By Charly Agwam – Bauchi  Bauchi state government has instituted legal action in the Bauchi State High Court against Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara and 28 others over the killing and destruction of properties that followed the botched celebration of Baba Peter Gonto 21st anniversary in Tafawa Balewa and Bogoro local government areas of Bauchi state.  […]

By Ebun Sessou A House of Representatives aspirant in Kosofe Constituency II, Lagos State, Oluwagbenga Tambi has urged Nigerian youths to keep faith and hope alive in better Nigeria by participating actively in the forth coming 2023 general polls. Tambi gave the advice in his New Year message to the youths and residents of the […]

Dear Bunmi, A bosom friend gave me a number of a lady he met when he went to audit her company’s account in a nearby state. He thought we would be good together and, to my delight, there was an instant spark between us as we chatted. After weeks of chatting on phone, she agreed to […]

By Dirisu Yakubu For more than a year now, speculations of former President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s possible defection to the All Progressives Congress, APC, have not waned, as pundits and newsmen alike continue to link the zoologist-turn politician with yet another crack at the Presidential Villa. Jonathan became governor of Bayelsa state in 2005 following […]

A socio-political group, Osun Shall Rise Again, OSRA, has berated a former Osun Governor and Interior Minister, Rauf Aregbesola, for accusing Governor Adegboyega Oyetola of betraying the All Progressives Congress, APC, just because he reviewed some of the policies that made the party almost lost the Governorship election in 2018.

In line with the commitment of Habeeb Okunola Foundation to fostering enrolment in tertiary education and building future leaders, the organisation flagged off its 2022 Tertiary Scholarship Scheme for 500 undergraduate and postgraduate students drawn from public tertiary institutions across the six geopolitical zones of the country. Speaking during the flag-off ceremony held in Lagos, […]

By Providence Adeyinka The Congregation of Registered Freight Forwarding Practitioners of Nigeria, CREFFPON has said that the e- truck call up system requires fine tuning less than one year in operation. They are also calling for reduction in the cost of doing business in the Nigerian ports in 2022. READ ALSO:Age is telling on me, Buhari […]

By Godfrey Bivbere A maritime practitioner,Olusegun Ologbese, has commended the Acting Managing Director on the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Mohammed Bello-Koko, for his achievements within a short time he was appointed. Ologbese said his actions are replica of one of the best former chief executive of the NPA, Alhaji Wali Ahmed, who turned around the […]

By Godfrey Bivbere Stakeholders in the maritime industry have blamed the inability of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, to tackle piracy in the Gulf of Guinuea, GoG, on the age-long Francophone – Anglophone dichotomy. The stakeholders were responding to the recent spike in piracy in the GoG. They are of the opinion that the […]

By Charly Agwam – Bauchi  Bauchi state government has instituted a legal action in the Bauchi State High Court against Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara and 28 others over the killing and destruction of properties that followed the botched celebration of Baba Peter Gonto 21st anniversary in Tafawa Balewa and Bogoro local government areas of Bauchi […]

As Customs clarifies positions By Providence Adeyinka The Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents, ANLCA, has listed some of the operational challenges encountered in processing delivery of consignments from the nation’s ports. Speaking at a stakeholder’s engagement meeting, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of ANLCA, Alhaji Taiwo Mustapha, said that multiple alerts on cargoes causes […]

“lt has become a matter of urgency to provide other logistics such as vehicles to facilitate the patrol of the area by security personnel to ward off further invasion by the bandits.”

The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, has said that capital importation rose sharply, quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) by 97 percent to $1.73 billion in the third quarter of last year (Q3’21) from $875.62 million in the previous quarter, Q2’21.

By Adekunle Adekoya Happy New Year! The last issue of this column in Vanguard of Friday 31-12-2021, on used tyres, ended with the first three words that opened the first edition of this column this year. It is deliberate, apart from the fact that these three words have been standard greeting as we see each other for […]

The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in 2019 elections, Mr Peter Obi, has lamented the continuous hike in food prices, saying if such trend is left unabated, more Nigerians could be further pushed into poverty.