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67.35% Get Five Credits As NECO Releases Results For 2023 SSCE

  The National Examination Council (NECO) has released the 2023 senior secondary school examination (SSCE) external results with 67.35 percent of candidates who sat for the examination earning five credits and above including English Language and Mathematics. The Registrar and Chief Executive of the council Professor Dantani Wushishi while declaring the results on Monday, 68 […]

Ohaneze Demand Gowon’s Apology On Civil War

  Socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has called on a former head of state, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (Rtd), to apologise to the Igbo clan for recent “inflammatory” comments about the Nigerian Civil War experience. A statement released on Sunday, Ohanaeze Secretary-General Okechukwu Isiguzoro said Gowon’s comments during a recent visit to President Bola Tinubu, were a […]

Palestinian Government Submits Resignation To Abbas

  Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh on Monday announced the resignation of his government which rules parts of the occupied West Bank. “I submit the government’s resignation to Mr President (Mahmud Abbas),” Shtayyeh said, adding it comes in the wake of the “developments related to the aggression against the Gaza Strip and the escalation in […]

CSOs Protest Over Economic Hardship In Edo, Osun States

  Members of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have poured into the streets in Edo and Osun states over the economic hardship in the country. Inflation has reached 29 percent in Nigeria and with the subsidy on fuel removed, the cost of living has spiked in recent months. This has triggered debates and protests in some […]

Three siblings die of suffocation inside car in Kwara

  Three siblings of the same parent, a boy and two girls, died of extreme suffocation inside a car parked in their residential quarters in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital. The incident occurred at No. 8, Boluke Line, Zango-Kulende quarters in the Ilorin East local government area of Kwara State on Sunday. Vanguard correspondent reliably […]

US airman sets self on fire outside Israeli embassy

  An active member of the US Air Force set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington on Sunday, officials said, as media reported he was protesting the war in Gaza. Emergency responders rushed to the scene just before 1:00 pm (1800 GMT) in response to a “call for person on fire outside […]

Nnamdi Kanu’s trial resumes

  Operatives of the Department of State Services are have beefed up security inside and outside the Federal High Court in Abuja as the court is expected to commence the trial of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, today. The matter was suspended after the Court of Appeal discharged and acquitted […]

Pope Francis decries high increase of Kidnappings in Nigeria

  Pope Francis says the frequent abductions in Nigeria are extremely concerning. In a post on X on Sunday, the pope said he is praying and hoping that efforts would be made to contain these incidents. “The increasingly frequent kidnappings in Nigeria are extremely concerning,” he posted. “I express my closeness in prayer to the […]