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The explosion scene By Olasunkanmi Akoni Score of persons sustained injuries and several vehicles burnt in the afternoon when a gas laden truck suddenly exploded after a lone accident at Cele Bus stop, Iju Ishaga, Lagos, Ogun States border. According to an eyewitness, the truck with an unknown registration number while conveying gasoline had a lone accident and exploded in the process. Director-General of Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Dr. Femi Oke-Osayintolu confirmed the incident. According to Oke-Osayintolu, ” The impact of the explosion led to fire at adjoining buildings and several vehicles were burnt. READ ALSO:   UPDATE: Massive explosion at Ajuwon Iju-Ishaga Road, Lagos “Several persons were also injured and have been taken to the nearest hospital for treatment. “The inferno is being tackled head-on by the combined efforts of the LASEMA Response Team led by the Director Operations, Lagos Response Unit, LRU Fire, LASG Fire Service, Nigeria Police Force and ...

President Donald Trump of USA. US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters aboard Air Force One as he flies from Manchester, New Hampshire to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, August 28, 2020, following a campaign rally. US President Donald Trump on Wednesday refused to guarantee that he will transfer power if he loses the November election, earning scorn from his Democratic challenger Joe Biden and even from within his own party. “Well, we’re going to have to see what happens,” Trump responded when asked at a White House press conference whether he is committed to the most basic tenet of democratic rule in the United States — the peaceful handover of power upon a change of president. Biden, who holds a steady lead over the Republican incumbent in opinion polls ahead of the November 3 vote, expressed incredulity. “What country are we in?” the former vice president said when asked about Trump’s comment by reporters. “Look, he says the most irrational things. I don’t know what to say.”...

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Scores of people were on Thursday injured, properties burnt in Gas tanker e xplosion  at Ajuwon Iju-ishaga road, Lagos. The spokesperson for the Lagos State Emergency Agency, Nosa Okunbor, confirmed the incident. Urging Lagosians to stay calm as LASEMA Response Team is at Cele Bus Stop, Iju Ishaga. A Twitter user shared a video of the explosion below Details later… Vanguard News . Visit website

   Malami By Henry Ojelu & Onozure Dania The Assets Recovery body created out of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, by the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, which seems to whittle down the power of the commission, has continued to generate reactions. In this edition, lawyers who spoke to Vanguard Law and Human Rights, expressed divergent views. Excerpt: Kabir Akingbolu : “The plan by the AGF to whittle down the power of the EFCC is an unfortunate one and a clear attempt to undermine the very essence of the agency and by extension, the end of the corruption fighting mantra of the Buhari-led administration. For crying out loud, the AGF is at the centre of the controversy, nothing is being done about it but the attention of the AGF whom many people, especially the NBA, are levelling allegations of corruption and other malfeasances against, has suddenly moved to amend the EFCC enabling Act to whittle down the pow...

Two others unconscious   Perez Brisibe – Abraka Four male indigenes of the Delta State University community of Abraka in Ethiope East local government area of the state were Thursday morning confirmed dead while two others who were unconscious, are currently receiving medical attention at the hospital. Though details of what led to the death of the victims were still sketchy at the time of this report, it was gathered that the victims were all among the seven persons that slept in a room at the Sunrise Hostel located along Ogboru street. While efforts to speak with the state police public relations officer, Onome Onowakpoyeya were fruitless, a source at the Abraka police station confirmed the incident when stressing that the remains of the victims have been deposited in the morgue. The source who spoke on condition of anonymity hinted that an alarm was raised of the incident by the seventh occupant of the room adding that two of the victims are siblings of the same mother with the ...

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By Michael Eboh The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, yesterday, disclosed that N8.9 trillion was spent on fuel subsidy by the Federal Government, mainly by previous administrations, between 2006 and 2015. According to data released to support the need for deregulation of the downstream petroleum industry, the PPPRA stated that the bulk of the sum was expended between 2011 and 2015, where N6.7 trillion, representing 74.8 per cent of the total were spent on subsidy. Giving a breakdown of the figure, the PPPRA disclosed that N257.36 billion, N271.51 billion, N630.57 billion, N409.31 billion, and N667.08 billion were spent on fuel subsidy in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010, while in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015, fuel subsidy gulped N2.1 trillion, N1.35 trillion, N1.32 trillion, N1.22 trillion and N653.51 billion. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, had disclosed that the Federal Government was not currently in a position, financially, to ...

President Muhammadu Buhari By Johnbosco Agbakwuru President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday met behind closed doors with the Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mai Mala Buni and Governor Abdallah Ganduje of Kano State at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Governor Ganduje was Chairman of the APC Campaign Committee for the just concluded Edo governorship election which was won by the incumbent governor Godwin Obaseki of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP against Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, the party’s standard bearer. Although the meeting was described as private, it may not be unconnected to the Edo governorship election. READ ALSO:  Edo Poll: APC supporters commend Buhari for providing level playing field The APC Caretaker Committee Chairman, who is also the governor of Yobe State and Ganduje were seen departing the president’s office using a route to deliberately avoid State House reporters. Recall that Ganduje and his Imo state counterpart, Hope Uzodinma, spent the we...

Buhari & Okorocha President Muhammadu Buhari felicitates with former Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Anayo Okorocha, on his 58th birthday, joining friends and family to celebrate the consummate entrepreneur and philanthropist, whose kindness cuts across the nation. President Buhari shares the moment of joy with political associates of Owelle Okorocha, Senator representing Imo West Senatorial district in the ninth assembly, whose antecedents as Chairman of the Progressive Governors Forum, President, Nigeria Red Cross Society, President/Founder, Rochas Foundation Inc, President, Rochas Group of Companies Limited, Pro-Chancellor, African Business School and former Chairman, Board of Nigerian Airspace Management Agency continues to resonate, especially among young leaders. READ ALSO:   Okorocha to Igbo leaders: Shun party differences, work together The President believes Sen. Okorocha’s large heart and detribalized outlook on the country will continue to stand him out for reco...

Nigerian Army By Nwafor Sunday Nigerian Army, Monday revealed how Col DC Bako, commander of 25 Task Force Brigade in Damboa, was killed in an ambush on Sunday. Ado Isa, the spokesman of the Nigeria Army’s Operation Lafiya Dole, said Bako led a patrol to clear Boko Haram Terrorits from Sabon Gari-Wajiroko axis near Damboa when his patrol team entered an ambush at about 10 a.m Sunday 20 September 2020. Explaining further, he said, the troops cleared the ambush resulting to the killing of scores of terrorists and recovery of weapons and equipment. Colonel Bako, according to Isa, was wounded in action and immediately evacuated by the Air Task Force Operation LAFIYA DOLE to the 7 Division Hospital at Maimalari Cantonment. He was reportedly recuperating well after a successful operation at the hospital. He said “his prayers in the early hours of this morning before his sad passing at the hospital. May Almighty Allah grant his soul eternal rest, Amen.” Read the full statement as obtained by P...

Some civil servants whose names were removed from the payroll of the Cross River Government on Monday in Calabar picketed the state secretariat complex, demanding reinstatement. The protesters carried placards with various inscription such as “Ayade pay us our salaries, “No Trade Union in Cross River”, “We will protest until we are reinstated”, among others. It would be recalled that the state government in August 2019 removed the names of no fewer than 2,500 civil servants from its payroll. One of the protesting civil servants, Mr James Obeten, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the situation had caused untold hardships in his families. “We were duly employed in 2015, and were given employment letters, it is very shocking that the government stopped our salaries since August 2019. “Without any reason, our names were dropped from the payroll, they claim that we were employed through the backdoor,” he said. READ ALSO:  Sokoto State Govt deletes 13,415 ghost names from LG pay...

Sen. Eyinnaya Abaribe. By Henry Umoru SENATE Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Abia South said Monday that his life has been full of coincidences in the cause of fighting for what is right. Speaking in Abuja while thanking poets from University of Nigeria Nsukka for writing a book on him titled: ” Ala Asaala, Silhouette of Abaribe “, the Minority leader said that during his travails as Deputy Governor of Abia State in the year 2000, the late Oba of Lagos, Adeyinka Oyekan invited him to Lagos and gave him the title of Alasela, meaning successful person, which was coined by my people from the East end to Ala Asaala, meaning, enlargement of coast. He said, ” Since then, it has been successful endeavours for me and enlargement of coast politically, having been in the Senate since 2007 till date and even minority leader, paving way for me to speak to Nigerians on critical issues and join other stakeholders in putting things aright.” According to him, ...

Soldiers A Nigerian Army colonel has been killed in a Boko Haram ambush. The colonel and some soldiers were attacked, on Sunday, when their vehicle was ambushed near Damboa, Borno State. Details of the attack are yet to be known, but an army source told PREMIUM TIMES that the late colonel would be buried on Tuesday. As at the time of filling this report, Journalists are not certain if his family has been notified about the situation, thus the reason for shielding his identity. When contacted, the spokesman of the Nigeria Army, Sagir Musa, declined to confirm the attack but said a press statement would soon be released about an attack in Borno State. READ ALSO:  Buhari, military efforts in North-east under-reported – Don Hundreds of soldiers and officers have been killed since the Boko Haram insurgency commenced in 2009. Tens of thousands of civilians have also been killed and millions of others displaced. Details later: Vanguard Nig News  Visit website

Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State. By Dirisu Yakubu Osaro Onaiwu, pioneer Director General of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governors Forum, Monday, chided Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma over the latter’s comment on S saturday’s governorship election in Edo State. Uzodinma, who was the deputy chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC national campaign council for the just concluded election made scathing remarks about the conduct of the election. A statement from Uzodinma, through his media aide, Oguwike Nwachukwu alleged irregularities in the election while disclosing that his party would reclaim the contest via the courts. Reacting to this development, Onaiwu faulted Uzodinma, noting that even the APC-led federal government has attested to the transparency of the election and congratulated the winner and the good people of Edo state. READ ALSO:  Uzodinma has not invited Araraume, Nwosu and I — Okorocha He stated that though Uzodinma was his friend of many years, he...

The suspect By Soni Daniel, Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Gombe Zonal Office is interrogating one Eze Mavus Ugochukwu, a student of Computer Science, Bauchi State Polytechnic, who defrauds unsuspecting members of the public by posing as a Lieutenant in the Nigerian Army. Ugochukwu, an indigene of Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State was arrested by the officers of 33 Artillery Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Shadawanka Barracks, Bauchi State and handed over to the Gombe Zonal Office of the EFCC for further investigation and possible prosecution following a complaint, lodged by one Mrs Dorcas Oni that the suspect presented himself to her as a Lieutenant in Nigerian Army and told her that he would assist her in securing admission for her son into the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) for which he made her transfer the sum of N400, 000.00 into his account. In the course of EFCC’s investigation, it was discovered that the suspect had defrauded some other victi...

By Bashir Bello, Kano Chairman, Kano State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, Danlami Hayyo on Monday said the state will procure Personal Protective Equipments, PPEs to the tune of N70 million for primary schools as part of the preparation for safe re-opening of the schools. The PPEs include buckets, hand washing liquid soap, hand sanitizer, and face masks among others. Hayyo stated this while speaking with newsmen on the sidelines of a one-day meeting for stakeholders from the Northwest zone on the readiness for safe re-opening of schools organized by the United Nations Childen’s Fund, UNICEF with support from the donor for GEP 3, Foreign Commonwealth, and Development Office, FCDO held in Kano on Monday. ALSO READ:  VIDEO: The day you mistakenly kill a ‘Yahoo Soldier’, you will be in trouble ― Man in military uniform threatens SARS The SUBEB Chairman hinted that the state is looking at the possibility of running classes in shifts for the pupils where it has congestion to com...

Professor Yemi Osinbajo As he interacts with UNN students on how Nigeria can deploy technology to solve problems Similar to what is going on in developed societies, how Nigeria harnesses and deploys technology and innovation to address emerging challenges will be crucial to the country’s recovery from the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. Professor Osinbajo stated this on Monday at the virtual conference of the Centre for Lion Gadgets & Technologies (University of Nigeria, Nsukka) themed “Technological Innovation for Holistic Sustainable Development”. The event also featured a virtual interaction between the Vice President and students both from the university and the secondary school in the UNN campus. Speaking about the importance of technology and innovation in resolving society’s numerous problems, the Vice President said “we must creatively imagine and pioneer our way out.” According to him, “we are in one of the worst...

By Ugochukwu Alaribe Tragedy struck in Aba, Abia State, at the weekend as gunmen shot dead a Police Inspector at Uratta in Aba North Council area of the state. The policeman whose name was given as Inspector Emma was said to have been transferred from Umuahia to Uratta police station, about two months ago. A police source told Vanguard that the slain policeman was on his way to work last Friday at about 8pm when he saw a man riding a motorcycle. He was alleged to have stopped and impounded the machine for an undisclosed reason. The source explained that the police inspector was riding on the motorcycle to the Uratta police station when on approaching Uratta Road by Chief Obi Street, he was attacked by three armed men. The hoodlums were said to have given the policeman machete cuts on his body, ripping his skull open in the process. READ ALSO:  Baby survives, mother dies in Anambra building collapse — Police After killing him, hoodlums reportedly fled with the police inspector’s AK ...

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Nigeria's vice president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has become a grandfather and he took to social media to share the good news. His daughter delivered a baby boy. Oludamilola and her husband Oluseun.  Legit.ng

By Dirisu Yakubu, Abuja The rains they say are showers of blessing but for residents of First Avenue, a riverside community located along the Kuje road, in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT; this appears not to be the case at the moment. This is because the torrential rains in the nation’s capital in the past couple of weeks have rendered hundreds of people homeless, following the destruction of over 60 houses. Some of the victims who spoke to our correspondents lamented the extent of the destruction, noting that the rains this year have been quite different from what they have been used to for a long time. Mr. Simon Omale, a retired Warrant Officer said he used his savings and retirement benefits to build a house, part of which he rented out to tenants, regretting however that it has been washed away by the floods. ALSO READ:  VIDEO: The day you mistakenly kill a ‘Yahoo Soldier’, you will be in trouble ― Man in military uniform threatens SARS “On July 25, 2020, we woke up to see ...

By David Royal Nigerians have hailed former governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha for describing the loss of his party in the Edo State governorship election as people’s revolution against injustice. Okorocha who is the senator representing Imo  West Senatorial Zone, had on Sunday while reacting to the outcome of the just-concluded Edo governorship election, insisted that APC’s loss was the masses’ revolution against injustice. He said “The truth is, what I have been talking about has come to play. If PDP wins in Edo, I will not congratulate the PDP, I will congratulate the Edo people. I congratulate them for standing up against injustice because the people that voted for Obaseki are not only PDP, even people in the APC voted for him. They want to stand up for injustice, Edo people are not docile, they know what they want and how they want it”, Nigerians who were impressed with the senator’s comment hailed him for ‘speaking the truth’, saying that it is the best they’ve ev...

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State By Joseph Erunke – Abuja Former governor of Kano State and Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has congratulated Governor Godwin Obaseki for his reelection in Saturday’s governorship election. He described the reelection of the governor as a “well-deserved victory.” Kwankwaso, in a statement through his Principal Private Secretary, Muhammad Inuwa Ali, Monday, in Abuja, said he particularly congratulated the people of Edo State for the governor’s victory because their action “symbolizes hope for every true democrat in our country.” READ ALSO:  Okowa’s aide commends S’South Govs over Obaseki’s victory He said Obaseki “worked very hard for the people of Edo State and they have reciprocated by coming out in droves not only to cast their votes for you but also to defend their votes and ensure that the multitude of election riggers mobilized by agents of doom, from different states, to steal the Edo election w...