The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Kabba-Bunu Ijumu Federal Constituency in the last general elections, Hon. Olaiya Michael Olobatoke, is dead.   The family confirmed this in a statement on his Facebook handle. “With pain in our hearts but gratitude to God Almighty, we announce the passing …

The Organisation of African Instituted Churches (OAIC) has called on the federal government to increase the salaries of Nigerian workers to alleviate the suffering arising from the removal of the fuel subsidy and the increase in price of petroleum products. The president of OAIC Nigeria Region, Elder Israel Akinadewo, made …

The battle for the National Chairmanship of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has now been narrowed down to former governors of Kano and Nasarawa states, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje and Senator Tanko Al-Makura, respectively, Vanguard has learned. Reports gathered that some stakeholders from the North Central have put up a …

An Anambra State pupil, Mmesoma Ejikeme, who forged her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination result, appeared on Wednesday before an ad hoc committee of the House of Representatives in Abuja. The teenager, who had admitted to manipulating her score from 249 to 362, thus parading herself as the 2023 UTME top …

A former governor of Nasarawa State, Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, has laid to rest the lingering speculations of existence of rift between him and his successor, Governor Abdullahi Sule. Al-Makura, who is also the immediate past senator representing Nasarawa-South senatorial district at the upper chamber of the National Assembly, said the …

Gombe State Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya has approved the constitution of a 25-man committee for the assessment of grazing, forest and game reserves as well as cattle routes in the state. Secretary to the state government Prof Ibrahim Abubakar Njodi, who conveyed the governor’s approval, disclosed that the committee is …

Appointments undertaken by federal ministries, departments and agencies under the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari are to be probed. To this effect, the House of Representatives, on Wednesday, is to set up an ad hoc committee which will ask the Federal Character Commission to make available to it details …

The immediate past president of a pressure group made up of different professionals in the aviation sector, otherwise known as Aviation Round Table Safety Initiatives (ASRTI), Dr Gbenga Olowo has emphasised the need for the domestic airlines to form two major carriers in order to be stronger and relevant in …

David Hundeyin, a Nigerian independent journalist, has been detained in Harare Airport, Zimbabwe. Mr Hundeyin raised the alarm over his detention at the airport in a series of tweets on Wednesday night. “I landed in Zimbabwe earlier today, and I have been detained at Harare Airport inside a smelly locked …

Ekiti State former First Lady, Erelu Bisi Fayemi on Tuesday got inducted into the Nigerian Women Hall of Fame of the Mariam Babangida National Centre for Women Development (MBNCW). The Nigerian First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu who was the Special Guest of Honour at the event, which also featured the …