No fewer than 27 mourners were Sunday evening reportedly gunned down and several others sustained injuries when suspected armed herders stormed the Odugbeho community in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue state during a burial ceremony. Vanguard gathered from a source in the area that the marauders invaded and surrounded the community at about […]
Jemima Osunde, Nollywood actress, has joined other Nigerian graduates for the compulsory National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) programme. The 25-year-old movie star, who bagged a degree in Physiotherapy from the University of Lagos (UNILAG), took to her Instagram page on Monday to reveal that she is presently undergoing the compulsory programme at the Lagos […]
Nigeria’s Senate President, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, on Monday, said the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) will be passed before the end of June, 2021 by the National Assembly. PIB, which is targeted to open up the nation’s oil and gas industry, has spent twenty years on the floor of both chambers Lawan said the Senate […]
The people of Ewu-Urhobo Kingdom, on Monday crowned their new monarch, HRM Gabriel Owhodje Macaulay, Aroh 1 of Ewu Kingdom. The ceremony took place at the Ewu Kingdom Hall at Otorere-Ewu in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State Speaking on the ceremony, the Otota of Ewu Kingdom, stressed that the Kingship in […]
The Kaduna State Government said troops of 4Demo Battalion of the Nigerian Army have repelled an attempted attack by bandits on some locations along Kaduna-Zaria highway. According to a statement issued on Monday in Kaduna by the state Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, several bandits were neutralised by the […]
A low magnitude tremor was witnessed in Nigeria at the weekend originating around Omu-Aran in Kwara state. The tremor, according to Professor Adepelumi Abraham of the Department of Geophysics at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun, where the phenomenon was recorded, the tremor has a focal depth of 15 kilometres. The report titled, […]
The federal government has given a condition to lift its indefinite suspension of Twitter in Nigeria. The minister of foreign affairs Geoffrey Onyema in a meeting with some envoys said that Twitter’s operations in Nigeria will be restored only if the platform can be used “responsibly”. Asked when the ban will be lifted, Onyeama […]
Authorities of the Petroleum Training Institute have said that the tipper driver who allegedly hit and killed a student at the weekend has been arrested and is currently behind bars. A tipper truck had on Friday evening crushed a final year female student of the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) Effurun, Uvwie council area of […]
The Onion Producers and Marketers Association (OPMAN) says it is discontinuing the supply of onions to the entire South from Monday, citing insecurity and the government’s failure to compensate its members who suffered losses in the past. Aliyu Isa, the national president of the association, disclosed this when addressing journalists at a press briefing […]
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 11 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 166, 767. The centre said the 11 new infections were recorded in Lagos with nine cases, the FCT-one and Kano-one. The NCDC also said that there are 1, 544 active […]
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