Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu on Tuesday gave a ray of hope on the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from detention, saying releasing the latter is achievable. It will be that the Supreme Court recently ordered the retrial of the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) […]
Suspected Boko Haram terrorists in military uniform have killed 12 persons and abducted one in Gatamarwa and Tsiha communities in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State. The latest attack came barely two weeks after the insurgents perpetrated a similar attack in Chibok, where they killed two persons and looted food stuff in some […]
The National Union of Nigerian Students (NANS) has asked the Federal Government to reassess the suspension placed on the accreditation and evaluation of degree certificates from neighbouring Benin Republic and Togo. The Federal Government on Tuesday suspended certificates from the two francophone West African countries following a report detailing how a degree was acquired […]
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Daniel Bwala, on Tuesday, said opposition political parties will come together to form a strong coalition that will wrest power from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2027 general elections. Bwala, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today, said without a coalition […]
An Israeli strike on Tuesday killed Saleh al-Aruri, deputy head of the Hamas movement, in a southern Beirut stronghold of Hamas ally Hezbollah, two security officials told AFP. Hamas later confirmed Aruri’s death, which Lebanese state media said came in an Israeli drone strike that killed a total of six people. The attack marked […]
The President of Harvard University, Claudine Gay, resigned on Tuesday after coming under attack for her handling of anti-Semitism during protests over Gaza, as well as allegations that she had plagiarised in her academic work. Gay was criticised in recent months after reports surfaced alleging that she did not properly cite scholarly sources. The […]
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited says it recorded 112 incidences of crude oil theft across the Niger Delta in one week. In a documentary posted on its X handle on Tuesday, NNPC said the incidents occurred between December 23, 2023 and December 29, 2023. The national oil company listed the incident sources […]
The Moroccan army on Tuesday said that it has arrested more than 1,000 migrants from different coastal areas along its shores. The migrants were arrested while attempting to head to the Canary Islands and the exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, which all belong to Spain. According to a statement issued by the General Command […]
A headmaster in Burra primary school in Ningi local government area of Bauchi state, Jalaludeen Zakari, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for defiling a 6-year-old girl in his school. Justice Nana Fatimah Jibrin of the Bauchi State High Court No. 11 sentenced the head teacher in Bauchi. Vanguard gathered that Zakari’s […]
The Ondo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has suspended the state chairman, Fatai Adams, over alleged anti-party activities. The party’s working committee in the state announced the suspension of the state chairman in a statement on Tuesday. The statement was co-signed by the state deputy Chairman, Tola Alabere; state secretary, Oluseye […]
