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WOLE Soyinka was in the news last week for a comment he made to Zainab Badawi on Hardtalk, an interview programme on the British Broadcasting Service, BBC. Badawi started by asking if Soyinka thought his […]

Boko Haram jihadists have killed 14 loggers as they collected firewood in northeast Nigeria, residents and anti-Boko Haram militia have told AFP. The bodies of the men were found at Duwabayi village near the garrison […]

UNLIKE the usual practice of placing party and other considerations above merit in the appointment of ministers, President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet members would emerge strictly on competence, Saturday Vanguard authoritatively gathered. Already, the President is […]

The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Otunba Gani Adams has condemned what he described has desecration of the Yoruba culture, values and tradition by the Olugbo of Ugbo kingdom, Oba Fredrick Obateru Akinruntan. In a statement […]

ABUJA – A civil society group, OurMumuDonDo Movement, has called on the federal government to beam its searchlight on the finances of religious groups operating in the country with a view to making them transparent […]

The FCT High Court sitting in the Maitama area of Abuja has fixed June 11. 2019 for the trial to begin for a former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki, (Rtd) and Bashir Yuguda, in […]

SENATE President, Dr Bukola Saraki has been nominated as an “Ambassador-at-Large” of the International Human Rights Commission (IHRC). In a ststement yesterday from his Media office, Saraki in his new capacity, is expected to lead […]

Workers are still on ground at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport road in Lagos, 48 hours after President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated it. The 10-lane road was among the projects Buhari inaugurated during his one-day working […]

A recently released report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has shown that 740,146 jobs were added between July 2017 and June 2018. According to the Q3 2018 Labor Force Statistics (unemployment & underemployment […]

Twelve million people in Ghana are set to benefit from the launch of the world’s largest drone medical delivery service. Up to 600 drone flights will be made each day, delivering vaccines, blood supplies and […]

As Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State and his wife, Bolanle, prepare to vacate the Government House, Lagos, Mr Seyi Bamigbade Coordinator of Itesiwajueko Ipinle Eko Vanguard, has described the outgoing governor as “a thoroughbred […]

Two senior employees of the oil company Shell have been kidnapped and their police escorts killed in Nigeria’s restive Delta region, police said. The attack took place as the workers were returning from a business […]

Femi Falana, human rights lawyer, has tackled President Muhammadu Buhari for “obeying court orders when he was a military head of state but doing the opposite in a democratic government”. Speaking at a public lecture […]

Chris Ngige, minister of labour, says being a medical doctor since 1979 puts him in a position to know the situation of things in the health sector. In a statement issued by Nwachukwu Obidiwe, his […]

President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Lagos yesterday was without the usually accompanying traffic chaos, thanks to effective measures by the state government. Save for a few roads leading from the Murtala Mohammed International Airport to […]

An evaluation report in Abuja on Monday revealed that a birth registration programme implemented by the National Population Commission (NPopC), with support from UNICEF, has seen the number of children between the ages of zero […]

Presiding Bishop, Living Faith Church, Bishop David Oyedepo has said that the ministry is dreaming having more jets so that all pastors will be flying. Oyedepo, said he was always glad when the media insisted […]