Friday, 17 January, 2025

Month: January 2022


Commissioner of Police , Lagos State Police Command, AIG Hakeem Odumosu, yesterday, advised those who are not satisfied with the autopsy and Toxicology repots on the late Sylvester Oromoni ,to visit the Coroner Inquest which  will begin today in Lagos, Read more…


Senator Theodore Orji representing Abia Central has given reasons he is fully in support of the 2023 presidential ambition of former Senate President Senator Anyim Pius Anyim. The former Abia Governor who spoke with Vanguard in Umuahia said that Anyim Read more…


Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday raised the alarm that many Nigerian youths “are enlisting in violent groups and kidnap gangs” owing to unemployment and the inability of government to manage the country’s population. Obasanjo, who was speaking at the Oyewusi Read more…


About seven gunmen yesterday abducted a retired Deputy Comptroller of Nigeria Customs Service in Obate Village in Asa Local Government Area of Kwara State. THISDAY checks revealed that the incidents happened yesterday morning when the senior retired customs officer was Read more…


Graphic details of attacks on media in Kazakhstan described by Russian foreign ministry as it blasts OSCE’s inaction The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe has shown “shameful” lack of reaction to targeted persecution of journalists in Kazakhstan, the Read more…


France’s foreign minister said on Friday that Russia was trying to bypass the European Union by holding talks directly with the United States over Ukraine. Talks between US and Russian diplomats will begin in Geneva on Monday after weeks of tensions over Russian Read more…


An estimated 200 people or more have been killed in villages in Nigeria’s Zamfara state during deadly reprisal attacks by armed bandits following military air strikes on their hideouts this week, residents said on Saturday. Residents gained access to the Read more…


The funeral of the late Patriarch Christopher Anajekwu Ekwulugo (Okaonye Egbunaya) has been turned into a never-witnessed spectacular festival to commemorate the demised. The precision with which the host and hostesses met the guests simultaneously with sitting arrangement, any imaginable Read more…


President Muhammadu Buhari and governors of the All Progressive Congress (APC) will meet Sunday to decide a definite date for the conduct of the party’s national convention. The party is hoping that a date in February is still feasible as Read more…


The corpse of a woman has gone missing from a mortuary in Ebonyi State, leaving relatives stunned. The burial could not hold as scheduled due to the disappearance of the corpse.The body of the late Madam Grace Orjiokoro was deposited Read more…


The Coalition of Northern Groups, (CNG) has reacted to the Proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB’s ban on the consumption of ‘Fulani cows’ (beef) in South-East, calling for a total boycott of all businesses operated by the Igbo all over Read more…


China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday rejected suggestions that Beijing was luring African countries into debt traps by offering them massive loans, dismissing the idea as a “narrative” pushed by opponents to poverty reduction. Wang, speaking ahead of touring Read more…