vanguard news update

(Xinhua/NAN) Police on Thursday arrested an unqualified medical practitioner accused of infecting dozens of people with HIV in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh. HIV The police said the suspect Rajendra Yadav who went into hiding following the detection of HIV infected patients during a...

By Elizabeth Uwandu SPECIAL Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Social Protection, Mrs. Maryam Uwais, has revealed that over 500,000 unemployed graduates will be empowered in the N-Power programme designed to engage unemployed graduates,while 5.5 million school children will enjoy free meal...

By Simon Ebegbulem & Gabriel Enogholase BENIN—THE rustication of five students by the management of University of Benin, UNIBEN, has taken a new twist as the affected students have rejected the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Farade Orumwense’s conditional offer to lift their suspension. File photo...

By Dennis Udoma UYO – Unknown gunmen have reportedly kidnapped the Headmistress of Ikot Udobia Primary School in Ukanafun Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. Chairman of Ukanafun Local Government, Mr Uko Idiong broke the news to Vanguard this morning during security meeting with the...

Popular Abuja Club, ‘Switch Nightlife’ has announced date for its reopening (The Rebirth) and the unveiling ceremony of its new Partner. Mallam Yankee The club that is currently situated in the heart of Abuja, and inside Dabras Hotels on Aminu Kano Crescent-Wuse 2, has been test-running since...

By Paul Olayemi SAPELE—Goods and valuables worth millions of Naira were razed by fire in Amukpe area of Sapele in Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State. The fire, according to a resident, Mrs AKpevwe Michael, affected 12 rooms at 112, Warri-Sapele Road and about nine shops at … Read...

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau released a video Tuesday pledging to continue attacks days after Nigeria’s military repeated that the jihadist group had been defeated. This screen grab image taken on January 2, 2018 from a video released on January 2, 2018 by Islamist group Boko Haram shows...

By Joseph Erunke ABUJA-THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has extended registration for 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. The board which announced the extension in a statement, Tuesday evening, said the registration will go on till February 11, 2018...

An Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Tuesday, ordered the remand of three men- Samuel Farotimi, Sunday Ajimoko and Tayo Ilugbo, for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl. Rape The defendants- Farotimi, 27, Ajimoko, 40 and Ilugbo, 30, whose addresses were not provided, are facing a two-count...

*Open up to Ogoriba-led PANDEF delegation * Plead with FG to rescind SPDC’s operational licence *We’re unwavering in devt of Kula, Belema host communities – SPDC OFFOIN-AMA inhabitants and other communities in oil-rich Kula Kingdom, Akuru-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State, have accused...

THE Efeyota of Okpe Kingdom, Delta State, Chief Isaacs Tebu, has questioned the claim by Uvwie Kingdom to the traditional possession of Ohorhe villages, saying the joint committee inaugurated by the monarchs of both Urhobo kingdoms to determine the title produced an inconclusive report. Tebu, a...

…ACTSON debuts to tackle problems By Chioma Obinna Surgeons in the field of cardiovascular and thoracic medicine have raised the alarm over poor access to treatment and services in Nigeria, lamenting that only 2 per cent have access to treatment abroad while 98 percent stay at home and …...

By Chidi Nkwopara, OWERRI. Ochie Igbo, a socio-cultural organization of young Igbo intellectuals, have kicked against the construction of a rail line from Daura to Maradi in Niger Republic, “when the rail lines in the old Eastern Region dilapidated and disused”. Rail The group made their...

A Nigerian mum, who delivered quadruplets prematurely in Britain and who has racked up a bill of £500,000 in one of the largest hospitals, said she will be unable to pay. Priscilla, Nigerian mother of quadruplets. The 43-year-old, named only as Priscilla, went into labour three months early …...

Boko Haram fighters stormed a village in northeast Nigeria and murdered two civilians, while six people were killed in an attack in northern Cameroon, a local resident and security sources told AFP on Monday. Nigerian Army The attacks came as Nigeria’s military again maintained the jihadists had...

Public prosecutors in Germany demanded a life sentence on Monday for a Muslim man who murdered his wife after she converted to Christianity. If found guilty, the man who like his wife comes from Afghanistan, could face more than 20 years in prison. Muslim Public prosecutor Oliver Moessner …...

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA – Maryam Sanda, who was remanded in prison custody for allegedly killing her husband who is the son of former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bilyamin Bello, on Monday, told the trial court that she is three months pregnant. *Love gone sour: … Read...

By Daud Olatunji ABEOKUTA—SUSPECTED Fulani herdsmen have again attacked some communities in Ketu Local Council Development Area in Ogun State three days after a stakeholders’ meeting was held with the state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu. Vanguard gathered that the Police boss held a...

THE Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB ,has decried what it called the gross insensitivity of those at the helm of national security affairs over the alleged arrest of Mr. Bur Dooior, the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, in charge of Gboko Police Station, Benue State. IPOB in a statement …...

I’m shocked Police released him—Husband He’s not Fulani; we’re investigating—Police By Dayo Johnson Akure—A 28-year-old mother of two, Florence Godday, escaped death by the whiskers in Igbo Abo community in Akure North area of Ondo State, as a herdsman attacked her with a machete and attempted...