Financial experts have expressed the need to utilize the Finance Act 2021 to better benefit Nigerians and strengthen the government’s capacity through the instrumentality of taxation in achieving sustainable development.

By Musa Na Annabi Sokoto Sokoto state Government and the African Development Bank (AfDB) are working closely towards establishing ranches and grazing reserves in parts of the state  to improve livestock farming and curtail the preponderance of banditry and sundry crimes in the state. This was what is part of the  meeting between Governor Aminu […]

By  Chris Onuoha It was a fresh beginning for the old boys of the famous Ahmadiyya College, Agege, 1965/66 set as the group held their usual monthly meeting for the fresh year to give thanks to God and deliberate on the year ahead. The event held at Eko Club Surulere last weekend heralded the New […]

By Joyce Daniels WHILE we have abundant energy resources in crude oil and gas, I believe the energy that will power Nigeria into a prosperous future will come from her teeming, vibrant youths. However, despite its enterprise, energy and dynamism, this generation of the Nigerian youths may not see the change it wants without the […]

By Etim Etim This March marks twenty years since two young Nigerian bankers – Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede and Herbert Wigwe bought a small, nondescript bank and turned it into one of the biggest lenders in the country with subsidiaries across Africa and Asia. It was on March 22, 2002, that the two, both aged 37, walked […]

By Noah Dallaji THE challenge of development in Africa really calls for an urgent action towards breaking from the recurring dilemma we find ourselves. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a serious effect on economies, we know, but the situation in critical terms predates the pandemic. It is becoming more and more expedient to take necessary […]

By Thomas Uzah We all know, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) is the most formidable, outstanding and symbolic humanitarian face of the nation’s public expression of its affections as a father-figure, anytime its citizens are in sudden distressful, traumatic and distraught conditions. In the last few years, the ever-maddening wave of disasters’ assailing Nigeria […]

By Philip Agbese There is a silent revolution ongoing at the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), the agency of government tasked with the responsibility of building capacities and capabilities in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry through the development of human abilities, institutional capacity development as well as the promotion of research and acquisition of relevant […]

US-based Nigerian hip hop, Afrobeats artiste, song-writer, entertainer, industrialist and Founder/CEO Movement Entertainment and Royal Link Limited, known as NeyoOsha, has disrupted the global music scene with his latest single “Shine Shine Bobo” which is currently topping billboard charts and rocking airwaves across the globe. The sensational singer who already has several singles under his […]

By Marie-Therese Nanlong Jos – Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong has called on Nigerians to honour the courage of the fallen heroes by living in peace with one another and exposing criminally minded people. The Governor who paid tribute to Nigerian fallen heroes who made sacrifices for the unity, peace, and stability of Nigeria, however, […]

By Charly Agwam – Bauchi  The Bauchi Command of the Nigeria police disclosed the arrest of an alleged 24-year-old rapist who defiled his 3-year-old daughter in Kirfi local government area of Bauchi State.  The police spokesman, SP Ahmed Wakil, in a statement shared with Vanguard on Saturday said that the suspect, Ali Lawan was arrested after […]

By Ndahi Marama – Maiduguri An unspecified number of Boko Haram terrorists suspected to be ISWAP group have been killed by troops of ‘Operation Hadin Kai’ in an attempt to infiltrate Biu Local government area of Borno state on Saturday.  Biu is south and about 180km drive along the easiest Maiduguri -Damboa-Biu road which was […]

By Peter Okutu – Abakaliki The leader of Ebonyi State House of Assembly, Hon. Victor Chukwu, Saturday, lambasted those saying that Governor David Umahi lacked the temperament to be the next President of Nigeria. The lawmaker who represents Ezza North/West State Constituency, in the House of Assembly, said Governor Umahi, had before joining politics lived […]

By Shina Abubakar Governor Adegboyega Oyetola of Osun State, on Saturday, assured that his administration will continue to sustain the system of participatory, inclusive and people-centred governance in the state. Oyetola, who stated that participatory and inclusive governance remains the best path towards the socioeconomic and political development of every given polity, saying that such […]

By Ndahi Marama, Maiduguri An unspecified number of Boko Haram terrorists suspected to be ISWAP group have been killed by troops of ‘Operation Hadin Kai’ in an attempt to infiltrate Biu Local government area of Borno state on Saturday. The troops also destroyed three of the gun truck vehicles after recovering arms and ammunition from […]