By Ike Ike Uchechukwu, Calabar Residents and people of Ikot Nkebre community on the outskirts of Calabar, located in Calabar Municipality LGA of Cross River have raised the alarm over the frequent harassment of the contractor working at the erosion site in the area by hoodlums, saying that the incident has led to a temporal […]

Against the backdrop of financial infractions allegedly perpetrated by Hadiza Bala-Usman, the suspended Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, Monday, inaugurated an 11-man panel to investigate the activities of the agency from 2016 till date

One of the four suspected kidnappers arrested by the Ondo state security outfit, Amotekun, Usman Garuba has explained that the four persons abducted by them were not their target

The Nigerian Army on Monday dismissed an allegation that it was deploying only commanders of Northern extraction to quell tension in the Southeast.

Some staffers of Oke-Ogun Polytechnic, Saki, Oyo State, on Monday, took to the street to protest alleged casualisation by the institution’s management. The protesting workers, who were armed with placards with various inscriptions, took to major streets in the town as early as 7 am., chanting solidarity songs. The later assembled at the institution’s gate […]

By Olasunkanmi Akoni As part of moves towards eradicating the menace of commercial motorcyclists, popularly called “Okada riders”Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said his administration has concluded plans to review the 2012 Lagos Traffic Law guiding their operations, as well as keeping Lagos safe, secure and peaceful. Sanwo-Olu stated this on Monday, at the […]

The number of newspaper vendors/distributors arrested in Imo state has come to six in number.

Cross-section of abandoned Federal Government Housing Project as of 10th May 2021 as the Federal Ministry of Housing reportedly failed to keep records of houses built in six years and account for the over N250 billion budgetary allocations to the sector following media reports at the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Photos by Abayomi Adeshida   […]

By Olasunkanmi Akoni and Godwin Oritse Motorists and commuters along Oshodi-Apapa Expressway and Apapa environs have continued to languish helplessly in gridlock due to activities of drivers of articulated vehicles who park indiscriminately on the highways amid deplorable state of the road. The Lagos State Special Traffic Enforcement and Management Team set up by the […]

For the second time since I started writing columns for Vanguard in 1987, an organisation in the public and private sectors has proved me wrong, and I am absolutely delighted to admit it. When Polaris Bank was created out of the ashes of Skye Bank in 2018, I gave the new bank no chance for survival.