By Omeiza Ajayi The ruling All Progressives Congress APC has urged Nigerians to resist those who have hijacked the #EndSARS agitations and now using it as a platform to incite violence across the country. The APC gave the charge in a congratulatory message to the Muslim faithful on the occasion of this year’s Eid-El-Maulud which […]

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri The Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Wednesday, struck out the notice of appeal that convener of the 2019 #RevolutionNow protest, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, filed to challenge his bail conditions. Sowore, who was the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, in the last general election and publisher of an online […]

By Tordue Salem – Abuja The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has called on Nigerians, especially the leaders, at all levels across the country, to use the 2020 Eid-el Maulud celebration, to embrace truth, justice, honesty, peace and selfless service. The Caucus, in a statement by the Minority Leader of the House of […]

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Abuja The Federal Executive Council, FEC, on Wednesday approved N4.519 billion for the award of contract for the printing of examination materials and rehabilitation of road networks within the satellite towns of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja. This was disclosed at the end of the 21st FEC virtual meeting presided over […]

Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti has restated his administration’s determination to engage youths for the development and enhancement of the state’s cultural and tourism potentials. The governor said this in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Tourism Development, Mr Wale Ojo-Lanre, on Wednesday in Ado-Ekiti. He said that the state would make […]

By Marie-Therese Nanlong, Jos The leadership of the Evangelical Church Winning All, ECWA has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to seize the opportunity provided by the #EndSARS demand to urgently put in place the necessary mechanisms for the implementation of the recommendations of the 2014 National Conference. ECWA President, Rev. Stephen Panya who gave the charge […]

By Ike Uchechukwu, Calabar Cross River state governor, Prof. Ben Ayade has ordered the immediate suspension of transportation of scrap of all categories out of the state. The is coming on the heels of the massive looting and destruction of public and private properties as well as businesses in Calabar by hoodlums last week. ALSO […]

Gov. Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State has inaugurated a 17-member Judicial Panel of Inquiry over alleged police brutality and human rights abuses in the state. While inaugurating the committee on Thursday in Bauchi, Mohammed said that the panel members were chosen based on the government’s belief in their abilities to be committed, fair and just. […]

President Muhammadu Buhari today, swore-in the new National Population Commission Commissioners during the Federal Executive Council Meeting at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Photos by Abayomi Adesida ALSO READ: UN appoints NAPTIP’s DG into UNODC board of trustees Vanguard

The United Nation’s General Assembly (UNGA), has appointed Mrs Julie Okah-Donli, the Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), to the board of trustees for United Nations Office on Drug and Crimes (UNODC). Okah-Donli’s appointment is contained in a statement issued to newsmen on Wednesday in  Abuja by Mr […]