]

…We are not aware of incident – police By Ozioruva Aliu Edo state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar Adamu, to bring a Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to Governor Godwin Obaseki, to justice for allegedly shooting dead one Mrs. Yado Odogbo, a member of the […]

By Michael Eboh The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, paid itself N1.53 trillion as subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, also known as petrol, in three years and six months, from January 2017 to June 2020, according to series of documents obtained, Monday, from the corporation. According to the documents, in 2017, 2018 and 2019, […]

Victor Ogunyinka Millions of Nigerians slept Sunday night anticipating a Monday showdown with the Federal Government after the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) rejected the increase in fuel and electricity tariff. It was a drum of war with scepticism. On September 18, 2020, when the Labour unions gave the FG […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has stressed the need for all arms of government to deploy resources to address the common needs of all citizens rather than the greed of a callous few. The president made the call at the 2nd National Summit on Diminishing Corruption and launch of the National Ethics and Integrity Policy, organised by […]