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50% of Nigerians at risk of heart diseases

AS Nigeria, yesterday,joined the rest of the world to mark the 2013 World Oral Health Day, Lagos State Government and the Nigerian Dental Association, NDA, raised alarm that over 50 percent of...

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Mikel, Martins plot Harambee’s fall

Chelsea star John Mikel Obi and newly acquired Saunders of America striker in the MLS have been businesslike since they joined the Super Eagles camp Tuesday evening.

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Ex stars unite in Warri for AYAC 2013

The city of Warri was a sight to behold yesterday as far as track and field is concerned in Nigeria. Many of those who had a hand in building the sport and raised it to the level that placed Nigeria in...

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Investors pay N73bn for PHCN successor firms

ELEVEN bidders for the successor companies of Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, have paid $469, 031,940.46 (about N73,638,014,580 billion), representing the mandatory 25 percent of the offer of...

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Unjust disparity between poly, varsity graduates in Nigeria

Most secondary school leavers seeking admission into higher institutions in Nigeria would hardly choose polytechnics as their preferred institution, and it is easily understood why it is so. Why...

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‘Our members are hungry, our members must not be hungry’

OUR quotation above was taken from the impromptu speech made at the weekend, by Godswill Akpabio, the Akwa Ibom governor, during the South-South leg of the PDP’s reconciliation tour. As newspapers all...

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Bullion van driver in court for alleged theft of N17.3m

A 45-year-old bullion van driver, Olusegun Fatoki, was yesterday, arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate Court, for allegedly stealing N17.3 million, property of Guaranty Trust Bank.

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Gunmen kill tea vendor in Maiduguri

Violence erupted again, in Maiduguri, the BornoState capital, yesterday, as gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect shot dead a tea vendor (name withheld) at his Maduganari T-junction...

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3 killed in intra-communal clash

Three people were feared dead while several others were injured, yesterday, during a communal clash at Bayeku in Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area of Ikorodu, Lagos State.

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Teacher, wife die after a meal of pigeon pea

A sumptuous dinner has reportedly sent a couple to their grave in Arigidi Akoko in Akoko North-West Local Government area of OndoState.

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Boat mishap: We were in water for three days – Survivor

Twenty-seven people were rescued in the boat mishap, which occurred at Malabo, 40 nautical miles off the Calabar water ways on March 15, Vanguard has learnt.

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Kano explosions: Senate advises Jonathan, lampoons Kwankwaso over indifference

HE Senate,yesterday,condemned Monday’s multiple bomb blasts in Kano which claimed many lives, leaving others injured and property worth millions of naira destroyed and urged President Goodluck Jonathan...

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Jonathan, PDP plotting APC’s fall – Tinubu

NATIONAL leader of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, yesterday, accused President Goodluck Jonathan and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of plotting to destabilise the newly formed...

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Bomb blast: Igbo in Kano on 3-day mourning

KANO — The Igbo community in Kano, Wednesday, commenced a three day mourning over last Monday’s bomb attack at Sabon Gari bus Park which claimed more than 70 lives who were mostly people from the...

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PDP, DPP bicker over vacant Ukwuani seat in Delta House

Asaba—FOLLOWING a recent judgment by a Federal High Court, Asaba, Delta State, declaring the Ukwuani constituency seat in Delta State House of Assembly vacant, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and...

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Nsukka elders angry over Ekweremadu’s guber posters

Nsukka —The Nsukka Elders in Enugu State, Thursday, frowned at the sudden emergence of the Deputy Senate President, DSP, Chief Ike Ekweremadu’s posters for the 2015 governorship race, saying, it was...

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My passion for music is waning – Baba Dee

I don’t know. It’s just that I’m getting less passionate with music but for some funny reason, my music is sounding a lot different and people are still appreciating it. But in all, it’s very...

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Four gadgets that attract women

With the just concluded International Day for Women throwing up the challenge of bridging the technology divide between men and women genders in the society, GlamTech has looked inwards to find most...

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I’m a victim of Okorocha’s one term agreement – Agbaso

The embattled deputy governor of Imo State, Mr. Jude Agbaso in an interview responds to the allegation that he obtained a N458 million bribe from a road contractor in the state. He asserts that the...

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My Oga at the top: New media lessons for the older generation

The new media seems to be bringing a contrasting dimension to the sage that an old man sees farther sitting down, than a young man at the top of a tree. Today, what the average young person sees on a...

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