By Nwabueze Okonkwo ONITSHA – Rt. Rev. Owen Nwokolo, Anglican Bishop on the Niger has urged the federal government to either implement the reports of the 2014 National Conference or alternatively convoke a fresh one to douse the tensions arising from various ethnic agitations in the country which in turn, culminated in national uprising and […]

Prof. Bashir Omipidan, the Director of the Centre for Open and Distance Learning (ODL) at the University of Ilorin, says that the University management has spent N6million to kick-start the institution’s open distance learning programme. Omipidan said this on Monday during the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Centre and the Department […]

The Borno state government is to set up four vocational centres with the recruitment of 3,000 teachers in the next two years.  The vocational centres are sited in Maiduguri, Mafa, Magumeri and Kwaya/Kusar to graduate 6,000 to 8,000 unemployed youths.  The Government of Morocco is to establish a vocational school in Maiduguri at the cost […]

A 15 year old indigene of Ilesa in Osun State has said there is no way she can live with a two-month old pregnancy which she claimed belongs to her biological father after he forcefully committed incest with her. According to the teenager who was weeping profusely while narrating to Vanguard how the ungodly act […]

Ola Ajayi, Ibadan THE Presiding Pastor of Christ Apostolic Church, Arogungbogunmi International, Prophet Richard Kolawole, has called on former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Abdusalam Abubakar, and Ibrahim Babangida to warn the incumbent President, Muhammadu Buhari to be cautious so as not to plunge the country into irredeemable danger. The cleric made the call when speaking with […]

Despite many military formations in Zaria, Kaduna State, the emirate has continued to be under siege due to bandits attack, Emir of Zazzau, Amb. Ahmad Nuhu Bamalli has said The Emir who spoke in his palace when beads of security agencies visited him ,said they have been under incessant attacks by bandits who abduct people […]

Suspected Fulani herdsmen on Sunday morning attacked two brothers from Ikot Atasung community in Ikot Ikpene Local government area of Akwa Ibom State in their farm, and stabbed one of them identified as Silvanus Usen to death

…Calls For Their Unconditional Release …Tasks Government To Secure Schools By Femi Bolaji The United Nations Children Fund, UNICEF, has expressed dismay over the continued detention of 150 students of Salihu Tanko Islamiya School, Tegina, in Rafi local government area of Niger state by bandits. The UN body, in a statement Monday says it is […]

Denmark keeper Kasper Schmeichel has revealed that teammate Christian Eriksen is “smiling and laughing” in hospital after surviving a cardiac arrest in their EURO 2020 clash with Finland. Schmeichel was granted permission to visit Eriksen in the hospital, with the English FA Cup winner revealing his gratitude at seeing his friend alive after the on-pitch […]

Insists: It’s turn of Delta State By Nnamdi Ojiego Rights activist, Chief Rita Lori-Ogbebor, has cautioned against reappointment of members of the dissolved substantive board of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, saying doing so would amount to violation of the act establishing the Commission. She also said the communities with the highest oil production quantum […]

CROSS River State Commissioner for Finance, Mr Asuquo Ekpenyong, says the movement of Senator Ben Ayade from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC has dealt a death blow to the PDP in the state and there is no regret about it Speaking on Monday at Eniong Abatim where he went […]

The Police Command in Plateau has said that 10 persons were killed in Kashe (Sabon Layi) community, Kuru District of Jos South Local Government of the state. ASP Ubah Ogaba, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Jos. Ogaba, who said the incident took place […]

FOLLOWING the threat issued by some Fulani Jihadists to attack Asaba and Agbor, the Delta State Commissioner of Police, Mr Ari Mohammed Ali, Sunday night, assured residents of the State of their safety.