After the forceful exit of Fulani herders from Igangan in Ibarapa North local government area of Oyo state by youths in the town, a mandatory curfew has been imposed by Oro worshippers. The curfew, Vanguard gathered, will expire by 12 noon on Sunday. Igangan Development Advocates (IDA), Mr Oladokun Oladiran, […]
The Federal Government planned to contribute $350 million to the ECOWAS Security Fund out of which $80million (over N30.5 billion) would be spent on the counter insurgency campaign in the NorthEast. The pledge was made towards the $1billion ECOWAS Regional Security Fund set up in 2019 but the amount so […]
No fewer than eight persons including students of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, in Ondo state were feared crushed to death by an articulated truck. The report had it that ten others who sustained serious injuries have been rushed to a nearby hospital for medical attention. It was learnt […]
The National Assembly has postponed the resumption of plenary earlier scheduled for Tuesday, January 26, to Tuesday, February 9, 2021. This was confirmed on Saturday in a statement signed by the Clerk of the National Assembly, Olatunde Ojo. It explained that the postponement was to enable members of the All […]
One Mr. Happyman has been arrested over an alledge murder of his girlfriend, Orie Evusi who was declared missing four days ago. The police who launched investigation said the deceased left her home on Sunday January 17, 2021 and never returned. According to a source Orie’s boyfriend who is a […]
The Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed has expressed that the sales of government’s assets will be beneficial for Nigerians and the economy. The Minister on Friday made this remark during an interview. She stated during the interview that some government assets are currently moribund and provide little or no value […]
A 32-year-old housewife named Tolulope Faleye has been dragged before a Magistrates’ Court, Osogbo, Osun State, for allegedly stealing a Toyota Corolla Verso car, valued N1,800,000 car. According to the prosecutor, Mr Fagboyinbo Abiodun, he said, the accused person committed the purported crime on March 5, 2020 at No 5B […]
Katsina State Police Command has arrested four suspected rapists for sodomising five boys between the ages of 6 and 10. Spokesperson of the command, SP Isah Gambo, who confirmed this in a statement on Thursday, said two other suspected rapists were arrested for raping 5 and 11 year-old girls. Gambo […]
… demands N20m compensation … I want N5m as compensation for psychological trauma I suffered from police- commercial driver appeals to panel As the Osun Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality, Human Rights Violations and Related Extra Judicial Killings resumed proceedings on Thursday, one of the petitioners, Mr. Amos […]
President Muhammadu Buhari ordered yesterday that no subscriber should be blocked from telecom operators’ networks till February 9, 2021. Subscribers, who pleaded for further extension, would have had their lines blocked January 19, being the initial deadline for them to link their SIMs to their National Identity Number, NIN. On […]