…reject the appointment of Sole Administrator By Samuel Oyadongha, Yenagoa Angry Ijaw youths on Monday blocked the East-West road in protest over the appointment of a Sole Administrator instead of a substantive board for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). ALSO READ: Why permanent National ID Cards not produced yet ― Aregbesola The protesters massed at […]

By Chioma Onuegbu – Uyo Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State has ordered an investigation into the alleged maltreatment and abuse of a student in a Deeper Life School in the state. The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Ini Ememobong disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen in Uyo entitled, “Akwa […]

By Shina Abubakar – Osogbo The Minister of Interior, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, has disclosed that the production of permanent National Identity cards for newly registered citizens would be a huge cost for the nation. Aregbesola while speaking fielding questions from journalists in Ilesa during the weekend said the National Identity Number which is the most […]

By Nwafor Sunday The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, yesterday asked Nigerians to be grateful that his principal’s fight against insecurity has reduced daily attacks on Nigerians. Speaking on Sunday while appearing on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics programme, Mr Adesina opined that: “There could be five, six bombings […]

As a new strain of COVID-19 is reported in the United Kingdom, the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has insisted that travellers must obey travel protocol, as the country awaits further guidance from the World Health Organisation, WHO.

…Seals Cubana nightclub, others for flouting guidelines ….NCDC insists travellers must obey protocol By Chioma Obinna, Olasunkanmi Akoni Lagos State Government, yesterday, dismissed insinuation of plans to impose a second lockdown on the state, describing it as baseless and untrue. This came as the state special task force on COVID-19 shut Cubana nightclub, Ikeja GRA, […]

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru THE harsh economic situation occasioned by the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic and negative impact of the border closure on the private sector and the ordinary Nigerians made President Muhammadu Buhari to order the re-opening of shut land borders, a top Presidency source has stated. The source who spoke on the condition […]

By Udo Ibuot VANGUARD newspapers won two prizes at the Nigeria Media Merit Awards, NMMA, in Lagos, weekend. The first prize was in the political reporter of the year category, won by Clifford Ndujihe, with his entry on ‘Nigeria spends N2 trillion on NASS in 21 years.’ The second prize went to Michael Eboh, with […]

By Peter Okutu – Abakaliki The Ebonyi State Police Command, weekend, arraigned a Pastor, Christopher Ebenyi, 45, for allegedly defiling a five-year-old girl, (name withheld), in Ebonyi State. Vanguard gathered that the cleric is of the Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Renewal Movement, Abakaliki. The defendant was said to have gone to the victim’s house to sell […]

…Say such incidents dampen interest in education By Adesina Wahab Abduction and kidnap of students under any guise, as witnessed in the case of students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State or previous incidents in Chibok, Borno State and Dapchi, Yobe State must no longer be allowed to happen again, the Nigeria Union […]