By Erelu Bisi Fayemi ‘I want a Nigeria safe for all women and girls. A country that nurtures the girl child to a meaningful future’. ‘A Nigeria where the voice of girls and women are heard. Where women and girls are seen as part of the development and growth of the nation. Where women are…

President Muhammadu Buhari has been advised to consider the immediate approval of dredging of the nation’s land borders to President Muhammadu Buhari serve as barrier with her neighbouring countries in order to proffer long lasting solution to the smuggling of illegal items to Nigeria. This, according to a statement signed by the National Coordinator of…

Allen Onyema By Nwafor Sunday On the 23rd of November, 2019, Allen Ifechukwu Athan Onyema, the Chairman of Air Peace was charged with 27 counts of money laundering by one U.S. Attorney Byung J. “BJay” Pak. Mr. Byung said that Onyema moved more than $20 million from Nigeria through United States bank accounts in a…

President Muhammadu Buhari By Marie-Therese Nanlong Again, the federal government has been urged to consider the option of allowing the establishment of State/regional police which would aid in combating the myriads of security challenges facing the nation. The Order of the Knights of St. Mulumba, KSM, Nigeria made the call in Jos, during its just-concluded…

MAGU Soni Daniel, Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has raised the alarm that some unnamed corrupt elements are out to smear its Chairman, Ibrahim Magu by sponsoring a series of protests against him. A source in the agency confirmed to Vanguard that the protests are to be spearheaded by those the agency calls…

Governor Emmanuel Udom, of Akwa Ibom state Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State has restated his administration’s commitment to achieving 24 hours electricity for all households in the state by 2021. Emmanuel said his drive for uninterrupted power supply caused the state government to launch “Power for all by the year 2021”, inaugurated by…

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari last night told a former Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Alexander Ogomudia (rtd) that democratic path was the way to follow in order to make a change in the country and not through violence.  President Buhari was reacting  to a statement credited to Chief Ogomudia where he allegedly stated that ‘Nigeria…

dominates social media space By John Egbokhan Odion Ighalo   No other Nigerian football player has dominated the social media space as AFCON 2019 top goalscorer, Odion Ighalo. Since retiring from international football after the curtain fell on the 2019 AFCON in Egypt in July , which meant he was no longer available to be…

By Marie-Therese Nanlong Over 50 vulnerable pregnant women, lactating mothers and teenage girls in Plateau were at the weekend gifted with hygiene kits to improve their sanitary needs and curb the spread of disease in their communities. The beneficiaries, drawn from the Muslim community in Jos North local government area of the State got items…

By Oluwarotimi Olutayo Back in 2010, rumors went abound that in a secluded place in Ibadan, the biggest city in Africa, children were being killed because their parents or the community at large considered this children as evil, mainly because they are twins or because they are born with physical or mental disabilities. The many…