Benue Police arrest nine-man gang for cultism, alleged murder
The Benue State Police Command has arrested a nine-man gang for alleged cult related offences and the heinous murder of a 22-year old man (names withheld) in Kashio area of...
Government is not doing anything to curb casualisation in Nigeria – Aberare
Isaac O. Aberare, General secretary, Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers. In this interview with Moses Nosike of Saturday Vanguard, on casualisation in Nigeria, he reveals how indigenous...
APC party slams FG over ‘plot to break ASUU’
All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused the Federal Government of employing “cheap and ludicrous strategy” by using market women, religious leaders and students to put pressure on the Academic...
Lagos State: We’re responding to deportees’ court cases – Lagos govt
LAgos — Lagos State Government, yesterday, said she is responding appropriately to the N1 billion and N20 million suits against it by some of the Igbo indigenes deported out of...
ONITSHA MARKET ON FIRE: Traders Attempt Suicide, Jump Into Raging Inferno
Onitsha traders and small scale industrialists lost goods and properties worth millions of naira yesterday in Onitsha following an early morning fire that gutted the polythene dealers market, Nwaizu Estate,...
Allege Plot to Kiddnap Gov. Amaechi is an Invitation to Anarchy – nPDP
The Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it is alarmed by the report in the Vanguard newspaper of 18th October, 2013 entitled “Alleged plot...
Snowden says he took no secret files to Russia
Edward Snowden says he left all classified documents in Hong Kong and took none to Russia after fleeing from his job at the National Security Agency, The New York Times...
Tension at Paris protest over immigrant expulsions
PARIS (AP) — Thousands of high school students are protesting in Paris over the expulsion of immigrant children and their families. Police have used tear gas against some of the...
U.S. businessman accused of being mob boss in China
BEIJING (AP) — When more than 500 policemen swooped in to arrest 40 suspected gangsters in southern China last year, the alleged kingpin was a Los Angeles businessman who had...
Saudi Arabia rejects Security Council seat
Saudi Arabia has rejected Friday a seat on the U.N. Security Council just hours after it was elected as one of the Council's 10 nonpermanent members. In a statement...