Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun said the state would invest more in cocoa and other agricultural produce to improve its internally-generated revenue profile.
Aregbesola, who stated this at a meeting with cocoa producers in Osogbo on Sunday, said 60 million “active’’ cocoa trees had been identified ‘for the production of “Cocoa Omoluabi’’ in the state.

Around 50 people were feared killed when Boko Haram fighters armed with guns and explosives attacked a village in northeastern Nigeria, the army and local residents said Sunday.

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the African Union’s (AU) vision to silence the guns and reduce preventable conflict-related deaths in the continent by 2020 must be achieved “now’’.

Worried by the continued detention of the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and Director Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign States of Biafra, MASSOB, has accused the federal government of playing politics with the detained activist.

By Kingsley Omonobi Abuja – Military sources have confirmed to Vanguard that over 50 persons were killed by scores of Boko haram terrorists armed with AK 47 rifles and other sophisticated weapons in close to one and half hours operation at Dalori village which is about 4 kilometers away from Maiduguri. The successful attack, killing […]