NO fewer than 50 heavy duty trucks were yesterday set ablaze at the Benue Cement Company, BCC, in Gboko following a sharp disagreement between two factions of the trailer drivers’ union operating within the factory site. Eyewitnesses in Gboko said the crisis erupted at the factory site of the company owned by business mogul, Alhaji […]
NIGER State governor, Dr Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has paid a glowing tribute to former military president, General Ibrahim Baban-gida (IBB) who clocked 70 years on Wednesday. Dr Aliyu said IBB’s life was a testimony to the power of good leadership and purposeful living. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary (CPS) Mallam Danladi Ndayebo, […]
Business activities were, on Wednesday, disrupted in the electronics market in Onitsha, as traders protested the killing of one of their members by the police. The incident, according to eyewitness account, happened when policemen allegedly shot at a trader who was fleeing from police, resulting to his death on the spot, as traders at the […]
THE prolonged negotiation between the Federal Government and the organised labour ended on a happy note late, on Tuesday, when the Federal Government announced that the minimum pay in the federal civil service and public service will be N18, 900, even as it signed what it hoped will be the final agreement with labour on […]
An unspecified number of candidates who were in Jos, the Plateau State capital, for the post-UTME examination organised by the University of Jos were alleged to have been killed by hoodlums in the wake of fresh violence in the state. Vanguard learnt that some of the candidates unaware of the fresh hostilities were attacked as […]
Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomole on Tuesday said the N18,000 National Minimum Wage Act signed into law by President Goodluck Jonathan in March, 2011, as the new monthly salary for workers as against the old N5,500 is not a convenient law owing to the challenges it posed to state governments across the Federation. He was, […]
Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has clamped a one-year ban on Imo State FA following a match fixing scandal. The Disciplinary Committee had over the weekend, accused the Imo FA of collaborating with the state’s amateur club, Imo United FC, to fix the match between it and the visiting Akpabuyo FC of Cross Rivers to enable […]
A deadly explosion was yesterday averted by the police in Borno when a 25-year-old suicide bomber with heavily wired Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) was gunned down by policemen at the entrance of the state headquarters of the police in Maiduguri. The bomber had defiled attempts to check his Honda Accord car at the command’s gate […]
There was palpable tension in Jos, at the weekend, following the gruesome murder of a commercial motorcyclist by some unknown persons at Eto Baba in Jos North Local Government Area of the state. The corpse of the okada rider identified as Kamilu Yahaya, was discovered in a stream in Eto Baba. It was learnt that […]
AWKA- IRATE youths at Governor Peter Obi’s home town, Agulu, in Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State, weekend, burnt down the police post in the town following the killing of a middle–aged man by a policeman at a check-point. An eye-witness said the man, who hailed from Awgbu in Orumba North Local Government Area, […]
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