A camp of the United Nations Integrated Stabilization Mission for Mali (MINUSMA) came under attack on Tuesday. The Special Representative of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Head of MINUSMA El-Ghassim Wane made this known. El-Ghassim Wane wrote on Twitter “I strongly condemn the attack on our forces in Aguelhok this morning. I applaud the bravery […]

The Kaduna State government on Tuesday said bandits killed four persons and injured one in Jema’a Local Government Area of the state. The Commissioner for  Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, announced this in a statement on Tuesday. Aruwan said security agencies reported the attack on Goska community in Jema’a Local Government Area of […]

Against the backdrop of the fragile growth reported for Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP, in the first quarter 2021, Q1’21, economists and financial analysts in some financial institutions in Nigeria have come out with divergent forecast of the 2021 year end outlook for the economy.

The Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) says a driver died and two other persons sustained injuries in a lone accident on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Tuesday. Mr Olusola Ojuoro, Mowe-Ibafo Divisional Commander of the corps, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the incident happened at about 6.03 a.m. Ojuoro explained that […]

APC Anambra’s preferred gubernatorial candidate, Hon Azuka Okwuosa has given a breakdown of the measures required to combat insecurity in Anambra state. He enunciated that the security of Anambrarians is a priority to him and he would ensure that it is combated to the latter. Dissecting his blueprint in an interview in May, he identified […]

Economic activities resumed in Nsukka town of Enugu State on Tuesday, after Monday sit-at-home order by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) that made people to stay at home. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that, streets and roads that were deserted on Monday because of the sit-at-home order came back to life […]

Nigeria’s external reserves fell by 1.7 per cent, month-on-month (MoM) to $34.27 billion in May, the lowest level since May last year.

The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) on Tuesday confirmed the qualification of Nigeria’s Quadri Aruna for the rescheduled 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.ITTF’s Competition Director, Gabor Felegyi, announced Aruna’s qualification in a letter addressed to the President of Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) and copied the President of Nigeria Table Tennis Federation (NTTF).Aruna is the […]

The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Enugu State chapter, has thrown it’s weight behind the Southern governors over the recent ban on open grazing in the region

…Evbuonogbon villagers rejoice, say our children attend secondary school in Ondo By Ozioruva Aliu MEMBER  representing Ovia Federal Constituency, Edo State, in the House of Representatives, Hon. Dennis Idahosa, has built a secondary school at Evbuonogbon community, Ovia South-West Local Government Area, breaking the age-long practice of indigenes going to neighbouring Ondo State for secondary […]

By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, Monday, expressed doubt over the positive outcome of the ongoing consultation on the review of 1999 Constitution across the six geopolitical zones and Federal Capital Territory, FCT. Speaking with Vanguard they said the amendment consultation should focus on areas Nigerians have been agitating for amendment on […]

By Marie-Therese Nanlong The Irigwe natives in Plateau State have raised alarm over what they termed plot by “Fulani nihilists” to wipe them out of their ancestral land without any intervention by “those whose primary responsibility is the security of lives and property of all citizens.” The natives, found in Bassa local government area of […]

A Nigerian music entrepreneur, Chukwuebuka Gabriel Ilochonwu, though successful in his entertainment business, has expressed how he developed a passion for the football game as a child, to a point of his willingness to build a career out of it. Ilochonwu, popularly known as Ebuka, said he would have probably become a professional footballer by […]

A group, Concerned Northern Forum, CNF, has condemned the murder of Ahmad Ali Gulak in Owerri, Imo state, and called on the Federal Government not to allow IPOB to turn the South Eastern part of Nigeria into a Banana Republic

By Elizabeth Osayande The Visitor and Chancellor, Mountain Top University, MTU, Dr. Daniel Olukoya, has stated that against the myriad of challenges facing Nigerian tertiary institutions, the aim of establishing MTU is to have an uninterrupted academic calendar that is free from cultism, with a world class environment and facilities for learning amongst other things. […]