Fear has gripped residents of Gboko town, the ancestral home of the Tiv nation, as troops of the Nigerian Army in seven trucks moved into the...
A list of individuals drafted into the Nigerian Immigration’s Comptroller Cadre is a clear evidence that a promotion exercise which was conducted in July 2017 was...
MANY nations world over that perceive the education of its citizenry as part of capital and national development, have continuously ensured that its people have access...
Some residents of Magboro, in the Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State, have called on the Ogun State Government and security agencies to rein...
Electricity generation in the country is facing fresh threat as Generating Companies (GenCos) have foreseen a gradual shut down of thermal plants that are powered by...
The Chief Whip of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Ado Doguwa, is facing sanction from his colleagues over his comments on the last week amendments to...
Senators are threatening to boycott the February 1 security summit organised by the upper chamber, it was learnt yesterday. They do not want the Villa Banquet...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is set to revoke licences of more than 15 mobile money operators that have increasingly found it difficult to operate...
President Muhammadu Buhari has warned his media aides against “engaging or instigating attacks” against former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his recent statement on the performance of...
The Administrative Panel of Inquiry, set up to look into the allegations of financial misconduct by the Director-General, Securities and Exchange Commission, Mr Mounir Gwarzo, has...
Disbelief and shock yesterday trailed Federal Government’s claim that it would spend over N1 billion in preparations for the burial of the former Vice President, Dr...
Information have emerged that about 50 per cent of the 1.2 million candidates that met the Joint Board Matriculation Board (JAMB) cut-off mark have been given...
Barely a week after former President Olusegun Obasanjo advised President Muhammadu Buhari not to seek re-election in 2019; campaign posters of ex-Secretary to the Government of...
There is tension in Taraba State Government House as the Chief of Staff to the governor, Rebo Usman, tendered his resignation letter to Governor Darius Ishaku...
The All Progressives Congress is to present the report of its panel on true federalism to members of the public on Wednesday. It was gathered in...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is considering heading to the Supreme Court for determination of its powers to fix the date for general elections, following...
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Information and National Orientation, Senator Suleiman Adokwe, has discountenanced former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s touted “Coalition for Nigeria Movement”, as an alternative...
A suspect, allegedly involved in the murder of Chief Eyo Eyo Bassey, has reportedly escaped from Police custody in Bakassi Police Divisional Headquarters. Recall that 52-year-old...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has interrogated an assistant controller of Prisons and others over an alleged N300m contract given to some companies owned by...
The influx of thousands of Cameroonians from Southern Cameroon into the country is raising serious humanitarian concerns in Cross River State. No fewer than 36, 000...
The National Emergency Manage-ment Agency (NEMA) is currently enmeshed in a massive scandal after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) uncovered an alleged N2.5billion fraud...
Leaders of the All Progressives Congress in Benue State led by Governor Samuel Ortom are in search of a new political platform ahead of the 2019...
The Coalition for Nigeria, a third-force political group being championed by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, appears to be a major platform that has continued to attract...
Hundreds of passengers of Med-View Airline to Dubai and London were stranded on Thursday and yesterday at the Murtala Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. This...
The interim board of 9mobile may have finally settled for Teleology Holdings Limited as the preferred bidder for 9mobile, the country’s fourth-largest mobile network, according to...
SECURITY expert and advocate against drug abuse, Shola Mese, has described inadequate engagement of personnel and resources in the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, as...
A least three persons were killed while more than 20 houses were razed during a bloody clash between suspected Fulani herdsmen and natives of Miango in...
The political movement promoted by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Coalition for Nigeria is due for launch January 31. The movement is currently being coordinated by a...
No fewer than 12 newly-signed Nasarawa United players were ejected from their Lafia hotel after the Premier League club allegedly failed to settle their bills. PUNCH...
On the second night of his detention over alleged siphoning of at least N200 million from the Presidential Initiative for the North East by the Economic...
The naira is set for a smooth sail against other currencies from now till a greater part of 2018. This could spell doom for hoarders including...
A couple, who retired from the Ondo State Civil Service and went into agriculture, Mr and Mrs Igbekele Olukolade, are counting their losses after an attack...
The unavailability of gas is preventing the generation of over 1,500 megawatts of electricity on a daily basis since the beginning of this year. Gas-fired power...
A grand plot to remove Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, is in the works and is being allegedly championed by a former governor and a serving...
President Muhammadu Buhari has tapped Mr. Edward Lametek Adamu, a Christian from Gombe State, as the new deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has seized five houses from a contractor Prof. Adenekan Iyiola Adesanya for allegedly diverting about N8billion out of over...
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, has halted the distribution of fez caps and branded materials promoting the candidacy of President...
As former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s bombshell to President Muhammadu Buhari, advising him not to re-contest the 2019 presidential election sent shock waves across the country Tuesday,...
A potential battle is currently looming between the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and Interconnect Exchange Operators over some alleged sharp practices going on in the telecommunications...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo may have consulted some former Presidents and Northern leaders before issuing yesterday’s statement on President Muhammadu Buhari. It was learnt that Obasanjo...
THE Police at the Port command, Apapa, Lagos, yesterday, arrested an agent alleged to have cleared a 20-foot container loaded with military camouflage uniforms and other...
The National Security Adviser (NSA), Gen. Babagana Monguno, has ordered that the cash be kept in protective custody pending the conclusion of investigation by the Economic...
The immediate past caretaker chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Ahmed Makarfi, has said that his party will wait for the presidential candidate of...
Preparatory to the 2019 general elections, the leadership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is banking on seven people to challenge the All Progressives Congress (APC)...
HEAPS of refuse have taken over some streets in Owerri municipality and the adjoining communities. VANGUARD Correspondent, who monitored the situation yesterday, noticed that the most...
No state in the southern Nigeria has volunteered to provide land to the Federal Government to set up cattle colonies in order to address the incessant...
THERE seems to be no end to the alleged mind-boggling financial misappropriation in the former President Goodluck Jonathan administration. In the centre of it all is,...
The contractor handling the Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail project, the Chinese Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC), has disclosed that the December 2018 deadline given by the...
A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Umar Gali Na’Abba, has said President Muhammadu Buhari lacks the physical and intellectual capacity to govern Nigeria....
The Senate has begun high-level consultations with the Presidency and other stakeholders over its proposed security summit scheduled to hold in the next two weeks. The...
