Uzodinma has achieved nothing – PDP Secretary By Chinonso Alozie, Owerri The Imo state government, Wednesday. said that Emeka Ihedioha, used his seven months in office as governor, to expand his mansions in Owerri, Aboh Mbaise and Abuja. The State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Declan Emelumba, spoke in Owerri, on My radio FM, while […]

The Edo State Government has received a cash donation from an 11-year-old girl, Miss Agbongiarhuoyi Eloghosa Favour, in support of government’s efforts to contain the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the state. Making her donation in Government House Benin City, Favour said she is supporting the Edo State Government with the money in commemoration of her […]

….. Says Eighty Million Nigerians Don’t Have access to Electricity By Nasiru Suleiman Nigeria Minister of Power, Alhaji Saleh Mamman has dismissed the speculations that the federal government will pay two-month electricity for Nigerians as part of palliatives to citizens to cushion the effect of the lockdown due to the outbreak of COVID-19. Mr. Mammam […]

By Abdulmumin Murtala, Kano Kano State Government has on Monday declared that it will investigate a story doing the rounds on social media on the purported increase in number of deaths within two days that were buried in some cemeteries in the ancient city. The state Commissioner for Health Ibrahim Tsanyawa said in a press […]

Since writing the first column on the Business/Economic pages of VANGUARD in 1987, during the Babangida administration, nothing has first surprised, then amused me more than how the same set of fantasies/lies get recycled from one generation to the next. It is remarkable how appointed officials deceiving the Head of State and duping him into endorsing their dodgy schemes, go to great lengths to suppress the truth and intimidate those attempting to expose their lies.

The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) in Gombe State has embarked on an indefinite strike over working conditions. Dr Saidu Alhassan, President of the association said during a news briefing on Monday in Gombe that the doctors proceeded on strike after 11 weeks of inconclusive negotiations with the state government. According to him,  members of […]

 By Dirisu Yakubu SANUSI. “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is strength,” slogans of Orwellian fictional Inner Party in Nineteen Eighty Four His is a classical instance of a privileged upbringing. Born into royalty, he attended some of the best schools and became an advocate of social justice, democracy and good governance. Blessed with […]

By Shina Abubakar THE Osun State House of Assembly, yesterday, read a bill to check the mismanagement of government funds and assets for the first time. The bill titled: Public Financial Management Bill was accompanied by a letter from Governor Adegboyega Oyetola and scaled through first reading at plenary. The Speaker of Osun House of […]

Former Minister of State for Education, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, has urged the Federal Government to take concerted steps to bring back Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to serve the country.

By Demola Akinyemi First time in 20 years, the ongoing examinations of students of University were truncated Tuesday as their lecturers joined the nationwide two weeks warning strike as directed by the national leadership of Academic Staff Union of Nigeria University (ASUU). The Chairman of ASUU, University of Ilorin branch Professor Moyosore Ajao told journalists […]

Yabagi Sani was the presidential candidate of the Action Democratic Party, ADP, in the 2019 elections. In this interview, Sani speaks about the state of the nation.

The Edo State Government has said that the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and his co-dissidents in the Edo Peoples Movement (EPM) are planning to sponsor protests across the state targeted at maligning and undermining the government. In a statement, Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Communication […]

The Democratic Republic of Congo must nearly halve government spending plans this year, the finance ministry said on Monday, in a blow to President Felix Tshisekedi’s much-touted anti-poverty schemes. The government’s budget for 2020 set down the equivalent of $10.59 billion dollars in spending but only $5.45 billion is being allocated, the finance ministry said. […]

The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has blamed the nation’s underdevelopment on the previous administrations stating they “abandoned their responsibilities”. The Organisation’s Chairman, Mr Niyi Akinsiju, stated this on Sunday at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja. According to Akinsiju; “If today, we are talking of bad roads, bad hospitals, bad schools, it […]

The Nigerian government has created a committee to address the issues that led to a suspension of US immigrant visas to its citizens, the president’s office said on Saturday. Nigeria was among six countries, four of them in Africa added to a visa ban announced on Friday in a presidential proclamation. US officials said the countries failed to […]