By Peter Duru MAKURDI—Gunmen stormed Igumale Police Station in Ado Local Government Area of Benue State, yesterday morning, killing three police officers and leaving another in critical condition. Vanguard learned that the heavily-armed men also broke into the armoury of [...]
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA—A legal practitioner, Mr. Ugochukwu Osuagwu, whose firm wrote a letter to the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, deman-ding for information on assets declared by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, has opened up [...]
Zambia national football team acting head coach Wedson Nyirenda has named his final 23-man squad for the 2018 World Cup qualifier with Nigeria to be played at the Levy Mwanawasa Stadium on October 9. Nyirenda announced his final squad after [...]
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA—THE leadership of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has said that those calling for the disintegration in Nigeria would not succeed as there were enough gains to stay as one entity. NLC also urged all Nigerians to join hands [...]
By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South; Jimitota Onoyume, Sam Oyadongha, Emmanuel Una, Chioma Onuegbu Brisibe Perez & Davies Iheamnachor PORT HARCOURT- THERE were mixed reactions, weekend, across states in the South-South to President Muhammadu Buhari’s Independence Day speech threatening to [...]
By Gabriel Olawale Following the annual recurrence of deaths from rabid dog bites in Lagos State, the Nigeria Veterinary Medical Association, NVMA, Lagos state chapter, has called on the state government to review existing dog laws in the state to encourage [...]
By Ochuko Akuopha OLEH—RESIDENTS of Oleh, headquarters of Isoko South Local Government Area, Delta State, were, weekend, thrown into confusion following the discovery of the lifeless body of a day old baby in a bush path in the community. It [...]
By Dayo Johnson Akure—ANOTHER crisis is looming in the troubled All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ondo State as some notable leaders of the party kicked against the choice of Mr Agboola Ajayi as the running mate of the party’s candidate, [...]
By Emman Ovuakporie & Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA—THE Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Army, Rimande Shawulu, has said there was urgent need for the Federal Government to recruit more soldiers to combat insurgents in the North Eastern part of Nigeria. [...]
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The various reactions on Independence Day yesterday can only compel us to ask one question: what does Nigeria mean to you or me? I had written a piece on Friday, September 30, in which I advised that Nigerians should embrace [...]
The popular leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, Sheikh Ibrahim El Zakzaky and his wife are still in custody and suffering from serious health conditions as a result of lack of access to adequate medical care, a Nigerian [...]
Daily Grace Inspiration is a devotional that brings you the message of grace from Joseph Prince, the world celebrated TV preacher and pastor. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, [...]
Some 348 persons suspected to be members of the Boko Haram terrorists group have been cleared and released by the Nigerian Army in restive northeast Borno State, an official said on Saturday, October 1, 2016. The general officer commanding the [...]
International Observer Groups such as the American Observer team, the British Council and others from the Netherlands and Scotland and African Union observer team have expressed reservations about the conduct of the Edo governorship election held on Wednesday, September 28, 2016. [...]
Intersociety, the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, writes an open letter to Abubakar Malami, Nigeria’s federal attorney general decrying the human rights abuses perpetrated by security agencies in the country since President Muhammadu Buhari was [...]
The Concerned Militant Leaders, CML, of the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria has declared that 24 soldiers captured during their encounter with military men on the morning of Friday, September 30, 2016 will not be released, The Sun reports. Also, [...]
Hillary Clinton’s campaign Saturday night seized on a New York Times report about a 1995 tax record filed by Donald Trump, in which the Times showed he declared a $ 916 million loss that could have allowed him to legally [...]
Today is a Sunday and I swear to God, I am tired! I am tired of a president who lies without flinching. I am tired of a government that is constantly lying to its citizens without repulsion. Here are some of the [...]
Nigeria’s former President Goodluck Jonathan along with his wife, Dame Patience Jonathan are visiting their home state of Bayelsa on Sunday, October 2, 2016 after marking the October 1 Independence Day in Abuja. Dr. Jonathan, who has been dubbed by [...]
Barring last minute political maneuvering, President Muhammadu Buhari will be resigning from his position as Nigerian Oil Minister, as the failed governor of Edo State, Mr Adams Oshiomhole has been penciled to be the Nigerian new Minister of Petroleum Resources, on [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari in attempts to position himself for the 2019 Presidential election is financially strengthening some of his loyalists across the country through the award of lucrative contracts and appointment as Managing directors and board members into juicy Agencies, Ministries [...]
Retired Col Sambo Dasuki, the former National Security Adviser (NSA) has in the last two days been declared “missing’’, following the inability of the Federal Government to produce him before an Abuja High Court for trial, in the charges of money [...]
Zuckerberg Adds Hausa Language: Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, Friday, added Hausa language, Fula, and two others, Maltese and Corsican to Facebook, making the social media platform become available in more than 100 languages. Zuckerberg announced this yesterday where [...]
Retired Col Sambo Dasuki, the former National Security Adviser (NSA) has in the last two days been declared “missing’’, following the inability of the Federal Government to produce him before an Abuja High Court for trial, in the charges of money [...]
Recession: As the country celebrates its 56th independence anniversary, some women in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have decried the continuous hike in the prices of food items in the market as carton of fish hit N22,000. Some of them, [...]
THE choice of Prof Pat Utomi was made inevitable by the fact that he is not short of pertinent ideas on how Nigeria can get out of the woods. No matter what some may think of him and his models, [...]
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri MEMBERS of the House of Representatives, led by the Speaker, Hon. Yakubu Dogara,yesterday, asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to hands-off a suit the erstwhile Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Jibrin Abdulmumin [...]
By Onochie Anibeze Permit a personal dimension to this prologue. There were trenches in many neighbourhoods and we all rushed into them and stayed there all day to avoid air raids. Bombings were not restricted to the battle fronts or [...]
Nigeria at 56 : A Story of Prodigality By Dr. Ugoji Egbujo So it’s 56 years since independence. Who knows where they imagined we would be? Yes, Hebert Macaulay and co-dreamers. Perhaps in the neighbourhood of Indonesia. Fate [...]
Bribery: NJC sacks 3 judges, orders prosecution By Ikechukwu Nnochiri The National Judicial Council, NJC, yesterday, sacked three judges found to have abused their office by accepting gratifications from litigants before their courts. The Justices the legal body under the [...]
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