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IBADAN — TEN students of the Polytechnic Ibadan were yesterday rushed to Adeoyo State Hospital and the University College Hospital, UCH, in Ibadan after inhaling poisonous gas in the institution’s laboratory. Vanguard gathered that the affected students, who are from the Department of Science Laboratory Technology, were about to receive a lecture when a minor …
IBADAN— DAYS of utter darkness at the University College Hospital in Ibadan, Oyo State, have now ended as the management of the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, yesterday, restored power to the teaching hospital. The restoration of power to the teaching hospital was confirmed to Vanguard by the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Professor Jesse …
The Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, LAMATA, has commenced the phase implementation upgrade of 91 bus stops as part of its newly launched Quality Bus Corridor, QBC, projects. The initiative, designed to improve public transportation, will integrate key routes into the existing Bus Rapid Transit, BRT, network. LAMATA, which announced this via its official X …
After missing the December 31, 2024 deadline set by the Federal Government to generate 6,000 Megawatts of power, Nigeria’s average hourly electricity generation rose marginally by three percent in January 2025 to 4,681MW from 4,524MW recorded in December, 2025, latest data posted by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has indicated. NERC, in its operational performance …
The Nigerian Army has raised an alarm over the increasing activities of fraudsters impersonating the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Olufemi Oluyede, on social media. In a statement released by Major General Onyema Nwachukwu, Director of Army Public Relations, the public was warned to be vigilant against these impostors. According to the statement, …
Former Minister of Interior and ex-governor of Osun State, Aregbesola, on Saturday received the national leader of New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso at his residence in Lagos. The reason for their meeting was not immediately clear. However, our corespondent learnt it was for discussions around politics. This comes days after Omoluabi Progressives, …
Last week, Nigeria successfully recorded 3 events that greatly excited many citizens. They were obviously events that many people must have wished could continue without stop. One of them was the conviction and imprisonment of Ignatius Uduk, a professor at the University of Uyo (UNIUYO)who was found guilty of electoral malpractices. Uduk, who served as …
The election of Mazi John Azuta-Mbata as the 13th President of Ohaneze Ndi Igbo has drawn both high approbations, and a bit of controversy. The controversy comes largely in the claim from a few quarters about Ikwerre and their Igbo identity. The identity of the Ikwerre as Igbo is not in doubt, and should never be. …
On the backdrop of the inflationary pressure ravaging the economy, experts in the financial sector have said that the plan by the federal government to disburse cash palliatives to vulnerable families across the country is ill-informed and capable of stoking further inflation. They also observed that the employment of the strategy by the previous administration …
It’s nearly 20 years since Mark Steyn wrote a non-fiction book, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It. Steyn, a Canadian newspaper columnist, could not have known that the kicker of this book title, which extolled America as the last bastion of civilisation as we know it, would become the metaphor for …