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THE Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has told the Senate Committee on Ethics and Privileges to focus on lawmaking and not usurp the powers of other arms of government by interpreting the laws of the land. […]

Bill Gates, the cofounder of Microsoft, is the world’s fourth-richest person with an estimated net worth of $146 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Here are 11 amazing facts that put his fortune into […]

The General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, on Friday night broke his silence after the demise of his son, Dare Adeboye. Dare had died in his sleep on Tuesday, […]

Everyone from middle-class Indians to migrant workers are getting out of the country as fast as they can as the COVID-19 crisis escalated. On Saturday India logged another over 400,000 new COVID-19 cases and a […]

The Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala Usman, was suspended as part of moves to allow independent audit of the accounts and remittance of the agency, documents seen by PREMIUM TIMES have […]

Aisha Alhassan, former minister of women affairs, is dead. Alhassan, who was popularly known as ‘Mama Taraba’, died on Friday from an unknown illness. In 2018, she resigned from the Buhari administration over doubts of […]

United States authorities have arrested one of its immigration officers, a Nigerian, who allegedly got American citizenship by fraud. The Nigerian, whose original name is Modestus Nwagubwu Ifemembi, got United States citizenship by false name […]

The Nigerian government Friday said it is currently profiling a large number of well-placed Nigerians whose activities have proved reasonable links to financing terrorism. Authorities said that the arrest of an undisclosed number of suspects […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the suspension of Hadiza Bala Usman as the managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA). In a statement signed by Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, on Thursday, the suspension followed […]

The clash which has resulted in unrest in the area has made residents and traders flee for their safety. An eyewitness said the clash began on Thursday when a police officer refused to pay for […]

The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has promised to introduce 500 small new buses to the state by next week Thursday in a bid to provide alternatives to local motorcycles. The Governor said this in […]

Chelsea have beaten Real Madrid 2-0 to set up an all English Champions League final with Manchester City. Chelsea and Madrid had played 1-1 in the first leg of Champions League semi-final in Madrid last […]

Sale Mamman, minister of power, says electricity distribution companies (DisCos) will soon begin the installation of four million free prepaid metres across the country. Speaking to journalists, on Wednesday, after the weekly federal executive council […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has claimed President Muhammadu Buhari and his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan paid ransoms to kidnappers. Obasanjo made the bombshell statement when he received members of Tiv Professionals Group (TPG) at the Olusegun […]

By Emmanuel Okogba Eleven years after his demise, former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua still has a place in the heart of his then vice president, Goodluck Jonathan. Yar’Adua died on 5 May 2010 at the […]

Man in the news, Rev Fr Ejike Mbaka has disclosed that his 24 hours ‘disappearance’ was an incarceration by the Enugu Catholic Bishop, Most Rev Callistus Onaga, whom he accused of conniving with others to […]

By Dennis Agbo Following the altercations between Enugu Catholic priest, Rev Fr Ejike Mbaka, and the Federal government, Vanguard was informed that Bishop of Enugu Diocese, Most Rev. Callistus Onaga, invited Fr. Mbaka to the […]

The Africa Soft Power Project (ASP) will today, May 5, launch its 2nd edition of the Africa Soft Power Series virtual summit with focus on the continent’s creative and cultural industries (CCI). The event, which […]

Opposition Peoples Democratic Party says the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is known for overthrowing democratically elected governments. It also described the allegation by the Presidency that some Nigerians were plotting a forceful and […]