A Catholic Priest, Reverend Father Ferdinand Fanen Ngugban, has been shot dead in Katsina-Ala Local Government Area of Benue State. Daily Trust gathered that Fr. Ferdinand Ngugban of St. Augustine Aye Twar parish in Katsina Ala LGA was killed by bandits who raided the community and set many houses on fire. The Council Chairman of […]
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a 24-year-old woman named Queen Jonathan for alleged involvement in a Bitcoin scam in Oghara, Delta State. Ms. Jonathan was also arrested for internet fraud on Friday 26, 2012 by men from the Benin Zonal office of the commission. A statement by the spokesman […]
Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, has said the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), began his yearly medical trip to London even before he came into office as Nigeria’s president in 2015. Shehu said this on Tuesday while addressing newsmen at the departure wing of the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja, just after his principal departed […]
The Abia State government has announced the death of its Deputy Chief of Staff, Chief Ukpai Agwu, who passed in the early hours of Tuesday after a brief illness. A statement signed by the Commissioner for Information, John Kalu, made available to Vanguard , described the state governor, Okezie Ikpeazu as “shock” as he mourns […]
Men of the Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Police have arrested a 25-year-old man, Elisha James for forcefully having carnal knowledge of a four-year-old daughter of his co-tenant (name-withheld). The suspect, according to the command image maker, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who resides at Mokore road area of Warewa was arrested on the 29th of March […]
Senate President Ahmad Lawan has dismissed a tweet that quoted him as saying that he won’t mind a constitutional amendment to allow unlimited term of office for the president if President Muhammadu Buhari wishes to remain in office beyond 2023. Lawan, in a statement by his media aide, Ola Awoniyi, said he never made such […]
The FCT police command has arrested Azubuike Osakwe, a carpenter who once worked with a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode. Osakwe, it was learnt, was arrested on Sunday shortly after returning from church. He had in February accused Fani-Kayode of arresting him at different times in 2019 and refusing to pay for his labour. […]
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said that the Federal Government has borrowed about $2.5billion for the construction of a railway linking Lagos to Ibadan. He stated this during an exclusive interview on Channels Television’s Newsnight which aired on Monday night. “If you look at the whole total cost, it will be $2.5 to […]
By Frederick Nwabufo I strongly believe that even if by some stroke of kismet, a referendum is held on the niggling question of Nigeria’s rupturing today, most Nigerians will vote to remain in this comely country. A majority of Nigerians only desire better a nation, not a divided one. The paroxysms of secessionist agitations here […]
The National Security Adviser, Major-General Babagana Monguno (retd.), on Tuesday quoted President Muhammadu Buhari as directing the nation’s service chiefs to identify masterminds of banditry and kidnapping as well as the sponsors with a view to taking them out. The NSA told State House correspondents that Buhari handed down the directive at a meeting he […]
