A World Bank report has revealed that the Nigerian Diaspora community remitted $168.33 billion to the country in the past eight years. The remittance was made even as the foreign investments inflow into the country remained unstable during those years caused by a scarcity of foreign currency which has since led to the free […]
No fewer than 17 people have died following the two explosions that hit a Pakistani counterterrorism facility in the country’s northwest region on Monday. The police said the blasts were caused by electrical shorts and not a “terror attack” as initially suggested. The death toll from explosions in the ammunition depot rose to 17 […]
THERE are indications that the N10 billion additional investments occasioned by the proposed emergence of Nigeria’s Electricity Act could become a mirage, due mainly to some anti-investment provisions in the House of Representatives Electric Power Sector Reform Act, EPSRA. In its version obtained by Vanguard, the House of Representatives imposed some charges, including two […]
Popular American singer, R. Kelly has been moved to a prison in North Carolina where he will serve his prison sentence. The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly – was moved on Wednesday of last week from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago to the Federal Correctional […]
India will overtake China as the world’s most populous country in the coming week, hitting almost 1.43 billion people, the United Nations said Monday. “By the end of this month, India’s population is expected to reach 1,425,775,850 people, matching and then surpassing the population of mainland China,” the UN Department of Economic and Social […]
E. Jean Carroll, 79, says Trump sexually assaulted her in a New York department store and then defamed her after she went public with the allegations years later. Trump, who is facing a slew of legal woes that threaten to derail his 2024 run for a second term in the White House, denies the […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) says the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine given provisional approval by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) still needs to undergo more trials. The trials are to be recommended by WHO. WHO Country Representative to Nigeria Dr Walter Mulombo, during a media parley at the UN […]
President Joe Biden announced Tuesday he is running for re-election in 2024, plunging at the record age of 80 into a ferocious new White House campaign “to finish the job.” “Every generation has a moment where they have had to stand up for democracy. To stand up for their fundamental freedoms,” Biden wrote on […]
A fresh motion on notice seeking to stop the inauguration of Bola Tinubu as Nigeria’s next President on May 29 has been instituted at the Court of Appeal in Abuja. The suit marked CA/CV/259/2023 was instituted by Ambrose Owuru, who is constitutional lawyer and a past presidential candidate who ran for the presidency under […]
The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) has reportedly sealed a property belonging to the embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, in Makurdi, Benue State. It was gathered that Ayu’s property, sealed by the federal government agency, is located at Padre Pio Street, Judges Quarters (ext.). […]
