By Bashir Bello KANO— A Kano High Court has sentenced two men to death by hanging for stabbing to death a lecturer with the state-owned university, Northwest University Kano, Buhari Imam. The duo of Aliyu Hussaini and Amir Zakariyya were convicted on a three-count charge of conspiracy, armed robbery and culpable homicide. The trial judge, […]

By Emma Unah CALABAR—A 22-year-old woman, identified as Odama Mary Agado, has reportedly taken her own life by drinking a substance suspected to be Sniper after she allegedly caught her boyfriend with another woman. Mary, who hailed from Woleche-Ipuole in Yahe Ward, Yala Local Government Area of Cross River State, was until her death a […]

By Marie-Therese Nanlong Jos—Troops of the 3 Division and the Joint Task Force, Operation Enduring Peace, JTF OPEP, have recovered a cache of arms and ammunition during a raid in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State. The operation, according to military authorities, followed credible intelligence indicating that bandits were stockpiling weapons in the […]

By Evelyn Usman Tragedy struck at Obadore, inward Igando, along the LASU-Igando Road, Lagos, at about 11 p.m. on Saturday, when a fully loaded commercial bus rammed into a broken-down Private Sector Participant (PSP) waste truck, leaving one person dead and several others injured. The incident prompted a swift response from the Lagos State Emergency […]

By Evelyn Usman Residents of the Natufe/Animashaun community, off Babs Animashaun Road in the Bode Thomas area of Surulere, Lagos, have staged a protest against the construction of a cemetery in their neighbourhood, describing the project as illegal, hazardous, and environmentally unsafe. Carrying placards with inscriptions such as “No to Cemetery in Nature Estate,” “Don’t […]

Ayodeji was a healthy, hardworking father of two. He worked with an outdoor advertising agency based in the Lekki area of Lagos

Enugu State Governor, Dr Peter Mbah, was literally shooting from the hips in an encounter with a team of Vanguard editors

By Adeola Badru The Oyo State Police Command has arrested a man, identified as Lawal Faruq, for allegedly setting his former lover, Omolola Hassan, ablaze within a military barracks in Ibadan. The horrific incident, which occurred earlier in the week, reportedly stemmed from the breakdown of the couple’s relationship. A counterinsurgency expert, Zagazola Makama, who […]

•He started having sex with her since age 3 – Police•Another suspect nabbed for defilement, drug-induced abortion of minor By Dayo Johnson Akure Police detectives in Ondo state have arrested a father, Oyewole Adamolekun for alleged incest and impregnating his 15 year old daughter in Ajue Area, Ondo state. Adamolekun, a resident of Taye Village, […]

•Defends defection to APC  •If I were after personal interest I wondn’t leave   PDP  •S-East has never been so fragmented as now  •We have elevated service beyond personalities  •Nigeria can never be a one-party state •My goal is to make Enugu best state in Nigeria By Onochie Anibeze (Saturday Editor), Ochereome Nnanna (Chairman Editorial Board), […]

Nigeria is bleeding from its ungoverned spaces which are widening and there is palpable fear from forest to forest, creek to creek and state to state. Across the country, terrorists, bandits, kidnappers, and robbers have carved out territories that have slipped beyond state control while citizens live at the mercy of men with guns.

Suicide IS on the front burner as an array of enlightened speakers and panellists gather to deliberate on critical issues around mental health, in continuation of the public enlightenment and education on mental health in Nigeria, as Vanguard hosts the third edition of its Mental Health Summit Series.

Tragedy struck early Thursday at the PWD Railway Level Crossing in Ikeja, Lagos, when a dispatch rider was crushed to death by a moving train, while attempting to cross the tracks.

By Okechukwu Nwanguma October 2020 marked a defining moment in Nigeria’s history. For weeks, young Nigerians occupied streets and public squares, united by a simple but profound demand: End Police brutality, ensure accountability, and reform the Nigeria Police. The #EndSARS movement was a cry from a generation that had grown weary of impunity. It was […]

CONTROVERSY has continued to trail the killing of Ugochukwu Oghenekaro, who had visited a friend along with two others on Sunday, at Delta Marine Logistics and Technical, DMLT Estate in Otokutu, Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State.