Nigeria and Vietnam have agreed on the establishment of a joint commission on trade and strengthening the bilateral ties between the two countries. This was one of the highlights of a high-level meeting between the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, and the Deputy Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Mr. Vuong Dinh Hue, on Wednesday evening, at the ...

Raymond Ozoji, Awka The Police in Anambra state have paraded over 90 suspects for offences ranging from hand-bag snatching, pocket-picking and a host of other crimes in Onitsha and its environs. Parading the suspects at the Area Command Onitsha, the police spokesman in the state SP Haruna Mohammed said the clampdown on the suspects was done on Tuesday and Wednesday ...

Raymond Ozoji, Awka The Anambra state commissioner for information and public enlightenment, Mr C. Don Adinuba,  has described the planned industrial action of the medical consultants association of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital Amaku Awka as unnecessary. Adinuba made the position of the state government clear in a 9-point press statement released to journalists yesterday in Awka. He said ...

Raymond Ozoji, Awka Walid Yusuf, aged 3 and Mustapha Abdulaziz, aged 2 were two infants  allegedly kidnapped from Gombe state by a child-stealing gang and brought to Anambra state for the purpose of selling them off at N750,000 each. The parents of the stolen kids had alerted the police in Gombe state and the police put a public notice across ...

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu There is a new charge of electricity in the entertainment firmament of Anambra State. The maiden edition of the Anambra Glowzz project is billed to shake up the stratosphere on December 23, 2019. An initiative of X-Plore Integrated Services Limited, Anambra Glowzz will showcase the Akuluouno “Think Home” philosophy powering Anambra State as the esteemed “Light of ...

Liverpool have advanced to the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup after upturning a two-goal deficit at Anfield against Arsenal to stretch the 10-goal thriller to penalties. Liverpool started on a good note after former Arsenal boy, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s cross was deflected into his own net by an Arsenal player. It was goal rain thereon as both coaches, who fielded very ...

…says Itse Sagay approached him to vie for Presidency’ National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole, has tackled those who have continued to fault the various diplomatic shuttles of President Muhammadu Buhari, arguing that former President Olusegun Obasanjo travelled more than the incumbent. Oshiomhole who stated this in Abuja also disclosed how the Chairman of the ...

…Sanwo-Olu: ‘Initiative To Standardise Property Market’ Lagos State Government, on Wednesday, launched a Real Estate Transaction portal to curb fraudulent practices in the real estate business. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu unveiled the portal at a stakeholders’ meeting held at Eko Hotel & Suites in Victoria Island. The portal, the Governor said, would secure investments in property market by checkmating unscrupulous dealings ...

A retired Nigerian army brigadier-general and the first governor of Lagos state, Mobolaji Olufunso Johnson, is dead. He was 83. Vanguard quoted family sources as saying Johnson died on Wednesday about 4pm. He served as governor of Lagos between May 1967 and July 1975 during the military regime of Yakubu Gowon.

The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2019 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has reacted to the verdict of the Supreme Court which, today, affirmed the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the election. Below is the full text of Atiku’s statement: “It is said that the Supreme Court is not final ...