…Warns against use of chemicals to enhance food, drinks … Submits investigation report to Kano Govt By Chioma Obinna The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has apprehended producers of the dangerous chemicals that killed three persons in Kano after consuming an adulterated Flavoured drink even as it warned Nigerians against […]

CALABAR- THREE gunmen on Saturday night invaded Ekori police station in Yakkur Local Government Area and went away with an AK47 with some rounds of ammunition.

By Chidi Nkwopara – Owerri Imo State Police Command has confirmed the kidnap of Rev Fr Izu Marcel Onyeocha, by hoodlums. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr Orlando Godson Ikeokwu, confirmed the story in a press statement he signed. Giving the police angle to the story, Ikeokwu recounted: “On April 11, 2021, one Bissong […]

By Chinonso Alozie The Imo state police command on Sunday, confirmed that suspected Fulani herdsmen, were behind the kidnap of a Catholic priest, Reverend Father Marcel Izu Onyeocha, around Ihube in Okigwe local government area of Imo state. The State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO,  Orlando Ikeokwo, disclosed this to newsmen in Owerri. According to […]

By Vincent Ujumadu The former national chairman of the defunct Independent Democrats, ID, Chief Edozie Madu, who has declared to contest the November governorship election in Anambra State on the platform of All Progressives Congress, APC, has urged members of the party to step up the marketing of President Muhammadu Buhari’s achievements in the South […]

By James Ogunnaike Former President Olusegun Obasanjo  on Sunday lamented the annulment of June 12, 1993, Presidential election presumably won by late philanthropist, Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola, blaming the annulment on “bad belle.” Obasanjo said the annulment robbed Egbaland and Ogun State the rare privilege of having three of its prominent sons occupying the number […]

By Obas Esiedesa The truck out of premium motor spirit, petrol, stood at 80.23 million litres as at April, 8, 2021, the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, has reported. The latest PMS truck out data posted on its official website showed that the truck out came from 54 depots across the country. According to […]

ABUJA: The Federal Ministry of Interior has undertaken a review of the performances of its service providers for the year 2020, disclosing how it delivered about 1,487,000 Passport Booklets and received no fewer than 23,552 Marriage Registration Applications.

The Emir of Birnin Gwari in Kaduna state, Malam Zubairu Maigwari, has urged traders not to hike the cost of their commodities as the Ramadan fasting approaches. Maigwari made the call in an interview with journalists on Sunday in Kaduna. “Marketers should reason with the common man and reduce the cost of their goods, especially […]

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has apprehended producers of the dangerous chemicals that killed three persons in Kano after consuming an adulterated Flavoured drink even as it warned Nigerians against the use of chemicals to enhance food and drinks.

The president of the Southern Baptist Convention, America’s largest evangelical denomination, posted a photo on Facebook last week of him getting the COVID-19 vaccine. It drew more than 1,100 comments — many of them voicing admiration for the Rev. J.D. Greear, and many others assailing him. Some of the critics wondered if worshippers would now […]

The Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes, has tasked well meaning Nigerians to emulate a former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha by assisting the government to reduce the number of out-of-school children through his free education programme.

Voting for the first round of Benin’s presidential election began on Sunday at most polling stations across the country. Approximately five million voters are expected to take part in the first round of voting at 15,531 polling stations throughout the country and 11 others in seven foreign countries. According to the new electoral law, the […]

By Aliyu Dangida – Dutse The Minister of Water Resources, Engineer Suleiman Adamu has stated that he has no political ambition come 2023 contrary to rumours in some quartres. The minister made the disclosure while fielding questions from newsmen shortly after he was turbanned as the Galadima of Kazaure and district head of Roni by […]

By Chinonso Alozie Few months after, auxiliary Catholic Bishop of Owerri Archdiocese, Bishop Moses Chikwe, was kidnapped and released by his captors, another catholic priest and a lecturer with Imo state University, IMSU, Reverend Father, Izu Marcell Onyeocha, has been kidnapped by suspected hoodlums. Vanguard gathered in Owerri, that the incident happened around 08:15 pm, […]