With tears dripping down his cheeks, Oluwarotimi Sikiru looked lost. He knelt down as if addressing some audience. “I am appealing to good spirited Nigerians to come to my aid. My suffering has been compounded since going to prison for an offence I did not commit,” Sikiru said. Sikiru was in jail for 13 years as prisoner awaiting trial until February 14, 2003 on trumped-up robbery charge. He remarried after his release as his wife abandoned him during his years in jail.

Thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) being accommodated at the International Market Camp, Makurdi on Tuesday protested alleged diversion of relief materials by camp officials.

THE Government of the United States of America, USA, yesterday, bestowed a rare honour to a Nigerian Navy attache, Navy Captain Kolawole Oguntuda, with its Presidential Medal of Honour.

TEARS ran down freely Wednesday, from the eyes of friends, family members and some military personnel, both junior and senior as the remains of Group Captain Adanu Ochai, the Nigerian Air Force instructor pilot, who died in an air crash last week, was buried at the Abuja Military Cemetery.

Prices of food items in Owerri have continued to move up  following the demolition of Eke Ukwu market.

A total of 55 husbands have reported to the Lagos State Government how their wives battered them in the last eight years in renewed cases of domestic violence in the state.

UYO—THE Rotary Club International, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, has brought rivers of joy to 10-year-old Joy Kingsley Michael, the only survivor of the Itam Primary School, Uyo, pupils electrocuted by a high tension wire of the non-operational National Electric Power Authority, NEPA, after a heavy downpour, while returning from school in 2012.

Mrs Abibat Ayanlola, 32, who was delivered of a baby girl during Ojude-Oba Festival on Sunday in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun has received a cash gift of N100,000 from Gov. Ibikunle Amosun.

Many Illustrious Ijebu sons and daughters on Sunday defied the rains to converge in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State to grace the 2017 edition of the annual `Ojude Oba’ festival in the town.

Five years after Mary Sunday, a graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, was allegedly set ablaze by her   fiancé, a police officer identified as Corporal Isaac Gbanwuan, hope of her living a normal life again, even though still awaiting justice, beckons, thanks to the governor of Lagos State, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode.

The rainfall started around 7am on Thursday 17th August, 2017 and lasted till about 10am the same day. But the flash flooding that submerged a bridge along the road and the vehicle carrying three members of her family as they were passing through caught her unawares.

The United Kingdom is cracking down in the barbaric crime of modern slavery, International Development Secretary Priti Patel announced in Nigeria, as she called for a world free from this abhorrent trade.

Starting a new school year can be a time of great excitement and anxiety. However, with the right information, all of that can be a walkover. Vanguard Woman’s Own (published every Thursday in Vanguard Newspapers) is determined to help resolve this reoccurring challenge faced by every parent and for that, we will be feeding you our esteemed readers with a one-of-a-kind Back-To-School edition at intervals, in which we will be providing answers to all of your back-to-school challenges such as the following.

IBADAN — With the coronation of 21 new kings in Ibadan on Sunday, the history of the cosmopolitan city, especially in the traditional institution has changed. While greater percentage of the Ibadan indigenes are not opposed to what people described as a giant stride taken by Governor Abiola Ajimobi, others are afraid that the move could usher in violence and unhealthy competition among contenders for the stool in the future.

A Chairmanship Candidate for the Nigeria Union of Journalists NUJ, Lagos Council election, Dr. Qasim Akinreti, yesterday, said members’ welfare, capacity building and agriculture will be his priority, if elected into office in September 2017.