“If anything, Chief Obasanjo’s political party today is the party of Nigerians facing insecurity, unemployment, hunger, poverty, and various other challenging issues.”

By Bashir Bello Kano State House of Assembly has suspended the chairman, Kano State Public Complaint and Anti-Corruption Commission, Muhyi Magaji Rimingado for rejecting an accountant sent to its agency by the office of the Accountant-General of the state. The Speaker, Hamisu Chidari announced the suspension at the Assembly’s plenary session on Monday. The suspension […]

Heavy shooting at Balogun International market, Alaba, Ojo, Lagos as policemen from Area E, Festac, invade market shooting indiscriminately. The Chief Security Officer of the market who spoke with Vanguard while running away from the scene said they invaded the market to foist an illegal leadership over their association. Details later…

By Emma Amaize SENATOR Matthew Urhoghide, representing Edo South senatorial district in the Senate, has said some people, out of ignorance or mischief, were propagating wrong information different from the facts and provisions of the newly-passed Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, by the National Assembly. Urhoghide, who expressed surprise at the misinformation, stated the PIB did […]

By Olasunkanmi Akoni Amid tight security by men of the Nigeria Police, Department of State Service, DSS, some of the Nigeria’s governors, under the umbrella of Southern Governors Forum, have started arriving Lagos House, Ikeja, Lagos, on Monday, venue of a scheduled meeting to deliberate on state of the nation. Top on the agenda of […]

A 28-year-old casual staff, Taiwo Shodipe, on Monday appeared in a Magistrates’ Court in Ota, Ogun for allegedly stealing 12 packs of dry gin, worth N4,800 belonging to the Nigeria Distillery Limited. The police charged Shodipe, who address was not provided with theft. The prosecution counsel, Insp E.O. Adaraloye,told the court that the defendant committed […]

By Ike Uchechukwu About 50 independent monitors weekend received engagement letters and tablets to enable them properly check the activities of beneficiaries of federal government’s poverty reduction programme under the social investment scheme in Cross River. Speaking in Calabar during the distribution of engagement letters and tablets to 49 persons that will monitor the programme […]

Diaspora Reintegration,  Diaspora Data Mapping and Capacity Building are some major issues put on the table by the Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa at an interactive Session with the Switzerland Ambassador to Nigeria Amb. Georg Steiner in Abuja. The NiDCOM Boss explained that with the establishment of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission […]

A 28-year-old casual staff, Taiwo Shodipe, on Monday appeared in a Magistrates’ Court in Ota, Ogun for allegedly stealing 12 packs of dry gin, worth N4,800 belonging to the Nigeria Distillery Limited. The police charged Shodipe, who address was not provided with theft. The prosecution counsel, Insp E.O. Adaraloye, told the court that the defendant […]

Oil prices have hardly moved at the start of the week, as a cautious market awaits stalling talks between the major oil-producing nations on future production policy. A barrel (159 litres) of North Sea Brent cost 76.18 dollars on Monday morning, about the same as on Friday. The price of a barrel of the U.S. […]

No fewer than 136 students in a high school have been infected with the COVID-19 Delta variant, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed. During the latest national COVID-19 update, 136 out of 550 samples taken among students in Achimota School came out positive, said Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, Director-General of the GHS. Aboagye said that three […]

South Africa’s ex-president Jacob Zuma, on Sunday, lashed out at the judges who gave him a 15-month jail term for absconding from a corruption inquiry. Zuma compared them to the white minority apartheid rulers he once fought. He spoke at his home in Nklandla, in a rural part of Kwazulu Natal province, where hundreds of […]

The 304-page “50 TOP ROLE MODELS (MEMOIRS)” authored by Dada Olanipekun, Femi Olupe and Efosa Taiwo and published by Prestige Newspaper, beams its research torch on another 50 select exemplary citizens of Ogun State with outstanding charisma from diverse fields of human endeavors.

Bandits, Monday morning, went haywire, abducting students of Bethel Baptist School in Kaduna; Peter Jediel, the Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress in Taraba, even as news emerged that Boko Haram had taken hostage Rev. Fr. Elijah Juma Wada of the Catholic Diocese of Maiduguri since June 30.

June is the month of Patriots and Veterans in Korea; a period set aside by the country to honour heroes who dedicated their lives to the service of the nation. The month was chosen by the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs in Korea to honour the noble sacrifices made by Korea’s heroes of the past