Tuesday 18 April 2023 Fuel subsidy: FG begins 40% pay rise for workers April ending PDP govs demand Adamawa REC’s trial, Binani sues INEC Melaye’s emergence as gov candidate dangerous, says ex-deputy gov House leadership: Opposition sings discordant tunes, APC woos minority caucus Lagos bishop accused of raping pastors arraigned Flight disruptions as aviation unions […]

  Justice Hamza Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court has refused to vacate an interim order restraining the National Chairman of the Labour Party, Mr Julius Abure, the National Secretary, Farouk Ibrahim and two others from parading themselves as leaders of the party. He rather fixed April 20 to take all applications in […]

  The federal government has appealed to aviation workers to cancel the ongoing strike action, promising that their demands will be met soon. TheCable had reported that the aviation workers commenced a strike on Monday, blocking access roads to both the international and domestic wings of the Murtala Muhammed Airports in Lagos. Prior to Monday’s […]

  The Lagos State Government has arraigned the founder of I Reign Christian Ministry, Bishop Oluwafeyiropo Daniel for allegedly raping two of his church members (names withheld). He was arraigned before Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court sitting in Ikeja. According to the prosecution, the defendant allegedly committed […]

  The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) says it has taken possession of assets belonging to Glano Nigeria Limited over an indebtedness valued at N2.4 billion. In a statement on Monday, Jude Nwauzor, head of corporate communications department of AMCON, said the takeover followed the order of a federal high court in Lagos. Consequently, […]

  Prince Mandela Umegborogu, one of the lawyers of the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has bitterly complained over the alleged relocation of a tuberculosis inmate near Kanu’s cell at the Abuja headquarters of the Department of State Services, DSS. Kanu’s lawyer who spoke with Vanguard after a routine […]

Police in Katsina say they have arrested a 30-year-old Abubakar Abdulaziz, for abducting and burying alive a 3-year-old child, in the Musawa Local Government Area of the state, after demanding a ransom of N800,000. In a statement by the police spokesman, Chief Superintendent, CSP, Gambo Isah, the incident occurred on March 23, when the suspect […]

  British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is under investigation by the parliamentary watchdog over a possible failure to declare shares his wife holds in an agency benefiting from a recent budget, an official said Monday. Parliamentary Standards Commissioner Daniel Greenberg on Thursday launched the probe into shares Akshata Murty holds in childcare agency “Koru Kids”, […]

  Aviation workers, on Monday, blocked access roads to both the international and domestic wings of the Murtala Muhammed Airports in Lagos, in protest of poor working conditions and entitlements. The situation has led to serious gridlock along Airport Road in the Ikeja axis of Lagos, with the entrance of the Murtala Muhammed Airports Terminal […]

  The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has approved the R21 malaria vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India. The Director General of NAFDAC, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, disclosed this on Monday at a press briefing in Abuja. This makes Nigeria the second country to approve the new malaria vaccine developed […]