THE Director, Media and Publicity of the Tinubu Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga has criticised Nigerians who attacked the vice-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Kashim Shettima’s outfit at the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) Annual General Conference. Recall that Shettima was dragged by a section of Nigerian tweeps for wearing an oversized […]
THE House of Representatives Committee on National Security and Intelligence, on Tuesday began investigation into the attack at the Kuje Correctional Centre that led to the escape of 64 inmates. The committee’s chairman, Mr. Sha’aban Saraba, on Tuesday, in Abuja, said the House resolution to investigate the attack was sequel to a motion moved at […]
A Chief Magistrate Court presided over by Mrs Kadoon Gbasha in Makurdi the Benue State capital, has convicted a 30-year-old man, Mister Ternenge Peter living within the Wurukum axis Makurdi to one month community service for destroying a billboard belonging to the Peoples Democratic Party, mounted at Wurukum roundabout. The trial Magistrate Mrs Gbasha sentenced […]
The whereabouts of the Divisional Crime Officer, DCO, of Mbala Isuochi Police Division, Umunneochi council area of Abia State, DSP Dickson, is still unknown two weeks after he was kidnapped by gunmen at the station. The Abia state police command is yet to make any official statement on the incident. However, Vanguard gathered that the […]
A 22-year-old suspected cultist identified as Jamiu Rasheed, who was captured on CCTV on July 7, 2022, hacking and shooting to death a rival cult member at a restaurant in Alapere has been arrested by operatives of the Lagos State Police Command. In the CCTV recording, Jamiu Rasheed was seen killing Akinola Ayegbusi, a rival […]
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja declared that football remains the number one sport in Nigeria and a national asset and that his administration will resist any attempt to undermine its development. The President made the pledge while receiving the 10-year Football Development Masterplan submitted by the Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Chief […]
Novelist Chimamanda Adichie. NIGERIAN novelist Chimamanda Adichie says the country does not have “heroes” who will inspire its younger population. Adiche made the comment on Monday in her keynote address at the Annual General Meeting of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Lagos State. “We are starved of heroes. Our young people do not find […]
INDICATIONS emerged on Tuesday that the Federal government has referred an application from a splinter group of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, seeking registration to stand as a separate union to a committee to look into. Recall that the rival ASUU group with the name, Congress of University Academics, CONUA, recently called on […]
A business man, Isma’il Ibrahim, on Tuesday dragged one Zainab Muhammad, his mother in-law, to a Shari’a Court at Rigasa Kaduna, for allegedly refusing to allow his wife return to her matrimonial home. The complainant, Resident at Police Station road, Rigasa, told the court that the defendant had stopped his wife from returning home due […]
AGF Abubakar Malami and Mary Beth Leonard signed the agreement on behalf of both countries. NIGERIA and the United States government have reached an agreement on the return of over $23 million of the Abacha loot. The agreement signing ceremony was held in the office of the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the […]