…intercepts diverted Benue CA-COVID palliatives worth over N4m By Bashir Bello The Kano State Police Command on Wednesday says it has arrested no fewer than 259 suspected kidnappers, armed robbers and others within and outside the state. This was also as it says it intercepted 1,950 cartons of Dangote branded indomie noodles meant for Benue state palliative tagged …
Delta Governor, Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi Okowa (left), the Country Representative, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Dr Vladimir Kreck (middle), and the Director General National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS), Prof Abubakar Suleiman, during a courtesy on the Governor call in Asaba. Wednesday Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, on Wednesday, attributed the security challenges inhibiting socio-economic development of the nation to …
By Olasunkanmi Akoni The Federal Government has expressed readiness to partner with South-West governors in the area of provision of infrastructure aimed at opening up the region for more development opportunities for public housing. The Management of the Federal Housing Authority, led by the Managing Director, Senator Gbenga Ashafa, and the Executive Director, Business Development, Abdulmumin Jibrin, disclosed this …
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State. By Elizabeth Osayande Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has reiterated his administration’s commitment to reward excellence service delivery in the Lagos State Post-Primary teaching service, pledging 20 cars to deserving outstanding teachers across the six education districts in the state. Governor Sanwo-Olu made the pledge during the virtual training of teachers tagged …
By Ike Uchechukwu The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, University of Calabar Chapter have protested 6 years of unpaid salaries and entitlements by the institution. The ASUU members who converged in their numbers at the UNICAL International Conference Centre and took their protest to the main gate before dispersing at the administrative building were demanding unpaid salaries by …
Disgraced George Washington University professor Jessica Krug, who sparked a firestorm by pretending to be black, has now quit her job at the school, officials announced Wednesday. Krug, 38, who is actually white, had already been pulled from teaching duties this semester and faced calls to step down after she admitted being a “culture leech” who publicly lied …
The Federal Government and the National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, Wednesday night, signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with a view to resolving the ongoing nationwide strike of the resident doctors. Following the MoU, NARD leaders are expected to meet today (Thursday) with a view to calling off the ongoing strike. Below is the full text of …
By Emma Ujah The Debt Management Office (DMO), Wednesday, put the nation’s total public debt stock at N31.009 trillion or $85.897 billion, as at June 31, 2020, representing 8.3 per cent rise from N28.628 trillion in March 2020. The figure comprised the debt stock of the federal government, the 36 state governments and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). …
TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company is reportedly in talks with the US government about a possible deal to avoid an outright sale of the popular app’s US operations. ByteDance and top US officials are negotiating possible arrangements that would allow it to maintain some ownership stake in TikTok while still satisfying the US’s demand that China have no way …
He was a terror, but his killing on a day he was to embrace peace has raised eyebrows. The late Terwase Akwaza, popular known as Gana, graduated from being a bully to freedom fighter and ultimately a gang leader with a wide territory, write UJA EMMANUEL and SANNI ONOGU Terwase Akwaza, popular known as Gana in mind, did not see …
Former General Secretary of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Owei Lakemfa, has lamented that what the nation was witnessing in the name of fuel subsidy was the government transferring its incompetence to Nigerians. He said the government was manifesting gross incompetence if it rode to power on the wings of promises to fight corruption and bring change, but cannot …
Recent scenarios may have brought to light the intentions of investors and deceptions at play in the agricultural- rich Edo State. In resonance to some resounding revelations, a close study of the Edo State-born billionaire businessman, and supporter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, in the September 19, 2020 governorship election, Capt Hosa Well …
Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has fixed Thursday, Sept. 10, for ruling in the bail plea by Vijah Opuama, the Bayelsa Governorship Candidate in the Nov. 16, 2019 election. Justice Taiwo fixed the date, on Wednesday, after taking arguments from counsel to the parties, following police’s compliance with the order that Opuama be produced …
President Trump on Wednesday defended his decision to downplay the severity of the coronavirus to the American people, saying that the ensuing panic would have only exacerbated the oncoming pandemic. “I’m a cheerleader for this country,” he told reporters during an unrelated White House briefing. “I don’t want people to be frightened. I don’t want to create panic. …
Dr Frederic Oladeinde, Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, says the state government plans to acquire 2000 units of 11 and 13 seat microbuses to ease gridlock in the state. Oladeinde made the disclosure during an oversight visit by the Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Transportation, led by Mr Temitope Adewale (Ifako-Ijaiye I), on Wednesday in Lagos. …
Professor Yemi Osinbajo Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the notion that victims or potential victims of sexual harassment are architects of their fate, especially by their attitude, dressing or willingness to be in a compromising place with their violators is wrong. Osinbajo was quoted in a statement in Abuja by his aide, Laolu Akande, to have expressed this view …
The Comptroller General, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mr Muhammad Babandede has warned Nigerians to desist from using fake, altered, invalidated, withdrawn, stolen and lost travel documents. Babandede, who gave the warning in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja, said that such documents had been automatically made available to 194 member countries …
Governor Seyi Makinde Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has promised to complete no fewer than 351 model primary health centres across the state before the end of his administration in 2023. Makinde, who made the promise on Wednesday in Saki town during the inauguration of the Saki Specialist Hospital, said that one primary healthcare centre would be built …
The Lagos Building Investment Company (LBIC) Plc says it is intensifying processes to ensure that civil servants in Lagos State have access to funding and own homes. The Chairman of LBIC, Mr Hakeem Ogunniran, said this on Wednesday while speaking to journalists after paying a courtesy visit to Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu at Lagos House, Ikeja. Ogunniran said that …
A Nigerian newspaper and Online version of the Vanguard, a daily publication in Nigeria covering Nigeria news, Niger delta, general national news, politics, business, energy, sports, entertainment, fashion,lifestyle human interest stories, etc Late Yemi Taiwo By Evelyn Usman One of the men arrested for allegedly planning to abduct the newly installed monarch of Isiu, in Ikorodu area of Lagos, Oba …
