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…Urges residents’ support to flush out corrupt officials Public Works Volunteers (PUWOV) in Edo State has apprehended one Fidelis Ugbenna, an officer of the scheme for allegedly extorting money from a motorist. The State Coordinator, PUWOV, Mukhtar Yusuf-Osagie, who disclosed this to journalists in Benin City, said the personnel has been handed over to the police for further investigation and …

Nigerian Army, the Police, Nigerian Immigration Service and Importers Association of Nigeria (IMAN) have thrown their weight behind a bill in the House of Representatives seeking to give legal backing to the ECOWAS Convention on Small Arms and Light Weapons. The stakeholders states their various positions at a public hearing on; ‘ECOWAS Convention on Small Arms and Light Weapons, their …

Determined to restore security in Anambra State, the 302 Artillery Regiment General Support, has lunched ‘Exercise Golden Dawn’, to provide security in the state. Exercise Golden Dawn, according the Commander 302 Artillery Regiment (General Support) Col. Abdulkarim .B. Usman, in the welcome address he presented at the flag off ceremony at Igbariam, Anambra East Local Government Area, is apart from …

WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook are currently down for many users. The three apps – which are all owned by Facebook, and run on shared infrastructure – all completely stopped working shortly before 5pm. Other products that are part of the same family of apps, such as Facebook Workplace, also stopped working. When Vanguard visited the Facebook website, there was an …

Peter Obi, the ex-governor of Anambra State in Southeastern Nigeria, is widely regarded in Nigeria as an advocate of good governance, openness, and transparency. In addition to speeches on his governance records and statistics-laden prescriptions for Nigeria’s development, he likes to talk about how hugely successful he became in business before diving into politics. In speeches and in printed literature, Mr …

Edo State House of Assembly (EDHA) on Monday confirmed all 11 commissioner-nominees whose names were forwarded to the lawmakers by the state governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki. The House also confirmed Justice Joe Acha as the Chief Judge of the state, sequel to a request letter by Governor Obaseki. The commissioner-nominees were screened and cleared by the House Committee on Rules, …

The Pandora Papers’s 11.9 million records arrived from 14 different offshore services firms in a jumble of files and formats – even ink-on-paper – presenting a massive data-management challenge A 2.94 terabyte data trove exposes the offshore secrets of wealthy elites from more than 200 countries and territories. These are people who use tax and secrecy havens to buy property and …

A new global investigation exposing the offshore hideaways of some of the world’s most powerful personalities is launching today after two years of discreet work by investigative journalists around the world. The project, known as Pandora Papers, is facilitated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which obtained a trove of 11.9 million confidential files. The reporting, which is still ongoing, …

Jordanian authorities say the Pandora Papers’ claims threaten royal family’s safety. The ‘Pandora Papers’ is an investigation based on one of the biggest-ever leaks of financial documents which, on Sunday, exposed a hidden world of shielded wealth belonging to hundreds of politicians and billionaires. Considered as one of the largest ever global media investigations, the Pandora Papers involved more than …

Unit offices of the Department of State Services (DSS) and Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Nnewi, Anambra were on Sunday set ablaze by yet to be identified gunmen. The gun wielding men were said to have operated for hours in the industrial town. A source, who pleaded anonymity, told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the gunmen, who stormed the …