…He doesn’t speak for Gov Diri-DG …take a listen to the post that caused trouble for Kemepadei By Soni Daniel, Abuja Barely 24 hours after Vanguard broke the story of the arrest and detention of a blogger, Prince Bodmas Kemepadei, one of the media aides to Bayelsa State Governor, the governor has distanced himself from […]

The INC leadership called on Ijaw youths to be calm, saying a committee has been set up to investigate the issues arising from the IYC protest

By Innocent Anaba, Henry Ojelu & Onozure Dania Dania In response to the agitations for a review of the 1999 Constitution, the National Assembly penultimate week, kick-started a public hearing in the six geopolitical zones in the country. Vanguard Law & Human Rights, in this edition, sought the views of senior lawyers on key areas […]

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah, has, again, decried government’s inability to stop killings and banditry, saying the country’s leaders have no blood in their hearts.

The Nigerian Police, on Wednesday, said it had discovered some cells of the proscribed IPOB, in two senatorial districts of Edo State

By Soni Daniel, Abuja In a bid to further checkmate the widespread effect of corruption in the public service, the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, has called on the Code of Conduct Bureau to begin the publication of assets declared by public and civil servants. Currently, […]

In Lagos alone, a total of 455 cases of child protection concerns were recorded in one year. The violence was rarely an isolated incident

The duo made the request while concluding keynote addresses presented before the plenary at the official opening of the First Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament sitting in Abuja

By Ozioruva Aliu THE candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Oredo West constituency into the Edo State House of Assembly during the 2019 election, Eghosa Agbonifo has commended the appointment of Hon Osaigbovo Iyoha as the Chief of Staff to Governor Godwin Obaseki describing his appointment as “a round peg in a round […]

By Elizabeth Osayande Stakeholders in the education sector have expressed divergent views over the plan by the Federal Government to introduce an Education Television platform to help prepare Senior Secondary School students for external examinations being conducted by the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, the National Examinations Council, NECO among others. The programme is designed […]

….says media report about alleged secret memo false By Ikechukwu Nnochiri The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, has described as false and fictitious, a report alleging that he sent a secret memo to President Muhammadu Buhari, urging him to suspend the 1999 Constitution and declare martial law in the […]

The staff of Chimola School in Akure, the Ondo state capital whose was in the school bus hijacked today by gunmen has been released.

BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME Prominent Ijaw leader and activist High Chief Lucky Akara Gbeneyei  has  said  some of those calling for appointment of a substantive board for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, were the same persons that had allegedly  failed to executive projects awarded them for Ijaw communities by the commission. Addressing the media  in […]

The National Assembly will next week assess the level of implementation of the National Anti-Corruption Strategy 2017-2021 (NACS)

A kidney disease patient from Umuahia South Local Government Area of Abia State, Mrs. Florence Ngozi Eluwa, who needs N15 million for urgent kidney transplant has appealed to governmet and public-spirited individuals and organisations to come to her rescue.