A Benniose woman was on Friday raped and slaughtered in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital by some suspected thugs. It was learnt that the woman, 50, simply identified as Mama Friday, was gang-raped by the suspected rapists in her bedroom and later killed. Narrating the incident, an eye witness told Vanguard that the suspected thugs…
Union Bank, on Monday, sacked another 137 staff in continuation of the ongoing downsizing of its workforce as a result of the current reform in the banking sector. The affected staff were disengaged, following decision on outstanding disciplinary cases, while some were sanctioned for various acts of misdemeanour. Meanwhile, the bank has recruited another 150…
Yesterday, we alerted the public about intelligence reports at our disposal indicating that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State and the Grassroot Development Initiative (GDI), the political machinery of PDP chieftain/Supervising Minister for Education, Barrister Nyesom Wike, had concluded plans to disrupt our membership registration exercise, which started yesterday, and to cause physical…
Widow of Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu, Bianca, has been named as the National Leader of the crisis ridden All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA. This decision was taken on Thursday by the faction of the party, led by Maxi Okwu. Okwu’s faction of the party said on Thursday, rising from its National Executive Committee meeting, NEC,…
No fewer than 20 persons were feared dead on Thursday in Plateau State by some gunmen. The latest attack occurred in Mavou village area of the state under Wade local govrre area. The invaders stormed inhabitants of the village at about 2am on Thursday and burnt down about 10 houses. Police spokesperson in the state,…
The police authorities have eventually bowed to pressure and have redeployed the controversial Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, Mbu Joseph Mbu to the Abuja Police Command. His redeployment came weeks after leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, ordered their members at the National Assembly to block all Executive Bills pending when the Federal…
Report reaching this office confirms that the State Security Service, SSS, has held the duo of Moji Danisa and Ogbeni Olawale Dawodu, publishers of wave making weekly political tabloid, Paparazzi, after they showed up at the office of the security agency office in Abuja on Thursday morning for questioning. The SSS, through one of its…
It has been a bloody 48 hours in the northern part of the country. No fewer than 82 people were killed in three attacks on Monday and Tuesday in Plateau, Kaduna and Yobe States. Twenty people, including a policeman, were killed by bandits in Yobe State; 32 were killed by gunmen in Plateau and 30…
The Federal Government, through the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, disclosed that traders, farmers and other artisans in the country depend on the passage of the 2014 Appropriation Bill to survive. Addressing State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Maku said the directive by leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to its members…
Going by a report recently published by National Daily newspaper, the controversial Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has been fingered in a money laundering fraud. The amount involved in the scam is said to be $8 billion. MTN and Stanbic IBTC bank were also implicated in the scam. Read the…