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A hit-and-run driver, Itoro Clement has confessed to knocking down the missing Vanguard reporter, Tordue Salem. The driver stated this while being paraded by the police at the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) premises, Guzape, Abuja. He said he knocked ...

  The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has said the competitiveness which Nigerians display abroad is a result of the good education they acquired before travelling out of the country. This is as he urged Nigerians in Diaspora to ...

  Pastoralists under the umbrella of the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore said they are willing and ready to quit open grazing in line with public suggestions if government would make financial and logistics provision for alternatives grazing for them. The ...

As Nigerians continue to be under burden of high food prices, an October 2021 Food Security and Nutrition Analysis, also called the Cadre Harmonise, Thursday, revealed that 12.1 million Nigerians will be thrown into food crisis before the end of ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has presented a Certificate of Return to Professor Chukwuma Soludo, the winner of Anambra State governorship election. Soludo, the candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliace, APGA, was declared winner of the November 6 election ...

Almost 4000 prison escapees have not been recaptured, according to interior minister, Rauf Aregbesola. He revealed this Thursday during a media briefing organised by the Presidential Communication Media Team at the State House, Abuja. In 2020 alone, 4,369 inmates escaped ...

More than 200 clients watched on helplessly yesterday as an armed robber shot their fitness trainer in the head and killed him during a live-streamed Zoom training session. Lawrence Masinge was shot dead in a suspected armed robbery in his ...

The candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the just concluded Anambra State Governorship Election, Senator Andy Uba, has rejected the outcome of the polls. Uba said this in a statement titled, ‘Senator Andy Uba Rejects the outcome of Anambra ...

Nkechi Mogbo, the owner of the short service apartment used by the murdered Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Michael Ataga, has told the court how he rented her apartment. A 300-level Mass Communication student of the University of Lagos, ...

The Osun State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps on Thursday said a housewife, identified simply as Suliyat, was arrested for stealing a goat. A statement by the command’s spokesperson, Daniel Adigun, said the suspect left her ...

Chief Lucky Nosakhare Igbinedion, former governor of Edo State, is currently being grilled by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over what a source described as alleged criminal diversion of public funds to the tune of N1.6bn. ...

  A businesswoman, Christiana Bernard, has been kidnapped by suspected hoodlums in the NTA area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Punch Metro gathered that Bernard was driving into her compound on Wednesday when she was attacked by the gunmen. Punch ...

A heavily armed group, identified as “The Angry Vipers”, has threatened to attack Anambra-born businessman and socialite, Obi Cubana, due to the presence of Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, at his mother’s burial. The burial, which was held at ...

Elizabeth Jessica Kuraun, the sister of Vanguard reporter, Tordue Henry Salem, who was found yesterday in Abuja is deamnding answers to know who killed him. Salem, who was covering the House of Representatives, was found dead on Thursday, 29 days ...

A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has sentenced a 39-year-old man, Justice Aniele, to life imprisonment for unlawful s-xual intercourse with a 14-year-old girl. Aniele, who is a pastor with the Assemblies of God, r*ped the 14-year-old ...

Nigeria has lost its Africa’s top oil producer status to Libya as its crude oil production fell further last month amid lingering supply disruptions, according to a new report by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. Nigeria told OPEC ...

Vanguard missing reporter, Tordue Henry Salem, has been found dead in Abuja. Details of the circumstances surrounding the recovery of his remains were still sketchy as at 9.30 pm, Thursday. Late Salem who was covering the House of Representatives, was ...

The EFCC has arraigned one Tope Jimi Fagun before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri on a-two count charge of impersonation and obtaining N70 Million by false pretence. Fagun allegedly presented himself as Pastor Ize Iyamu ...

The police have arrested 14 suspects in connection with the raid on Justice Mary Odili’s Maitama residence in Abuja on 29 October. The arrest comes about 10 days after IGP Usman Alkali Baba ordered a swift probe into the embarrassing ...

The management of Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, has expelled 29 students of the institution for alleged examination malpractices. The institution announced the expulsion of the affected students in a statement signed by Mrs Oluwakemi Opadiran on behalf of the Registrar, ...

An official of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Cross River State has shot a man said to be urinating opposite the Calabar, Cross River State office of the Corps. The 32-year-old man simply identified as Nwa-Aba ...

Traffic has been disrupted at Wempco road, Ogba-Omole axis area of Lagos following an accident that occurred today. The lone accident according to LASTMA officials involved an articulated vehicle that was conveying a container to an undisclosed location. The accident ...

A man deliberately chopped off his own legs to claim a £2.4 million insurance payout but instead has ended up with a suspended jail sentence and a heavy fine. A court has determined the defendant named only as Sandor Cs., ...

Just like her husband, Governor El-Rufai’s wife, Hadiza Isma El-Rufai has received heavy knocks for tweeting outside the country. By the way Mrs El-Rufai in her tweet told her followers she was out of the country and said she was ...

The Senate on Tuesday held a minute silence to mourn the killing of over 120 Nigerians by bandits at Gorony market in Sokoto State. Lawmaker representing, Sokoto East, Senator Ibrahim Gobir, had drawn the attention of the upper chamber to ...