By Onozure Dania – Lagos Four suspected traffic robbers who were arrested by the Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, while trying to attack a motorist, were arraigned before a Lagos Magistrates’ Court sitting at Ebute-Metta. The defendants are Aliu Umar 30, Mustaphar Umar 30, Abubakar Laraban 20 and Aliu Mohammed 20. They are standing […]

The defence team of embattled Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju James, alias Baba Ijesha, said at an Ikeja Special Offences Court that the actor did not sexually touch a 14-year-old minor in a Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) footage tendered as exhibit. A member of Baba Ijesha’s defence team, Mr Dada Awosika (SAN), made the assertion on Tuesday, […]

By Ndahi Marama, MAIDUGURI No fewer 250,000 women are battling Vesico Vaginal Fistula, VVF, in the country. However, only 3,000 of that number are fortunate enough to be attended to annually. This was revealed by Board Chairman, North-East Development Commission, NEDC, Major-General Paul Tarfa, during the flag-off of Free Fistula Repair Campaign Project, FFRCP, by […]

By Dennis Agbo A Fifteen-year-old orphan and an indigene of Emudo-Nenwe in Aninri Local Government area of Enugu, Master Chimdalu Ugwueke, has narrated his survival from torture, starvation and and grievous body harms from the hands of his benefactor, a retired Air Force officer, Mr Bernard Ugwueke and Wife, Mary, at Kuje area of the […]

Social networking service, Facebook, has restricted a new account belonging to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). This was disclosed by a member of the proscribed organisation, Simon Ekpa, on Tuesday. “Our new Facebook page has been blocked restricted by Facebook,” Ekpa wrote. Vanguard recalls that in January 2020, the group had alleged that Facebook […]