Over 100 persons would have lost their lives following the discovery of an object suspected to be a bomb at the United Evangelical Church, Ehere/Umuola, Ogbor Hill, Aba, Abia State. Eyewitnesses told Vanguard that the church members were digging the fence area around the parsonage for a new one when they dug out a large…
Authorities in the United States have arrested a 61-year-old Nigerian man, Kayode Agbolade Ogunba, over allegations that he sexually abused patients while working at a nursing home in Santa Barbara County, California. Ogunba, a certified nursing assistant, came under investigation in early November 2025 after a nursing facility in Goleta reported that two patients had…
Chinese former minister of justice, Tang Yijun, has been sentenced to life Imprisonment. Tang Yijun was sentenced by Xiamen Intermediate People’s Court in the southeastern coastal Fujian province on Monday February 2 2026, for corruption. He reportedly accepted illegal property worth more than 137 million yuan ($19.71 million) between 2006 and 2022, and abused his…
Ghana has paused citizenship applications for members of the African diaspora, in order to make the system more accessible and user friendly. Since 2016, those who can prove their ancestors came from Africa have been able to get Ghanaian nationality – this was primarily aimed at the descendants of those who were victims of the…
A newborn baby has been found abandoned with a handwritten note at a shop in Umuodu village, Okpuno, Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State. The baby was discovered inside a tote bag by a nurse, Mrs. Mercy Iloanya, on Sunday, February 1, 2026, when she arrived at her shop along Pope John Paul…
An Ikeja High Court has cleared the way for legal processes to be served on social media influencer, Martins Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), and Kelvin Emmanuel via electronic means. In a ruling delivered on Monday, the court, presided over by Justice Akintunde Savage, granted leave for the second and third defendants to be…
Former Minister of Information and Culture, Alh. Lai Mohammed, has insisted that the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, Mr Peter Obi, could not have emerged winner of the contest even if he had secured as many as 10 million votes. Mohammed made the assertion while speaking on broadcaster Edmund Obilo’s podcast,…
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the remand of the nine suspects arraigned by the Federal Government over their alleged involvement in the massacre of about 150 people in Yelwata, a town in Benue state, in June last year at the Kuje Correctional Centre in Abuja. The trial Judge, Justice Joyce Abdul-Malik,…
The city of Tshwane in South Africa disconnected electricity supply to the High Commission of the Federal Republic of Nigeria over unpaid utility bills, before later restoring power after the debt was settled. The development was disclosed by the Executive Mayor of the City of Tshwane, Dr. Nasiphi Moya, in a post on X. “#TshwaneYaTima:…
Former Anambra State Governor Peter Obi has explicitly tied the forthcoming Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) election to his ambition to contest the 2027 presidential race, telling supporters that their backing at the grassroots level is crucial to his national political journey. The 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate spoke while campaigning for the African Democratic…
