By Yinka Kolawole The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) said that the suspension of electricity tariff increase as announced by the federal government yesterday is only a temporary relief and called for wide consultations that will lead to lasting solution. Director General, MAN, Segun Ajayi-Kadir, stated this in a statement made available to Vanguard yesterday. […]

…allegations against him unfounded, baseless By Peter Duru, Makurdi Former Speaker of Benue State House of Assembly and Chairman of Benue Concerned Citizens for Development, BCCD, Dr. Stephen Tsav, has said the Minister for Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, George Akume bears no grudge against Senator Gabriel Suswam, Governor Samuel Ortom and the Tor Tiv […]

U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler said he supports bringing impeachment charges against President Donald Trump immediately and removing him from office. “I am once again urging that the President be impeached and removed from office,’’ Nadler said on Thursday. “We have a limited period of time in which to act. The nation cannot […]

A 31-year-old former bank staff, Kazeem Adeleye, on Friday appeared in Chief Magistrates’ Court in Tinubu, Lagos, for alleged N28.3million fraud. The police charged Adeleye, whose address was not given with three counts of conspiracy, fraud and theft. The prosecution counsel, ASP Ben Ekundayo, told the court that the defendant committed the offence with some […]

FOLLOWING the December 26, 2020 killing of the monarch of Oruku town, Nkanu East Council, Enugu State, Igwe Emmanuel Mba, allegedly by a police man, and subsequent crisis that engulfed the community, Enugu State government has set up a Judicial Commission of Inquiry to unravel the remote and immediate causes of the crisis.

By Nwafor Sunday U.S President Donald Trump, is back on Twitter, hours after he was suspended. Trump was banned on Twitter and Facebook after he was alleged to have instigated Capitol Hill riot that led to the death of a woman and destruction of properties in Washington. On Wednesday a good number of Trump-Supporters stormed […]

The White House has condemned the violent unrest that took place on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. It called for the prosecution of those individuals who broke the law, Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said. McEnany said this in a news conference on Thursday in Washington. “We condemn it – the President and this administration – in […]

The Lagos State Government has donated food items and other consumables to the Lagos Zonal Command of the  National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons NAPTIP  and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA, to complement the agencies efforts at caring for victims of human trafficking and drug abuse and offenders in their custody.

By Nwafor Sunday Michelle Obama, wife of former U.S president, Barack Obama, has said that those who stormed Capitol Hill in Washington, to disrupt the certification process of Joe Biden’s victory, did so to fulfill the wishes of an infantile and unpatriotic president. She was reacting to reports alleging the death of an unidentified woman, […]

By Emmanuel Elebeke The staff of the National Identity Management Commission, NIMC have embarked on strike action over COVID-19 scare and poor working condition. The strike action led to locking thousands of applicants outside the various enrolment centres. A strike notice signed by the President of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, NIMC […]

By Aliyu Dangida JIGAWA local government service commission has sponsored the study of 664 staff at the cost of N83.97million to enable them to acquire additional qualifications in various institutions. Chairman of the commission, DIG Uba Bala (retd) who stated this while briefing newsmen on achievements recorded by his commission in 2020, said the benefitting staff […]

…Says no ransom was paid to the kidnappers Gov. Aminu Masari of Katsina State on Friday said that security forces have rescued 103 kidnapped victims. Masari made this known while addressing some of the rescued victims at the Government House, Katsina. “This is in continuation of the exercise that started with the recovery of the 344 […]

Gail Halvorsen, the U.S. pilot who was known and loved by German children in the late 1940s as the Candy Bomber, has mostly recovered from the coronavirus, his daughter said. Halvorsen, who lives in the western state of Utah and turned 100 years old earlier this year, has a cough but is otherwise doing “very […]

The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Ambassador Mary Beth Leonard, has condemned the storming of the US Capitol by pro-Trump protesters who were of the notion that the presidential election was rigged. The development at the US Capitol drew wide criticism from different regions across the world, especially strong critics of the nation’s democratic system. […]

The efficacy of the Pfizer Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine (official name BNT162b2) might sustain against the newly-detected mutant strains from the United Kingdom (UK) and South Africa, a group of U.S. scientists said in a research paper.The paper was published on the BioRxiv website for biology research on Thursday. The research was conducted by scientists from […]