StarTimes, Actors Guild of Nigeria collaborate on content production
As part of StarTimes commitment to grow the local film industry, StarTimes is partnering with the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) on content production, with a view to tapping into the vast deposit of original African stories yet untold.
FIFA U17 WWC India 2022: CAF turns down NFF’s request to host Congo in MKO Stadium
The Confederation of African Football CAF has turned down Nigeria’s request to host the African qualifiers for the FIFA U17 WWC India 2022 match between Nigeria and Congo DR at the Moshood Abiola Stadium, Abuja. The NFF had scheduled the Nigeria vs Ghana World Cup playoff about the same period and CAF frowns at this, […]
DELTA GUBER: Otuaro is reliable, I can vouch for him – Funkekeme
By Nnamdi Ojiego As the race for the position of the next governor of Delta State gathers steam, the incumbent Deputy Governor, Decean Kingsley Otuaro, has been described as a reliable person who always put the interest of others first. Speaking when KBO Political Vanguard, a volunteer group rallying support for the actualisation of governorship […]
Nigeria’s disunity and albatross of national integration
By Bobson Gbinije I look forward to the day, not in the distant future, when Ijaw would be President of our Republic and a Berom his running mate or vice versa. Hence, in our politics of today or tomorrow, there would be neither North nor South, neither Igbo, Yoruba nor Hausa —Chief Obafemi Awolowo (House […]
Implementing LASG’s White Paper on collapsed Ikoyi high-rise building
REVERBERATIONS of shock, anger, disbelief and anguish rippled through the public when a 21-storey building in Ikoyi collapsed on November 1, 2021, claiming 47 lives. In reaction, the Lagos State Government set up the Toyin Ayinde-led committee to probe the collapse, many Nigerians thought that the last had been heard of the issue since probe […]
Gunmen kill NDLEA operative close to military checkpoint in Ebonyi
An operative of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has been reportedly killed by gunmen, close to a military checkpoint in the Ebonyi State.
AWCON 2022 Qualifier: Super Falcons storm Abidjan
Ahead of the second leg of the 2022 African Women Cup of Nations qualifier against Ivory Coast, Nigeria’s Super Falcons have landed in Abidjan venue of the game. The Nigeria side won the first leg 2-0 at the Moshood Abiola Stadium courtesy of brace from Ifeoma Onumonu and are in the driving seat. ALSO READ: […]
I’m shocked getting Vanguard award — Obaseki
By Ozioruva Aliu, BENIN CITY Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, weekend, said he was shocked at his selection by the board of editors of Vanguard newspapers as the governor of the year 2021. Obaseki said this when a team of editors led by the Deputy Editor, Mr Adekunle Adekoya, visited his office to officially […]
Woman accuses policeman, LASTMA officials of seizure of phone for 2 years
By Anita Ahmed Chief Executive Officer, Ronade Travels and Tours, Mrs Adeniyi Aderonke, weekend, accused a policeman and officials of Lagos State Traffic Management, LASTMA, of assaulting her and forcefully collecting her mobile phone from her for two years, in Ikotun area of Lagos. She lamented that efforts to retrieve her phone met a brick […]
Tear up the 2022 Budget, start praying
By Dele Sobowale “As a people normally gets the government it deserves, so a society normally receives the punishment it asks for.” — Robert Audrey, in Social Contract All at once, we seem to be suffering from a plague of sorts in Nigeria. One is destroying our cars and pockets with adulterated fuel. The other, […]
Petrol tank installer dies while working in Ilorin
By Demola Akinyemi A 29-year-old tank installer/maintainer simply identified as Ahmed was recovered dead inside a petrol tank at a popular filling station in Ilorin, Kwara State capital. Vanguard reliably gathered that the incident occurred Saturday at about 7.30pm at Bovas Filling Station opposite Adisco Ajase-Ipo Road, Ilorin. The victim, according to sources, came from […]
