Issues/Policy

Nigeria has deported the 119 Togolese asylum seekers who have been refugees their whole lives, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNRA) said yesterday. The group of Togolese came to Nigeria in July after Benin Republic, […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has disclosed that worsening level of unemployment, poverty and unresolved conflict across the African continent are major threats responsible for increasing illegal migration from Africa, through Mediterranean, to Europe by Africans, […]

THE executive power of the Federal Government vested in the President of Nigeria by section 5 of the Constitution is a frightfully enormous power. In terms of its extent, it embraces all the eight functions […]

An intellectual group, Ebira Professionals, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency on Ajaokuta Steel Company to save the nation’s economy. Speaking to Vanguard at the end the group’s extra-ordinary […]

Even though the Nigeria Police has yet to advertise vacancies for 10, 000 slots as directed by President Buhari, scammers have begun to play their game. A syndicate now seeks N100, 000 or N150, 000 […]

The Nigerian Unemployed Youth Vanguard (NUYV) yesterday disclosed that it has completed plans to sue the immediate-past Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, over alleged fraud in the Centenary […]

We all have a reason for doing what we do. Otherwise the gruelling hours and the discipline that we have to put into our jobs would be pointless. Most of us spend incredibly long hours […]

Ekiti State Government has proposed a new law that would send kidnappers to life imprisonment. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Idowu Adelusi, said the decision was part of the resolutions […]

Thirty-five persons have been killed, while 104 others were injured in 38 road crashes involving 260 people in Bauchi State between July and August this year. According to the report, a breakdown of the statistics […]

Three persons were feared dead yesterday when fire razed the second floor of a six-storey building at Balogun Market on Lagos Island. The fire, which started at 10am, was caused by an electrical surge. It […]

Fourteen persons died and many others were injured at Ogunmakin on the Lagos – Ibadan expressway in two crashes. The crash on Wednesday  night, involved a trailer carrying 27 people as well as cows and another […]

Port harcourt—A media rights group, Committee to Protect Journalists, CPJ, and Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, have called for the immediate release of  Vanguard newspaper columnist, Donu Kogbara, who was kidnapped […]

In its bid to ensure free flow of traffic across the metropolis, officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, have been directed to adopt the system of booking traffic offenders, rather than apprehending […]

FOLLOWING the death of three persons, when a trailer fell off Ojuelegba bridge last Wednesday, Lagos residents have called on the relevant authorities to regulate the movement of heavy duty trucks in Lagos State, saying […]

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, African statesman, President Julius Kambarage Nyerere of Tanzania strongly advocated what he called “Nation building” for fragile post-Colonial African states. The fragility of these states soon became obvious […]

The leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has, in a way of justifying what many have described as a total waste of its administrations first 100 days in office with little or nothing to […]

IF  only we knew that the entire world was watching us, we would have realised that it is too early to begin to derail the anti-graft war, which we all agreed upon a few months […]

IT has become an alarming trend that protesters have now found the nation’s major automotive expressways as the best places to take their grievances to. These protesters, mostly the youth and women, carry placards. Chanting […]