China’s Zhang Yufei just submitted a strong bid for the most successful single hour of all time. Most Olympic athletes can merely dream of achieving one golden moment at the Games in their lifetime but Zhang did it twice in 63 minutes on Thursday morning. The 23-year-old blew her competition out of the water with […]

A Kano State Shari’a Court on Friday sentenced a 24-year-old man, Adamu Yusuf, to one-year imprisonment for wandering. The judge, Dr Bello Khalid, sentenced Yusuf after he pleaded guilty and begged for leniency. Khalid, however, gave Yusuf an option to pay a fine of N20,000. Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Insp Abdul Wada,  informed the court […]

A former Aviation Minister and foremost chieftain of the PDP, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has backed the embattled DCP Abba Kyari to come out clean from the allegations of fraud levelled against him by a notorious fraudster, Abbas Ramoni, popularly known as Hushpuppi.

West Examinations Council (WAEC) says late registration of candidates by schools, for its West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), would no longer be allowed, beginning from 2022. The Head of National Office (HNO) of WAEC, Mr Patrick Areghan, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in […]

Enyimba FC of Aba will fight the one-year ban on captain Augustine Oladapo. Oladapo was slammed by CAF for a year after his ‘A’ sample tested positive for banned steroid Prednisolone/Prednisolone. Enyimba said in a statement that they will “consider available options to free their captain. “It is important to state that the player in […]

Yoruba activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, was reportedly arrested by security operatives in Cotonou, Benin Republic, yesterday, for immigration offences.

By Emmanuel Okogba The strategy deployed by Nigeria’s quartet of Ifeanyi Emmanuel Ojeli, Imaobong Nse Uko, Samson Oghenewegba Nathaniel and Patience Okon George in the semi-final first heat of the 4×400 mixed relay backfired as the team finished last. The mixed relay is a combination of two male and two female athletes who cover a […]

The people of Ekeremor constituency 2 and other host communities for the Atala Oil field has urged the new owners of the Atala Oil field, OML 46 to urgently start operation and bring the long awaited dividends to the host communities.

Influencer guru, Princess Jennifer Umeh-Ubaka aka Princessjecoco is a lawyer, fashion designer, hotelier and event planner. Her Instagram Princessjecoco boasts 86k plus followers and she is the brand manager for Big Brother Naija Shine Ya Eye housemate Jackie B. In this interview with Vanguard she tells us how she became a sort after influencer.

By Ike Uchechukwu The Court of Appeal sitting in Calabar, Friday declared Hon. Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe winner of December 5th, 2020, Cross River North senatorial By-election. Jarigbe Agom is a candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP. READ ALSO: US court orders arrest of DCP Abba Kyari as Hushpuppi fingers him The three man Appeal […]

The Ibe-Uyadonwei of Gbaramatu Kingdom, Chief Dennis Brutu Otuaro has felicitated with the immediate past Commissioner for oil and gas in Delta State, Prince Emmanuel Amgbaduba, describing his reappointment as oil and gas Commissioner by the State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa as a welcome development. In a press statement he personally signed and made […]

Ahead of the ward congress of the party scheduled for Saturday, July, 31, Lagos State chapter of All Progressives Congress,APC, has held a statewide stakeholders’ meeting across the 20 Local Governments and 37 Local Council Development Areas, LCDAS.

By Godwin Oritse IN a bid to enhance its Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR,Nigerua’s oil and gas logistics giant, INTELS Nigeria Limited has graduated 34 beneficiaries of the 11th Batch of its flagship women development programme popularly known as the Women Empowerment Programme Scheme Synergy (WEPSS). The graduation of the 11th Batch brings the total number […]

Although it has been long in coming , the exodus of governors from the main opposition party , PDP to the ruling party, APC which has been steering the ship of state at a time that a vast majority of the population is experiencing crushing poverty, unprecedented insecurity of lives and properties as well as the deepest ethnic and religious divisions; the gale of defections by opposition party stalwarts into the ruling party tend to suggest that the fortunes of the APC is growing in leaps and bounds.

The Tokyo Olympics Organising Committee announced on Thursday a record in daily cases in the Olympics bubble, with 24 positives. Pole vaulters Sam Kendricks of the USA who is the world champion, Argentinian Germán Chiaraviglio and one other athlete were reported to have contracted the disease in the vicinity of the Games village. This has […]