Thursday, 17 April, 2025

Month: February 2022


The Archbishop of Onitsha, Most Rev. Valerian Okeke, has sent a strong-worded letter decrying the teachings of Fr. Magnus Ebere SBV as illegal since the Diocese was never made away of his activities at Nnobi. The Catholic Church in Igbo Read more…


Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has set up a seven-man  committee to investigate the circumstances that led to the recent violence in Oyun Baptist High School Ijagbo in Oyun local government area of the state. The governor asked the committee Read more…


A religious group under the aegis of United Muslim Ummah League (UMUL) has thrown its weight behind the clamour for Igbo presidency come 2023. The Muslim group also said it was high time the other five geo-political zones agree to Read more…


Germany’s Lufthansa has announced that it will cease all flights to and from the Ukrainian capital for a week FILE PHOTO. ©  AP / Martin Meissner Lufthansa will suspend all flights to and from the Ukrainian capital of Kiev for one week, Read more…


In our series of letters from African writers, Nigerian novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani looks ahead to what her country’s election build-up will bring. Nigeria’s T-shirt printers, jingle writers and advertisers are in for a bumper season with the country gearing Read more…


Visiting Kyiv in early 2008, then-President George W. Bush told Ukrainian leader Viktor Yushchenko that it was time that the Eastern European nation join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, a military alliance between the United States and European Read more…


Five persons, including a father and his son, have been reportedly killed by armed herdsmen in an attack on Tse Udeghe community, Mbakpa Council Ward and Ahumen community in Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue State. The attack is Read more…


Telecom Company, MTN, has hinted on rebranding from a telco to a full technology company. The company made this known in a teaser made available to Vanguard, yesterday. The telco says the plan forms part of its ‘Ambition 2025’ strategy, Read more…


Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, AYCF, has issued a strong warning to the All Progressives Congress, APC, People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and other political parties across Nigeria on electing youths into political offices or Read more…


A newly discovered document from March 1991 shows US, UK, French, and German officials discussing a pledge made to Russia that NATO will not expand to Poland and beyond. Its publication by the German magazine Der Spiegel on Friday proves Moscow right Read more…


Russia announced plans to hold missile test launches the day after threatening a military response in the escalating standoff with Ukraine. The Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday that the drills would be held on Saturday to test the combat readiness and Read more…


The apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has condemned the killing of cattle traders and slaughtering of their cows in Abia State. In a statement signed by its secretary-general, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, and made available to journalists in Kaduna Read more…