Africa is witnessing the fastest surge ever in COVID-19 as cases have risen for eight straight weeks, topping six million on Tuesday as the continent recorded a 43 per cent week-on-week rise in COVID-19 deaths, increased hospital admissions, and shortages in oxygen and intensive care beds

According to him, “It’s illogical to say we have that housing deficit when you have empty houses. No such deficit exists anywhere in the world.”

By Shina Abubakar THE Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi will on Friday 16 July, 2021 inaugurate the Ife Grand Resort & Industrial Park in Ile-Ife. In a statement by his Director of Media and Public Affairs, Comrade Moses Olafare said the resort would serve as the hub for sustainable development, a fountain of employment […]

Chinese coast guard (CCG) vessels since early June have been harassing new Malaysian oil and gas development work off Sarawak, according to a US think tank, Center for Strategic and International Studies. “This is at least the third time since last spring that the CCG has harassed Malaysian energy exploration,” the US think tank said […]

By James Ogunnaike No fewer than 265 persons lost their lives, while 1,654 others sustained various degrees of injuries in 1,176 road accidents between January 2020 and May 2021 in different parts of Ogun State. Investigations by Vanguard revealed that no fewer than 176 persons died, while 990 others sustained various degrees of injuries in […]

A public affairs analyst, Dr Adetokunbo Pearse, has described the act of taking mandates received from one political party to another through defection by elected officeholders as unwholesome. Pearse, a lecturer at the University of Lagos, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lagos He said there […]

Agribusiness now taking a centre stage in the nation’s economy, President Muhammadu Buhari, is set to commission an Integrated Farm Estate completed by the National Agricultural Land Development Authority, NALDA, on Monday, July 19, 2021, in Daura, Katsina State

A 29-year-old man, Dominic Felix, on Thursday, appeared in a Wuse Zone Six Chief Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, for allegedly indulging in criminal activities while squatting. The police charged Felix with two counts of criminal trespass and constituting public nuisance. He, however, denied committing the crime levelled against him. The police prosecutor, Peter Ejike, told the […]

By Henry Umoru, ABUJA THE Conference Committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives on the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, on Thursday, adopted three percent of the actual annual operating expenditure of the preceding financial year in the upstream petroleum operations affecting the host communities for funding of the Host Communities Trust Fund. The […]

Forced into Executive Session By Levinus Nwabughiogu – Abuja House of Representatives witnessed rowdy moments Thursday morning over the passage of three per cent equity shares for the host communities in the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB. At first, it was not clear what the issue was. Many people had thought the issue had to do […]

Ihekweazu, in a chat with Vanguard, said the risk was even higher with the emergence of the Delta variant which is more transmissible…

As many Asian countries battle their worst surge of COVID-19 infections, the slow flow of vaccine doses from around the world is finally picking up speed, giving hope that low inoculation rates can increase and help blunt the effect of the rapidly spreading delta variant. With many vaccine pledges still unfulfilled and rates of infection […]

By Emem Idio THE member representing Ekeremor Constituency 2 and Deputy Minority Leader of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Wilson Dauyegha, has been urged to join the race for the the Bayelsa West Senatorial elections in 2023. Convener, Project Niger Delta ,PND, Princewill Ebebi, made the call during a meeting with wards and clans […]

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), on Thursday, distributed relief materials including food items to 4,000 victims of the recent flood disaster in Jalingo, the Taraba capital. The Jalingo flood affected over 500 households and destroyed several farms. Alhaji Habib Mustapha, Director General of the agency, while distributing the items to victims of the disaster […]

No fewer than 23 million children missed out on basic childhood vaccinations in 2020, a new report released by WHO, and UNICEF, has disclosed