The Kwara Government has recorded 19 more COVID-19 cases in the state with 18 patients, who tested negative twice, discharged. Mr Rafiu Ajakaye, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor and Spokesman of the Technical Committee on COVID-19, made this known in a statement on Tuesday in Ilorin. READ ALSO: COVID-19: Ganduje shuts down schools in Kano […]

Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (rtd), Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme, on Monday, reiterated the commitment of the PAP Office to provide quality empowerment packages for beneficiaries of the Presidential Amnesty Programme. This, he says will reduce the ex-agitators’ dependence on the monthly N65,000 stipends and give them a decent and more sustainable means of livelihood. […]

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, Abuja Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, on Tuesday, said it was not true that the court intentionally froze accounts of promoters of the recent #EndSARS protest. Justice Tsoho stressed that contrary to media reports, the court froze accounts of some corporate entities the Central Bank of Nigeria, […]

Recording one of the most impressive and amazing appearance of notable personalities and public figures across diverse sectors in Nigeria, was the recent award event of Igbere TV Leadership Excellence Awards held in Abuja at Sheraton Hotels and Towers on the 10th of December 2020. The Award occasion honoured outstanding excellence of Senator Uba Sani, […]

THERE are indications that the working relationship between the Nigerian Shippers Council, NSC, the ports economic regulator, and the Presidential Task Team, PTT, on Apapa Ports traffic gridlock, may have collapsed.

A Japanese court on Tuesday sentenced to death a serial killer, Takahiro Shiraishi, also known as the “Twitter killer” for murdering eight women and a man he met on social media. Delivering judgment, the Judge, Yano Naokuni, said the death sentence against Shiraishi was prompted by the “extreme seriousness” of his crimes, the New York […]

By Godfrey Bivbere & Providence Adeyinka THERE are indications that the problematic traffic bedevilling the port city of Apapa, Lagos and its environ is being fuelled by corruption with some stakeholders smiling to the bank daily even as the sector which is the second largest revenue contributor to the economy bleeds. Investigation by Vanguard Maritime Report revealed […]

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, has charged officers and men of the Abia command to put the events of the EndSARS behind them and approach their duties courageously. Adamu gave the charge on Tuesday in Umuahia during an official visit to the command as part of his nationwide tour in the aftermath of […]

By Rita Okoye Internet service in Nigeria is poor and most of the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Nigeria are having a field day getting paid for services they are not rendering. A confirmation of the poor state of internet services in Nigeria came through the worldwide broadband speed league 2020 report, which analysed over […]

By Sunny Ikhioya ENSCONCED with a team of newsmen on this warm March mid-morning, inside the private office of his Banana Island residence, Chief Leemon Agbonjagwe Ikpea, JP, told his story. He had already got the nomination of the Vanguard media group as Business Person of the Year 2019, but, they needed him for a […]

By Emmanuel Elebeke Following the earlier directive on the suspension of new SIM registration by network operators, the Federal government has directed all operators in the country To disconnect every SIM card not synchronized with valid National Identity Number (NIN) by December 30th. This came after an urgent meeting of key stakeholders in the Communications […]

By Emem Idio, Yenagoa Against the backdrop of series of protest against the appointment of an interim administrator for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, a group styled Leadership, Peace and Cultural Development Initiative , LPCDI, has on called on the leadership of the Ijaw Youths Council , IYC, and other groups involved in the […]

By Martins Uba Nwamadi SOMETIME in 2005, Nigeria Shippers Council, NSC, conceptualised an idea of a dry port project in Nigeria. According to the template, Dry Ports in Asia, North America, Pakistan, UAE and some African countries have contributed tremendously to the economic growth of those countries. Armed with statistics and intimidating profile, the management […]

Extending delivery of new CBN diaspora remittance rules whilst offering customers another convenient and flexible payout option LAGOS, Nigeria  WorldRemit, a cross-border digital payments service, today launched a service for customers in Nigeria to receive international transfers in their bank accounts in USD ahead of the Christmas celebrations. This further demonstrates WorldRemit’s ongoing commitment to […]

By Jerome-Mario Utomi IN 1978, Public Relations professionals across the globe gathered in Mexico to, among other aims chart a course, and stir the ship of public relations practice. The gathering proposed and adopted a highly influential definition of public relations which it tagged; The Mexican statement. It says: “Public relations practice is the art and […]