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The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, said on Wednesday the Federal Government has paid $150 million out of the $2 billion loan taken from China for railway projects in the country. He said the $150 million represents 7.5 percent of the entire loan. The minister disclosed when he featured in a Channels Television’s programme, ‘Politics Today. Amaechi said contrary to claims by the...

President Muhammadu Buhari has landed in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, on Thursday morning. Buhari is in the state to commission some projects executed by the Governor Babagana Zulum administration. The presidential jet landed at the Nigerian Air Force wing of the Maiduguri International Airport at 9:30am. The president was received by Prof Zulum, members of national and state houses of...

Barely three days after President Muhammadu Buhari announced that his administration has lifted 10 million people out of poverty, the World Bank said the rising prices of goods have pushed seven million people into poverty. The declarations by the president and the World Bank came at a time the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said inflations dropped by 0.19 percent...

The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, said on Tuesday the bank is ready to assist its Gambian counterpart to print the country’s currency. Emefiele disclosed this when the Governor of Central Bank of Gambia, Mr. Buah Saidy, led the bank’s delegation on a two-day visit to the country. The CBN governor was responding to a request by his Gambian...

Parents of the abducted pupils of Tanko Salihu Islamiyya School, Tegina, in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State, have resorted to begging in churches and mosques in the community to raise the ransom demanded by their children kidnappers. Bandits had on May 30 abducted 150 children from the school. They, however, released 11 children 24 hours later. A member of the community,...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Wednesday, announced the successful expansion of the existing Polling Units across the country from 119,974 to 176,846 full-fledged Polling Units. Consequently, 749 Polling Units were relocated from inappropriate locations to appropriate public facilities or open spaces in line with “our policy to guarantee unencumbered access to Polling Units for all voters.” Out of this figure,...

The House of Representatives and the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) on Tuesday clashed over the whereabouts of the $44 million recovered from the Nigeria Intelligence Agency (NIA) by Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) at a residential apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos, four years ago. The disagreement came to the fore during an investigative hearing by the House...

The United States on Tuesday recorded 600,000 deaths from COVID-19, data from Johns Hopkins University has revealed. However, the vaccination drive has drastically brought down daily cases and gives the country a renewed optimism as they look forward to summer. The average number of COVID-19 deaths each day in the past week was 343, which is about five times higher than...

Politician and one-time presidential aspirant, Adamu Garba has revealed reason for the removal of his Crowwe App on Playstore by Google. Recall that Google on Monday, June 14, deleted Crowwe App days after federal government suspended Twitter. Vanguard learnt some aggreived Nigerians had taken to Playstore to discredit the app following the suspension of Twitter. “We took down Crowwe App because we...

Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo has announced the introduction of a policy that would insure the lives of personnel of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) in the state. Uzodinma made this disclosure during his visit to the Police Command Headquarters in Owerri, on Tuesday. He was at the command to commiserate with the NPF over the officers who lost their lives...