BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has been urged  to  inaugurate a substantive board for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC and also appoint a substantive Coordinator for the Presidential amnesty office. Deputy Leader of Egbesu Brotherhood, Priest Ellington made the appeal in Warri, Delta state, adding that President Buhari should investigate allegations linking  the […]

By Emmanuel Aziken How Mesut Ozil despite his past fantastic contributions to the Arsenal side was frozen out of the team in 2020/21 is still the subject of much debate. Even at its nadir a few months back when Arsenal were about romancing the relegation waters, Ozil was still kept out of the side. The […]

The European Union’s top foreign affairs official threw his weight behind Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine on Friday after it was found to have a 91.6-per-cent efficacy rate in an internationally recognized study. During a visit to Moscow, Josep Borrell congratulated Russia on the achievement and said he hoped the European Medicines Agency (EMA) would approve […]

KOGI state government has refuted the reports that the government secondary School Iluke Bunu was burnt by Fulani herdsmen, stressing that on the contrary, the school got burnt as a result of indiscriminate bush burning.

The Kano State government says it has arrested 500 beggars for allegedly violating the law that bans street begging in the state. The State’s Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Dr Zahra’u Muhammad-Umar, made the disclosure while repatriating the beggars in Kano on Friday. Muhammad-Umar said that the beggars were arrested in Kano metropolis […]

A Consultant Gynaecologist, Dr Serah Awoyemi, has advised pregnant women to undergo a dental examination to prevent mother-to-child transmission of bacteria and infections during pregnancy.

By Omeiza Ajayi Ahead of the APC membership registration and revalidation which starts on Tuesday, February 9, political gladiators in the nation’s ruling party are squaring up to again test their relevance. From Kwara to Lagos, Zamfara to Enugu or Rivers, political actors are reportedly scheming to outdo their rivals and take control of the party […]

A Human Rights Activist/Constitutional Lawyer, Dr. Tunji Abayomi has advised President Muhammadu Buhari and the leadership of the National Assembly to restore the country’s pride, founded by its forefathers, stating that, if urgent steps are not taken by Mr. President, the country will finally collapse like packs of cards and that could be disastrous. The Activist […]

Emeka Nwokocha of dudublack leads team of investors in multi million Naira movie project. Sources have recently gathered that the young businessman Emeka Nwokocha and a few other investors are looking into the movie business in the first quarter of 2020 but were delayed due to the lockdown caused by the pandemic. He is said to […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has warned commercial banks and other financial institutions to desist from dealing in cryptocurrencies as it is illegal. The apex bank stated this on Friday in a statement on its official website by Mr Bello Hassan, Director of Banking Supervision and Mr Musa Jimoh, Director of Payments System Management. […]

Russia expelled three EU diplomats – from Germany, Poland and Sweden – for their alleged participation in rallies supporting jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday, even as the EU’s top envoy visited Moscow. The Russian opposition figure’s sentencing by a Moscow court to three-and-a-half years in a penal camp for […]

By Yinka Kolawole The United States has finally endorsed the candidacy of Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the post of Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) following the withdrawal of South Korea’s Trade Minister Yoo Myung-hee from the race. A statement from the Office of the United States Trade Representative seen by Vanguard stated: […]

When you listen to any of the songs from fast-rising artiste Akuchay, the underlying messages are awakening. Her conscious music, whether up-tempo or mellow, will make you dance and sing-along, but most importantly, they are inspiring.

A final year female student of Delta State Polytechnic, Ozoro, another lady and a commercial motorcyclist, died in an accident in Ibusa axis along the Ughelli/Asaba highway.

Libyan delegates at UN-led talks outside Geneva on Friday made the surprise choice of Abdul Hamid Dbeibah as prime minister of a transitional unity government to take the war-ravaged country through to elections in December. Dbeibah was chosen along with a three-member presidency council to head a unity administration and steer the North African state […]