By Adeola Badru Chairman of the Senate Committee on Local Content, Senator Teslim Kolawole Folarin has said that the ongoing membership revalidation and registration exercise of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is the boost required to strengthen the party and prepare it fully for total victory in the general elections of 2023 in Oyo State. Speaking […]

By Chinonso Alozie, Owerri Former governor of Imo state and Senator representing, Imo West Senatorial district, Rochas Okorocha, has said that his own Eastern Palm University, can’t be taken over by Imo state government, because it was established under the Public Private Partnership, agreement between Imo government and Rochas Foundation, when he was the governor […]

By Adeola Badru A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Oyo State, Alhaji Bisi Olopoeyan, has advised those political appointees endorsing Governor Seyi Makinde for second term to be conscious of their desperation in protecting their jobs with the governor, as politics and winning governorship election in any state is beyond the gathering […]

By Bose Adelaja Four people were on Sunday, burnt to death while 10 others escaped in an accident in Ogun State after a 14-passenger bus was engulfed by fire. The incident occurred at about 11.50am, at Atoyo inbound Ogbere, along Ijebu Ode/Benin Expressway. According to eye witnesses’ account, a tanker laden with Black Oil was […]

Simon Ifeanyi Ezeh This bogus concept states that when Adam and Eve sinned in the garden as they ate the forbidden fruit, they died spiritually (got separated from God) and that this death was automatically passed on to all men of all races so that whenever a child is born, he is born a sinner. […]

Dr Matshidiso Moeti, World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, has expressed concern over the report of four suspected Ebola deaths in Guinea. Moeti, on her personal twitter account @MoetiTshidi on Sunday, was reacting to the report by the Guinea’s Ministry of Health on the resurgence of Ebola in the country. The Guinea’s Health […]

The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) has decried the high vandalism of electrical installations and wiring in the South-East. The Head, Communications of EEDC, Mr Emeka Ezeh, said this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Enugu. Ezeh noted that the company had launched its whistle-blowing lines to check the […]

.To meet Wednesday on govt’s offers  By Adesina Wahab The industrial action embarked upon by members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions  NASU, will not be called off on Monday as being speculated in some quarters.  Speaking with Vanguard yesterday, the National […]

Rescuers pulled out nine more bodies from the site of a flash flood in a Himalayan region of northern India on Sunday, a week after the disaster struck. This brings the death toll to 50 with more than 150 people still missing, officials said. The flash flood in Uttarakhand State, triggered by what scientists said […]

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Sunday paid a condolence visit to the family of the first civilian governor of the state, the late Alhaji Lateef Jakande. Jakande, popularly called Baba Kekere, died on Feb. 11 at the age of 91. Speaking during the condolence visit at the former governor’s residence in the Ilupeju […]