•Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah Liverpool were knocked out of the Europa League by Atalanta with the Italian side reaching the semi-finals 3-1 on aggregate yesterday. Atalanta are in the last four of a European competition for the first time since 1988, despite Mohamed Salah’s early penalty giving Liverpool a 1-0 second leg win, thanks to their [&h...
Monarchs, retired security officers, clerics, and activists in the Niger Delta, yesterday, urged the federal government to direct the Army to withdraw its siege to the embattled Okuama community in Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State to avert losses of more lives and douse tension in the oil region. They also asked the criminals [...
•Bags of cement Nigerians, especially the low and middle-income earners, have cried out over the present high cost of cement saying they will no longer be able to own their houses in the country. This is just as the Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria, REDAN, declared that unless a sustainable solution was found to […]
•Ben Obi Chief Ben Obi served as the Political Adviser in the office of former National Security Adviser, General Aliyu Gusau. He also served as the Presidential Adviser on inter-party affairs to President Goodluck Jonathan. A People’s Democratic Party, PDP, leader, Obi, in this interview with Vanguard, discusses the state of the nation and hi...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate has again thrown out the controversial retirement bill that seeks to extend the retirement of the National Assembly staff to 65 years of age or 40 years of service, whichever comes first and across the 36 State Houses of Assembly. Majority of Senators heavily opposed the bill when it was brought […]
President Bola Tinubu will today depart Abuja for Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, to participate in the 37th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union (AU) Heads of State and Government. A statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Public, Ajuri Ngelale, reads: “President Bola Tinubu will, on Thursday, February 15, depart [&...
•Gov Radda Gov. Dikko Radda of Katsina State today summoned an expanded emergency security council meeting to find solutions to the current economic hardship and insecurity in the state. The expanded security council meeting included heads of security agencies, Emirs of Katsina and Daura, relevant government officials, religious leaders, trade...
•Binani and Fintiri The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) of Adamawa State in the 2023 governorship election, Senator Aisha Dahiru Binani, and her party seeking to unseat Umar Ahmadu Fintiri as the duly elected governor of Adamawa State. The Supreme Court, in a unanimous ...
•Amotekun A body of Yoruba youth groups, Yoruba Youth Socio-Cultural Association (YYSA), yesterday, decried pervasive and pervading kidnappings in the South-West. This was contained in a statement signed by Olalekan Hammed (National President) and Olawale Ajao (National Secretary) and made available to our correspondent in Ibadan, the Oyo Stat...
•Patrick Tonye-Cole and Governor Siminalayi Fubara The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal of Tonye Cole and the All Progressives Congress (APC) against the election of Siminalayi Fubara as Rivers State governor for lacking in merit. Affirming Fubara as the duly elected governor of Rivers State, the court held that the appellant did not pro...