The house of representatives has resolved to summon President Muhammadu Buhari over the killing of more than 40 farmers in Borno state on November 28, 2020. The farmers were attacked in Zabarmari area of Borno by suspected members of the Boko Haram sect. The decision to summon the president followed a motion by members of […]
A Twenty-year-old man, identified as Safiyanu Mustapha has drowned inside a well in Gaida, Kumbotso Local Government Area of Kano State. It was gathered that circumstances surrounding Mustapha’s death were still under investigation. The Public Relations Officer, Kano State Fire Service, Saidu Muhammed who confirmed the development to Vanguard on Tuesday, said the victim was […]
Senate has confirmed the nomination of Prof Mahmood Yakubu for appointment as Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Yakubu was first appointed as INEC chair on October 21, 2015, by President Muhammadu Buhari. He was reappointed after his first tenure lapsed in October this year. His confirmation followed the consideration of the report […]
The national leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said it is still consulting on what its reply will be to the offers the Federal Government made for it to end its eight-month-old strike. The National President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, said this on Tuesday in a chat with Vanguard. According to him, […]
The do State Judicial Panel of Inquiry set up to investigate the activities of the now-disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in the state has ordered the immediate arrest of CSP Carol Afegbai (rtd) for refusing to appear before it to explain her alleged complicity in the murder of a University of Benin student, Ibrahim Momoh. […]
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has announced its withdrawal from the forthcoming Local Government elections in Kano state. The decision of the party was announced on Tuesday at a press briefing organised by the Caretaker Committee of the party in the state led by Dr. Danladi Abdulhameed, with the party’s governorship candidate in the 2019 […]
The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in Otukpo, SP Yahaya Pawa, was early hours of Tuesday shot by suspected criminals in a suburb of Otukpo in Benue state Daily Trust gathered that the police officer had led his team to effect the arrest of some suspected criminals in Otukpo-Icho community when the incident occurred. It was […]
The High Court sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state has sentenced a 43-year-old Swedish-Nigerian woman, Stephany Isaksson, to four years in prison for child trafficking. The convict, with charge number FHC/UY/108C/2019, was jailed on two-count charges of receiving an 18-month-old baby by means of fraud, from one Uduak, now at large, for the purpose of […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday urged Nigerians to embrace the use of gas as an alternative to premium motor spirit (PMS) popularly known as petrol. President Buhari spoke at a virtually held event at the State House, Abuja, to unveil National Gas Expansion Programme and National Autogas Roll-out Initiative. The President said the auto-gas initiative […]
House of Representatives will engage the British Parliament over allegation levelled against former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (Rtd). This followed a motion on matters of urgent national importance moved by Rep. Yusuf Gagdi (APC,Plateau) calling on the House to write the British parliament and invite the British High Commissioner to the House on […]
