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A toddler identified as Obinna Adeze has died after a teacher, one Emeka Joshua Nwogbo, gave him 31 strokes of the cane. The suspect, it was learnt, teaches in a school owned by his mother. Mr. Ebenezer Omejalile, Chief Operating Officer of Advocates for Children and Vulnerable People’s Network, a human rights group, said the […]

Governor Udom Emmanuel said the Akwa Ibom State Government has been taken to court by “witches” for building a Christian worship centre in the state. The multi-billion naira worship centre which is ongoing in Uyo has been criticised by many who felt it would have been better to use the money to tackle the many development needs of […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities is expected to come up with a decision on whether to embark on fresh industrial action known on Monday (today). Members of the union’s National Executive Council have been holding marathon meetings since Saturday. Members of NEC, including ASUU leaders across campuses, had been in a closed-door meeting at […]

The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has called on Nigerian youths to build a great society, telling them to let their generation heal the country’s wounds. Osinbajo made this call on Saturday at the combined convocation ceremony of the Federal University, Wukari, in Taraba State, where he represented President Muhammadu Buhari, the institution’s Visitor. In […]

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in Spain on suspicion of shooting dead his parents and 10-year-old brother following a row over bad school grades, police said Saturday.  The incident occurred on Tuesday evening in a rural area just outside Elche, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the southeastern port city of Alicante. It was […]

Presidential aspirant Bola Tinubu on Saturday paid a courtesy call on the Alake and Paramount ruler of Egbaland, Aremu Gbadebo. The visit is part of his consultations for the presidency in 2023. Mr Tinubu has publicly signalled his intention to run. He made the trip to Egbaland in company of prominent members of the All […]

“I will tell you how the APC was formed. I am a stakeholder in the party, the same as Asiwaju and Muhammadu Buhari before he became the President. We are four individuals that formed the APC and a man cannot just abandon a house he has built. I do believe that this harassment and intimidation […]

A whirlwind of insecurity is back in the South East Nigeria, with the return of gunmen in the region. Tagged ‘unknown gunmen,’ they have once again imposed an atmosphere of fear, anxiety and uncertainty on the zone. In the past four weeks, none of the five states of the zone has been spared the gale of […]

A Texas man who had been sleeping with his own sister beat her to death with a baseball bat after he found out she had sex with another man, prosecutors said. Jose Manuel Guzman, 32, allegedly killed his sister in the Canutillo home they shared when he attacked her with a “massage instrument” and a […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said the All Progressives Congress (APC) must be made attractive for young people to take ownership of the party. The president disclosed this at the State House in Abuja where he played host to the APC national youth lobby committee led by the national youth leader, Ismaeel Ahmed. He said […]

As part of the measures to check the rising insecurity across the nation, the Nigerian police are calling for a legislation that would compel private citizens, including government agencies and corporate organisations, to install CCTV cameras and security sensors on their facilities. The police made the call on Wednesday at the end of their two-day retreat and […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said that it would cease feeding commercial banks with hefty foreign exchange (forex) before year end, urging them to source forex themselves to operate. This was as the Bankers Committee unveiled the “Race to $200 billion in FX Repatriation” programme (RT200 FX), an initiative that aggregates a set of […]

Nigeria has moved up four places to 32nd in the latest FIFA Ranking released by the world football governing body on Thursday. Despite an early exit from the just concluded Africa Cup of Nations, the Super Eagles put up a commanding display during the group stages, collecting all available nine points and pushed Tunisia all […]

President Muhammadu Buhari and the House of Representatives talked tough yesterday over the bad fuel imported in to the country, saying those behind it must be held accountable. In fact, the House at its plenary, said heads must roll, if the situation was to be averted in future. The President and lawmakers’ positions came on […]

Prince Emmanuel Kanu, the younger brother of the detained Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has again, raised the alarm that despite court order, the Department of State Services, DSS, has not allowed Kanu access to his new clothes. Kanu’s brother told Vanguard that he had in three occasions, personally […]