The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution on Thursday, rebuking President Donald Trump’s statement that the news media is “the enemy of the people”.

Presidential Amnesty Office will collaborate with National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, NOSDRA, on disaster reduction programmes in the Niger Delta.

A suspected pipeline vandal, Kingsley Ibeto, Thursday escaped from a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, shortly after he was arraigned on a two count charge of unlawful dealing in petroleum product without lawful authority.

Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Prof. Charles Dokubo,  has raised the alarm over the activities of some individuals parading as vendors engaged by the Amnesty Office and sending text messages inviting unsuspecting beneficiaries of the Amnesty Programme for training in Owerri, Imo State, on August 19, 2018.

Murtala Muhammed Airport Area Command of Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted a vehicle belonging to an agency in the aviation industry, said to have been loaded with stolen cargo smuggled from Customs warehouse of the international airport’s tarmac area in Lagos.

The Health Department of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON, has called on Nigerian Pilgrims to ensure that they abide by all laid down health rules and other Taradudiyyah (movements) guidelines for their safety and well-being.

Rev. Chris Okotie, founder of the House of God International Ministry who recently renewed his ambition to run for the President of this country in an exclusive interview with Vanguard has said that political gladiators must be willing to sacrifice themselves for Nigeria, adding that only nationalistic sentiments with option of peace as articulated in his letter to the two political parties recently would take the country to the next level.

Former Vice President and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential hopeful, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has stressed the need to drastically reduce the growing rate of unemployment in the country by creating jobs for the teeming youth in order to forestall its devastating backlash.

As Muslims world-over warm up for the Eid-il-Kabir festival, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has cautioned Nigerian Muslims to spend within the limit of their incomes and shun borrowing for slaughtering rams.

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said that under his watch, money meant for the development of the state will not be shared.

In line with the drive of the Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, to revamp state-owned tertiary institutions to world-class solution centres, the Edo State Polytechnic Usen, will feature the Commandant, Nigerian Army School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Auchi, Brig. Gen. Dickson Ehiorobo, for the school’s second Eminent Scholar Lecture Series, to proffer engineering-based solutions to Nigeria’s security challenges.

THE Chief Missioner of Nasrul Lahil-L-Fatih Society, NASFAT, Imam Mahroof Abdulazeez Onike has broken new ground in dawah (propagation of religious ideals) with his recent successful participation in the just concluded International Human Rights Defenders Forum in Atlanta, United States of America at the instance of the Carter Center Inc., a pet project of former US President Jimmy Carter.

DELTA State Governor,  Dr Ifeanyi Okowa has given industrialists with landed property at the state industrial estates till December to develop their property or get such revoked.

Dr Olusola Ayandele, a governorship aspirant in Oyo State, has promised that youths and women would get 60 per cent representation in his cabinet, if elected.

YENAGOA—BAYELSA State Government has urged women in the state to key into its safe motherhood initiative to enjoy the benefits of the programme.