The Federal Government says only about three per cent of Nigeria’s population has been vaccinated against COVID-19 largely due to poor access to the vaccine by developing countries. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said this in Madrid, Spain at the 24th General Assembly of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO). […]

The Nigeria Institute of Soil Science, NISS, on Saturday said efforts must be made to stop deforestation and bush burning to protect the soil from excessive evaporation and loss of organic matters needed for its health.

Nigeria did not record a single COVID-19 death on Saturday. The country’s death toll to the pandemic still stands at 2,980. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) stated on Sunday, however, that the country recorded 54 new infections in seven states and the FCT on Saturday. READ ALSO:IGP approves establishment of Special Desk for […]

Air Peace airline has reacted to an online video accusing the airline of charging discriminatory fares especially on South East routes.

By Dele Sobowale “The greatest glory is not in never falling, but rising each time you fall.” Chief Obafemi Awolowo,     ,VBQ,VBQ p 55 I am sure most people must by now have assumed that the VANGUARD BOOKOF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, has no Nigerian entry; that it is all about foreign insights. But, Awolowo’s observation on success […]

By Ibrahim Hassan-Wuyo  Lt.Gen Muhammadu Inuwa Wushishi has died in a London hospital at the age of 81. Wushishi was the Chief of Army Staff during the President Shagari administration in the early 1980s. Details later:

General Muhammadu Wushishi is dead  –  “Those who sacrificed their lives to keep “Nigeria one are going “‘ -ACF By Ibrahim Hassan-Wuyo  Lt.Gen Muhammadu Inuwa Wushishi has died in a London hospital at the age of 81. Wushishi was the Chief of Army Staff during the President Shagari administration in the early 1980s. READ ALSO:IGP […]

The Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, recently held its convocation ceremonies during which thousands of students savored the joy of completing their programmes and bagging degrees in different fields.

A psychiatrist, Dr. Julie Ogwunga, has said that flogging drug addicts was not the best solution to the menace of substance abuse, warning that the measure was harmful and dangerous, and could drive victims underground.

By Ibrahim Hassan-Wuyo  Lt.Gen Muhammadu Inuwa Wushishi has died in a London hospital at the age of 81. Wushishi was the Chief of Army Staff during the President Shagari administration in the early 1980s. Vanguard News Nigeria

Olanrewaju Michael George (OMG) has described Oba Babatunde Ajayi FCA, The Torungbuwa II and Paramount Ruler of Remo Kingdom, Sagamu, as a selfless leader on his 59th birthday.

No fewer than 3,326,400 Johnson and Johnson vaccine doses purchased by the Mastercard Foundation and the Africa CDC through the Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative have landed in Nigeria.

As Osoba throws weight behind direct primary The 11 Nigerian senators who visited former Ogun State governor, Olusegun Osoba, have revealed that the visit is about drawing wisdom from an elder statesman. The lawmakers fairly drawn from regions in Nigeria expressed that the visit is a non-partisan one devoid of “political party or regional colouration.” […]

Last Wednesday, Nigerians woke up with the news of a new COVID-19 variant which the World Health Organisation, WHO, has christened Omicron.

By Joseph Erunke – Abuja THE National Association of Polytechnic Students,NAPS,has elected its new executive officers following its National Convention held Weekend, at the FCT Education Resource Centre,Abuja. The convention saw the emergence of Comrade Kingsley Chinonso Asiegbu from the Federal Polytechnic Oko,in Anambra State ,emerging as the president of the association. At the convention, […]