By Dayo Johnson, Akure Applicants,16,000, have applied for the 350 vacant slots in the Ondo State security outfit, codenamed Amotekun. Already, 900 of them have been shortlisted.  The security commander, Chief Àdetunji Adeleye said this in Akure over the weekend. Adeleye said that the state governor ordered the recruitment, Rotimi Akeredolu to  strengthen and boost its […]

By Peter Duru, Makurdi The Benue Youths Forum, BYF, has raised concern that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, office in Benue state is allegedly shielding and backing the illegality perpetrated by the Benue State All Progressives Congress, APC, in the conduct of its gubernatorial and other primaries. The President of the BYF, Terrence Kuanum […]

The Court of Appeal Sitting in Gombe on Friday sentenced Ma’aji Shettima Arfo, the former General Manager of Maiduguri Flour Mills to 7 years imprisonment for allegedly stealing millions of Naira belonging to the Borno State Government and the Flour mills of Nigeria while he was the General manager of limited liability company.

The House of Representatives hopeful for Oshodi-Isolo Federal Constituency II, under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), (Hon) Prince Laja Adeoye, has empowered some youths in the Constituency, and asked other youths to shun social vices and disallow politicians from turning them into miscreants or political thugs.  He advised the youths that a lot of  politicians […]

The Federal Government says many of the1,130 looted Benin Bronzes  to be repatriated to Nigeria from Germany got to German public institutions via trade and donations The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said this on Friday in Berlin during the signing of a historic joint declaration between Nigeria and Germany. The signing of […]

By Ephraim Oseji Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain and former Delta State gubernatorial aspirant, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has said the party is not crisis. Onuesoke, who dismissed claims of disunity in the party during his visit to PDP Headquarters, Abuja, said: ”The PDP family is becoming more united than as it was. It is working […]

By Onochie Anibeze In 2006, veteran sports administrator, Chief Jonathan Ogufere ‘stormed’ our office at Kirikiri Canal to interact with the Vanguard family and talk about his book. We all looked forward to it but circumstances caused a long  delay that we never heard from him again. Chief Ogufere turned 90 on June 23, 2022 […]

Shina Abubakar, Osogbo Osun State Governor, Mr Adegboyega Oyetola has disclosed that his monumental achievement will get him re-elected during the July 16 governorship election and will handover to another All Progressives Congress, APC elected governor in 2026. Addressing supporters in Ila-Orangun during campaign tour of Ila and Ifedayo local government areas of the state […]

Police rescue 77 people over suspected abduction in Ondo Church

RUMUODOGO Community II in Emohua Local Government Area can pass as one of the miserable communities in Rivers State in terms of basic amenities of life, but when some informers revealed that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has never carried out electoral duty in the territory because of inability of its officials to access the community, it sounded too real to be true in the 21st Century. 

By Peter Duru, Makurdi  A Makurdi Federal High Court, presided over by Justice Abdu Dogo has ordered that court processes be served on the wife of the Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Mrs. Regina Akume and others in a suit seeking to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from accepting names of […]

. …Records 12.5% rise in sales BIC, a leading brand in stationery, lighters, and shavers, has said that it would increase its social investment in the Nigeria through education, capacity building, and community initiatives. Speaking during a media parley in Lagos, General Manager at BIC Nigeria, Guillaume Groues, said: “We are delighted to be present […]

By Marie-Therese Nanlong, Jos Former Governor of Plateau State, Senator Jonah Jang has reiterated the need for unity among members of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP if the Party hopes to make tangible impacts in the 2023 general elections. Jang who alluded to disunity in the Party, insisted the party cannot afford to go into […]

The World Health Organisation, WHO, has stressed needs to strengthen genomic surveillance in Nigeria for effective management of pandemic

By Clifford Ndujihe, Politics Editor SINCE the political parties concluded their presidential primaries, the polity has been astir as millions of people across the country, especially youths, scramble to get registered as voters. As of Monday June 27, 2022, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has registered 14,137,024 youths (aged 18-34); 6,280,190 middle-aged people (aged […]