Nigeria Breaking News
Ahead of the 2027 general elections, over 300 members of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) in Kawo Ward, Kaduna North Local Government Area, have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Receiving the new members, a Permanent Member of the Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Dr. …
Suspected jihadist insurgents have killed eight soldiers in northern Benin, which has seen an increase in deadly Islamist attacks, military sources told AFP on Friday. In recent months northern Benin has seen an uptick in such assaults on the army, which the government often blames on Islamist militants seeking to extend their reach from neighbouring …
Tuesday’s declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State by President Bola Tinubu has rekindled the quest for self-determination by the Ijaw ethnic nationality in the Niger Delta. Prof Benjamin Okaba, president of Ijaw National Congress, INC, the Ijaw apex socio-cultural group, told Vanguard: “For Ijaw people, we are not too happy because we …
Troops attached to the convoy of Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State successfully repelled an attempted Boko Haram terrorist attack along the Buni Gari-Buni Yadi road on Wednesday, March 12, 2025. According to Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency publication, an unconfirmed number of terrorists were killed during the fight that ensued between the troops and the …
The Toyota Motor Company announces on March 11, 2009 that it has sold more than 1 million gas-electric hybrid vehicles in the U.S. under its six Toyota and Lexus brands. The sales were led by the Prius, the world’s first mass-market hybrid car, which was launched in Japan in October 1997 and introduced in America in July …
Conference League favourites Chelsea took control of their last-16 tie against Copenhagen with a narrow first-leg win in Denmark. After failing to register a first-half shot on target, Enzo Maresca’s side took the lead within a minute of the restart. Marc Cucurella, on for the injured Malo Gusto, ran down the left and pulled the …
Senator Ireti Kingibe, representing the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has countered Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s claim about the seating reassignment in the Senate. Senator Natasha recently sparked a controversy in the Red Chamber when the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, reallocated her seat. Her reaction to the seating arrangement sparked drama in the Senate during plenary as …
THE Chief Medical Director of the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Professor Jesse Abiodun Otegbayo has said he met a huge energy debt of N300m when he assumed office in 2019 dismissing the claims that the energy problem started when he got to office. He disclosed this to Sunday Vanguard yesterday. According to him, the energy …
As England and Barcelona goalkeeper Ellie Roebuck sips her flat white in the Spanish sunshine outside her favourite coffee shop, she looks like a player who has the world at her feet. But this is a very different picture from 12 months ago. Last February she was told that, at the age of 24, she had …