Beyond the Headlines
A court of appeal in Kaduna has ruled that the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) should not impound foreign rice in the open market or on highways. In a judgment delivered on December 6, a three-member panel of justices led by Ntong Ntong held that existing laws restrict NCS’ enforcement to land borders only. The judgment […]
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has given owners of the 762 plots of land in Maitama II District, Cadastral Zone, A10, Abuja, a fresh two-week ultimatum to pay for their Certificates of Occupancy (C-of-O) or risk final revocation of their allocation. This was disclosed this in a statement on Friday by […]
A 77-year-old retired lecturer from Edinburgh, Nikki MacLeod, has come forward to share her ordeal of falling victim to an elaborate online romance scam involving AI-generated deepfake videos. The scam, which cost her £17,000, highlights the growing sophistication of cybercriminals leveraging artificial intelligence to manipulate unsuspecting victims. Speaking during BBC Scotland’s Scam Safe Week, Nikki […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stakeholders in Imo state has passed a vote of confidence on the new National Secretary of the party, Ude Okoye over his landslide victory at the Appeal Court and also reaffirmed their support to the pdp imo State Leader/ideato rep Ikenga imo ugochinyere while praising the Justices of the Appeal […]
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Friday, ordered MTN Nigeria Communications Limited to pay N15 million damages over the unlawful deduction of a subscriber’s airtime through unsolicited services. The appellate court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of Justices, described as fraudulent, the regular deduction of airtime of customers by the […]
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has sealed a factory and eight shops in Nasarawa State for packaging, selling, and distributing counterfeit rice. Acting on an intelligence report, the agency’s Investigation and Enforcement Taskforce uncovered an operation on Thursday on Thursday involving fake rice products worth an estimate. The factory, […]
A staggering 179 million Nigerians, representing 87% of the population, are living in unhygienic and unclean environments, according to the recently released STONE 2024 report. The report was unveiled during the ‘STONE 2024 Unplugged’ event organized by Clean-Up Nigeria in Abuja. In a statement received by Vanguard on Friday, Prince Ene Baba Owoh, Jr., National […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria has granted temporary permission to Bureau de Change operators, to purchase up to $25,000 in foreign exchange weekly from the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market, which was launched earlier this month. The arrangement will be in effect from December 19, 2024, to January 30, 2025. A circular dated December 19, 2024, […]
OIL marketers lifting the Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, also known as petrol from Dangote Petroleum Refinery, have slashed the price of the product by 11.8 per cent to N939.50 per litre, from N1,060 per litre. As of yesterday, the oil marketers were still selling petrol at N1,060 per litre, based on Vanguard’s checks in Lagos […]
Over 40 million people across West and Central Africa are struggling to feed themselves during the 2024 post-harvest season. A statement released by the United Nations World Food Programme on Friday said the number is set to rise to 52.7 million by mid-2025, including 3.4 million people facing emergency levels of hunger (IPC/CH Phase 4). […]
