Breaking The Bias: How Paxful is promoting economic prosperity of women
By Moses Nosike Financial equality is a challenge that women continue to face all around the world. According to the World Bank’s report, about 2.4 billion women of working age do not have equal economic opportunity and 178 countries maintain legal barriers that prevent their full economic participation. In that same report, women face some form […]
2023: Govs bent on producing Buhari’s successor
By Dirisu Yakubu ABUJA- Ahead of the Presidential primaries of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP governors of the 36 states are desirous of producing the President in the 2023 poll, Sunday Vanguard gathered at the weekend. The decision of the governors was reportedly agreed upon at the […]
NDDC pleads more time for refund of Eastern Bypass road construction counterpart fund to Rivers govt
By Egufe Yafugborhi, Port Harcourt The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has assured the Rivers State Government that it would redeem her 50 per cent financial obligation to the Eastern Bypass dual carriage road project commissioned in Port Harcourt on Saturday. Interim Administrator of NDDC, Efiong Akwa, said at the inauguration of the road where […]
Benue 2023: God hasn’t revealed my successor to me ― Ortom
By Peter Duru, Makurdi Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state weekend said God has not revealed his successor to him assuring that he has no preferred candidate in the coming general elections and has also not anointed anyone as his successor. The Governor made this known while addressing members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, […]
2023: Youths critical to PDP’s victory- Saraki
By Dirisu Yakubu ABUJA- Immediate past Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki has said the victory of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2023 general election lies squarely on the shoulders of youthful eligible Nigerians expected to cast their ballots at the polls. He stated this yesterday in Abuja while addressing zonal and states’ youth […]
ASUU holds NEC meeting to decide on strike
By Adesina Wahab The National Executive Council, NEC, of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, will hold its meeting on Sunday in Abuja to decide the next line of action as its four-week warning strike comes to an end on Monday. Speaking in a chat with Sunday Vanguard on Saturday, the National President, Prof. […]
Ebonyi: Return PDP mandate, Wike tells Umahi
By Egufe Yafugborhi, Port Harcourt Governor Nyesom Wike on Saturday charged embattled Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, to return the mandate he got on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Wike at the inauguration of the Eastern Bypass Road project in Port Harcourt, said it was unfortunate that instead of appealing judgment of […]
APC Convention: CPC group backs Almakura for chairmanship
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru AHEAD of the All Progressives Congress, APC, national convention slated for March 26, former members of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, have said that it is the turn of the former party to produce the national chairman of the APC. Recall that CPC was one of the legacy parties that […]
2023: South-South gives restructuring as condition for votes
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru As Nigerians begin the count down for the 2023 general elections, the South-South geopolitical zone has vowed not to fund any political groups that are not willing to implement the restructuring. Already the South-South has drawn what it called restructuring priorities for a better Nigeria. In a statement issued at the weekend, […]
Accident claims 12 on Ilorin-Ogbomoso road
Twelve people are feared dead in a road accident which occurred on Ilorin-Ogbomoso Road on Saturday. Mr Jonathan Owoade, Kwara Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, gave the figure to newsmen in Ilorin. Owoade said that the accident occured at Ote area and involved a white Toyota Hummer bus without a registration number […]
2023: Benue South stakeholders lead peaceful match in Makurdi, demand power shift
By Peter Duru, Makurdi The people of Benue South Senatorial District, weekend, stage a peaceful march in Makurdi the state capital demanding the ceding of the governorship position to zone for the first time in 2023. Organized by the Benue Rebirth Movement, BRM, led by former Chief of Defence Intelligence, AVM Monday Morgan (retd) and […]
