The Vice-Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, Senator Abba Moro (PDP, Benue), has said his constituents may soon resort to self help over worsening insecurity. Moro said this while reacting to the assassination of a lecturer, Echobu Adah, who worked with the Benue State Polytechnic, Ugbokolo.
Students and staff of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) in Imo State on Tuesday avoided the main entrance of the school over a coffin that was dumped there. They took alternative routes to avoid the object. It could not be confirmed who dumped the coffin, but sources said it could be members of […]
The national leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate in the governorship election in Anambra State, Senator Andy Uba, will take decision on whether to challenge the victory of Prof. Charles Soludo or not. The Chairman of the APC Anambra State Campaign Council and Governor of Imo state, Hope Uzodinma, said […]
Tragedy struck on Tuesday afternoon at Grammar School Bus Stop, Along Ogba-ojodu Berger Road Lagos when a white delivery truck, allegedly chased by officials of Lagos State Traffic Management Agency LASTMA rammed into school children returning back from school killing seventeen in the process. Vanguard metro learned that the school children who are pupils from […]
Police have arrested a 32-year old man, Biodun Adebiyi, for beating a 30-year old cigarette seller to death over N50 change. The suspect, who was arrested on December 5 by detectives from Idiroko divisional headquarters, had gone to a shop in the Ajegunle area of Idiroko to buy cigarettes where one Mukaila Adamu attended to […]
Emmanuel Osodoke, president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), says the leadership of the body will consult with its members before deciding on actions to take against the federal government. In November, ASUU gave a 3-week ultimatum to the government to implement the 6 items in their memorandum of action (MoA). The union […]
The Honda SUV vehicle where the remains of the eight children were recovered in Lagos. Three suspects have been arrested in connection with the mysterious death of some children in the Badagry area of Lagos State. The corpses of the eight children were recovered from a Honda Sport Utility Vehicle parked on Adelayo Street, in […]
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have uncovered a huge methamphetamine-making laboratory in Asaba, the capital of Delta State. Methamphetamine is popularly known as Mkpurummiri in South East Nigeria, and has become a menace among youths. Officials of the agency’s Special Enforcement Team (SET) also busted the masterminds of the major drug […]
An Imo State born human rights activist and author, Comrade Paul Ikechukwu Njoku, has blasted governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State over a widely reported police brutality and extortion in the State. Activist Njoku who threatened the governor with another #Endsars mass protest in Owerri, the Imo State capital, over what he described as “resurgence […]
The Department of State Services has refused to obey court orders granting Nnamdi Kanu maximum comfort in detention, change of clothing, amongst others, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, lead counsel for the embattled Indigenous People of Biafra leader has said. The lawyer, in a statement on Tuesday, kicked that the detaining agency has “unrepentantly continued to treat the […]
