Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, the Director General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says the agency has not approved any COVID-19 vaccines. She made this known in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja. She stated that the agency had not received any application from vaccine manufacturers “and therefore, no vaccine had been […]

Gives loan to widows, families of slain heroes Dayo Johnson – Akure The Chairman of the South West Governors Forum, Rotimi Akeredolu has pleaded with the Nigerian Armed forces and other security agencies in the region to collaborate with the State Security Network known as Amotekun Corps. Akeredolu who insisted that the security outfit has […]

Fourteen persons, including five children on Thursday, lost their lives in a motor accident which occurred on Anyingba -Ajaokuta road in Kogi State.

By Emmanuel Okogba Pigeons released as a tradition in commemoration of Armed Forces Remembrance Day by President Muhammadu Buhari refused to fly, causing mixed reactions of social media. President Buhari was seen trying on multiple occasions to release the birds but they only ended up sitting on the cage, managing to fly away only when […]

By Peter Duru – Makurdi Benue State Government has commenced the distribution of 15,000 plastic chairs and tables to Basic schools in the state valued at over N433.5million. The Executive Chairman of Benue State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, Comrade Utse Joseph who flagged off the distribution at the Ministry of Energy, Science and Technology […]

James Ogunnaike – Abeokuta Operatives of the Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Police have recovered a sum of N2,722,750 and hard drugs worth several millions of Naira after raiding a suspected drug cartel in Lafenwa area of Abeokuta, the state capital. State Commissioner of Police, Edward Ajogun, disclosed this while displaying the exhibits at […]

James Ogunnaike Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has called on Nigerians to shun calls for division, insurgency, banditry, and all inter-ethnic, religious, and politically motivated wranglings capable of disintegrating the country. He said they should embrace team-spirit, brotherliness, and compassion for fellow beings. The governor made this call on Friday, at the 2021 Armed […]

By Emma Una – Calabar The Cross River State government has achieved $20.4 million dollars grant from the World Bank’s States Fiscal Transparency, Accountability and Sustainability, SFTAS, programme. The Commissioner for Finance, Mr Asuquo Ekpenyong Jnr told Vanguard in his office on Friday that the money would be plowed into the implementation of the state’s […]

Concerned Abia Citizens, CAC, Friday advised the State Commissioner for Trade and Investment, Cosmos Ndukwe, to stop alleged anti-Party activities in the state, nothing that he has a right to associate with anyone but should be guided by the principles of his party. Disclosing this in a statement signed by Prof. Uche Chinonso, President, Dr. […]

The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, has released postings for prospective 2020 Batch B Stream II Corp Members. The disclosure which was done on Friday by Director-General of NYSC, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim during a sensitisation webinar further urged those concerned to check the NYSC site to know the states they are deployed to. “I […]

By Emma Una THE Cross River State government will receive a $20.4 million grant from the World Bank’s States Fiscal Transparency, Accountability and Sustainability, SFTAS, programme. The Commissioner for Finance, Mr Asuquo Ekpenyong Jnr told Vanguard in his office on Friday that the money would be ploughed into the implementation of the state’s 2021 budget […]

By Fortune Eromosele Following the large number of people visiting the National Identify Management Commission offices in Lagos and Abuja, cum its inability to accommodate them, the Commission has released a list of 50 National Identification Number enrolment centres in both cities. The list of the centres was published on Thursday, ahead of the deadline […]

The Federal Government through the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) has endorsed the “Handbook of Skill Acquisition Training and Empowerment Programmes” as a national resource material on entrepreneurship, skill acquisition programmes, micro, small and medium scale enterprises development recommending same for institutions across the country.

By Emmanuel Elebeke The consumer price index, (CPI) which measures inflation increased by 15.75 per cent (year-on-year) in December 2020. In its monthly report released on Friday, the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS said the increase was 0.86 per cent points higher than the rate recorded in November 2020 (14.89) per cent. It also said […]

Food availability, sufficiency, and affordability will continue to be a mirage as long as banditry and attacks on farmers continue, the Nigerian Institute of Food Science and Technology has declared. Its chairman, Mr Sunday Bamgbose, told Newsmen on Friday in Lagos that no nation could boast of sufficiency if it did not have the capacity […]