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The leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has imposed Dennis Idahosa as running mate to Senator Monday Okpebholo, the governorship candidate of the party in Edo state. Checks revealed that Senator Okpebholo who had earlier picked Hon Omoregie Ogbeide-Ihama as his running mate was told to drop the latter for his main rival for the party ticket, Dennis Idahosa. …

Soldiers deployed to Okuama community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State have continued razing more houses in the community, following last weekend’s killing of several military men on rescue mission to the riverine community. A community source, who spoke to our reporter, said the military are currently occupying Okuama and that several houses had either been razed or demolished. …

There are indications that the Federal Government through the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) is now spending N17.72 billion daily to fund subsidy on petrol. Though still shrouded in secrecy, the funding strategy, Vanguard learnt, is consummated by way of crude sales and direct cost recovery by NNPC. An executive of a major petroleum marketing company in Lagos …

• Houses razed, community deserted • Oborevwori, PANDEF condole with families President Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday expressed deep displeasure over the killing of army officers and soldiers on a peace mission in a Delta State community, describing it as a direct affront to the nation. Outrage greeted the dastardly act yesterday from Nigerians, who viewed the situation as unbecoming. The military, which …

President Vladimir Putin sealed his control over Russia for six more years on Monday with a highly orchestrated landslide in an election that followed the harshest crackdown on the opposition and free speech since Soviet times. While the result was never in doubt, Russians attempted to defy the inevitable outcome, heeding a call to protest Putin’s repression at home and his war in …

…Deploys heavy artillery weapons to community Alleged Mutilated bodies of the Commanding officer, Majors and some of the soldiers have been found floating in the river in Okuoma community in Ughelli south local  government area of Delta State, Nigeria, according to report by Vanguard. Community sources told Vanguard that the bowels of some of the officers were ripped open by …

Following last Thursday’s killing of the Commanding Officer 181 battalion, Nigerian Army, Lt. Col Ali, two Majors, one Captain and 12 soldiers on a peace mission to Okuoma community in Delta state, the military has commenced a counter operation. The operation according to sources, is to fish out the suspects, youths who perpetrated the babaric act of not only killing …

By Eben Enasco Measures have been put in place by the Oredo Government Council to improve the transparency and predictability of the investment environment, which will boost its operational sustainability in the Council Area. At the launch of a new investment initiative on Friday at the Council’s Secretariat in Benin City, with the name, “OREDO BUSINESS SUPPORT AND INVESTMENT FACILITATION …

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Salvatore LoGrande fought cancer and all the pain that came with it, his daughters promised to keep him in the white, pitched roof house he worked so hard to buy all those decades ago. So, Sandy LoGrande thought it was a mistake when, a year after her father’s death, Massachusetts billed her $177,000 for her father’s …

Bishop Michael Burbidge of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, this week announced that his diocese is willing to help with the burial of the body of an unborn baby discovered in a local pond. Police in Leesburg, Virginia, announced this week the “discovery of a deceased late-term fetus in a pond” about 20 miles outside of Washington, D.C., the Catholic …