The African Wrestling Championship tagged Port Harcourt 2018 has closed successfully on Sunday with Nigeria picking top spots in the male, women and junior categories. Winners emerging in all the categories of the competition, included Algeria, South Africa, Egypt, Tunisia and Tunisia. Athletes contested for trophies under Greco-Roman and... Read more
From Dianabasi Effiong The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has officially released the cash entitlements of all teams that participated at the 5th African Nations Championship in Morocco, with second –placed Nigeria to earn the sum of $400,000 and not $750,000 as widely touted. Official figures have... Read more
From Dianabasi Effiong There were emotional scenes as Miss Kechi Okwuchi, a survivor of the 2005 Sosoliso plane crash that claimed many lives in 2005 visited the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd (SPDC) to express gratitude for the medical and financial assistance the company rendered... Read more
A delegation of the Steering Committee of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights Initiative (VPI) led by the current Chair, Mr. Ronald Roosdorp of the Netherlands Government will arrive in Nigeria on Sunday, February 11, 2018 for a five-day working visit. Other members of the delegation would... Read more
All Progressives Congress (APC) Youths from Nigeria’s six geo-political zones on Friday described the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun as one of the most competent and honest politicians in the world. “Oyegun is an impeccably honest man, certainly a rare variety among politicians today. Even the... Read more
… Emerges Vanguard Newspapers’ ‘Governor of the Year’, Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has affirmed that his administration has succeeded in laying a solid foundation for peace and development to continually thrive in the state. Governor Dickson made the assertion on Sunday during a Thanksgiving service to mark... Read more
Foremost African financial institution, Guaranty Trust Bank plc, has launched the Dusty Manuscript Contest to give budding writers the opportunity to win publishing deals for their finished, but yet-to-be published, manuscripts. Organized in partnership with publishing houses Okadabooks and Farafina, the contest is part of the Bank’s YouREAD initiative... Read more
The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, have expressed shock at the donation of N200 million of State’s funds to victims of killings of the Fulani herdsmen massacres in Benue State by Governor Nyesom Wike “whereas victims of killings and criminality in various parts of Rivers State... Read more
Governor Dickson of Bayelsa State, Hon Seriake Dickson on Thursday identified the politicisation of crime and criminality as the bane of security in the Niger Delta and Nigeria as a whole. According to a press statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Francis Ottah Agbo, the Governor... Read more
By High Chief Edem Effiom Edem Duke Calabar, NIGERIA The Reality of Our Situation In the last few weeks the word or term industrialization has become synonymous with our politicking in the South Senatorial Zone as Asuquo Ekpeyong and his gang flagrantly flout INEC regulations in conducting open rallies... Read more
