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The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha has said that it is worrisome that some Christians exhibit reckless confidence in the face of the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic. Mustapha who spoke at the Interdenominational Church Prayer Service, ...

An Administration Police officer is on the run after shooting her husband twice with an AK-47 rifle at Dago Area in Nyalenda, Kisumu following a domestic quarrel According to the police report, APC Maureen who is based at Kisumu East ...

The Secretary to Ondo State Government, Mr Ifedayo Abegunde has resigned his appointment. Abegunde said he would communicate his next line of action within the next 24 hours. Vanguard, however, gathered that he would be defecting to the opposition Peoples ...

Imo state Governor, Hope Uzodinma,  has said the names of those earning more than N330 million annually as pension will be published soon. While speaking at a meeting with the leadership of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP) in Owerri, ...

Nigerians are in shock and mourning a pretty young lady who celebrated her birthday yesterday but died shortly after. Known as Deborah, her friends have taken to social media to share videos from her birthday party, which saw her very ...

The family of the late Oyo governor, Abiola Ajimobi, said on Sunday that it had no intention to bar the Deputy Governor of the state, Rauf Olaniyan, from the eight-day Fidau prayer organized for the deceased. Ajimobi’s former media aide, ...

Benue State University Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic, Prof Godwin Achinge, is dead. Achinge, who was also the vice-chairman of Benue State Action Committee on COVID-19, had earlier tested positive for coronavirus. The academic, according to a source, died on Sunday afternoon ...

The Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress, Delta State, Goodluck Ofobruku, has been kidnapped. The Punch gathered that the union leader was kidnapped around 8 pm on Saturday while driving out of his house behind the Immigration office along Ibusa/Asaba road ...

Madagascar has placed its capital Antananarivo under a fresh lockdown following a new surge in coronavirus infections, two months after the restrictions were eased, the presidency announced Sunday. “The Analamanga region (under which the capital is situated) is returning to ...

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has affirmed the election of Mr Yahaya Bello as the governor of Kogi State. A five-man panel of justices of the court upheld Governor Bello’s election in a judgement delivered on Saturday in ...

Two youngsters have been hit by stray bullets during a confrontation between customs men and petrol smugglers at Seme border in Lagos State. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), two boys – Hunsu Taiwo (12), and Ganjo Henry (10), ...

Drama ensured on Sunday morning after Oyo state deputy governor Rauf Olaniyan was denied access to the venue of the eighth day fidau prayers of the former governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, at Oluyole, Ibadan. Olaniyan arrived at the ...

An Indian businessman has paid about $4,000 for possibly the world’s most expensive face mask. It is a bespoke gold face mask to protect him from the coronavirus raging in the country. However, the mask may not be as effective ...

Ikenna Nweke, a Nigerian Ph.D student in Japan, says not everyone from his country is a criminal. While on his way home in Japan on June 19, Nweke had found a wallet containing a “huge sum of money”. But rather ...

Nigeria’s COVID-19 (Coronavirus) cases have surpassed 28,000 mark after the nation recorded 603 fresh cases of the virus on Saturday. According to figures released by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Nigeria now has 28,167 confirmed cases. However, from ...

The United Nations has condemned Boko Haram attack on one of its helicopters in the Damasak area of Borno State. The incident, which occurred on July 2, led to the death of two persons including a five-year-old child. The UN, ...

Three countries, the United States of America, India and Ghana, have written respectively to the Federal Government requesting the extradition of 11 Nigerians, a report has revealed. The cases for which the Nigerians are wanted in the foreign countries include ...

The Oyo State Government has condoled with the family of former state governor, Abiola Ajimobi, saying they should be consoled by his forthrightness. The state government expressed the condolence in a letter dated June 29, signed by Governor Seyi Makinde, ...

Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika has said it is almost impossible to achieve physical distancing on flights without hurting the revenue of airlines. He said this during a webinar attended by stakeholders in the aviation sector. The webiner focused on ...

Fans of juju music icon, Ebenezer Obey, were gripped with apprehension on Saturday, July 4, 2020, as news spread on the Internet that he had passed away. Frantic phone calls started being made and received all over the world and ...

Tragedy struck again in the University Town of Nsukka, Enugu State on Saturday as a former local government caretaker committee chairman, Mrs Chinwe Ugwu,  died 18 days after her successor, Patrick Omeje’s demise. Ugwu was said to have died on ...

Tuesday, June 30, 2020, is a day 42-year-old old Aliyu Umaru will not forget in a hurry. It was the day Halima, the first wife of Umaru, severed his manhood with a knife. He groaned in pains as he lay ...

  Items worth millions of naira have been gutted by fire which wreaked havoc on over 100 shops in the popular Marian market in Calabar, late Friday night. The fire, which started from one of the shops in the fruit ...

Every bit of him cuts the image of a taciturn, harmless and easy-going individual. But Ndubisi Anthony is extremely dangerous. He poses as a shoe dealer on Ogbunabali Road, Port Harcourt City, but behind the visible business of buying and ...

Nine Nigerians have missed the special US-Lagos flight arranged to evacuate Nigerians from the United States. They were dropped for failing to present COVID-19 test results. Among them is a family of five, according to Mr Benaoyagha Okoyen, the Consul ...