Two prominent traditional rulers, the Emir of Gwandu and Chairman, Kebbi Council of Chiefs, Alhaji Muhammadu Bashar, and the Emir of Dutse in Jigawa State, Alhaji Muhammad Sunusi yesterday lent their voices to the raging issue of insecurity in the country. While the Emir of Gwandu attributed the current security challenges in the country to what he called satanic behavious like rape, homosexuality and lesbianism, the Emir of Dutse is seeking severe punishment  for any convicted rapist. Both leaders spoke on the occasion of the Moslem festival of Eid-el-Kabir, which was celebrated nationwide yesterday.

Strong voices from various groups and notable persons in the actvist community and civil society organisations rose in condemnation of a ruling by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, granting a request by the Department of State Services, DSS, to detain the convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore, for 45 days.

AS mixed views continue to herald last Monday’s #RevolutionNow protests in some states of the country and security agents clampdown on the protesters, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday, said Nigerians have the right to protest but they must properly articulate their grievances.

The Department of State Service, DSS, yesterday approached the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, seeking leave to detain the convener of the RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore, for 90 days.

ANGRY youths and facilitators of the #RevolutionNow protest, yesterday, defied threats of security agencies to hold demonstrations in four states of the country and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

By Clifford Ndujihe, Dapo Akinrefon, Ben Agande, Johnbosco Agbakwuru Egufe Yafugborhi & Chinonso Alozie ABUJA—The Presidency yesterday, in response to plans for a nationwide protest today, has said that the only way to change government in a democracy was through the electoral process. Sowore, Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, in the February […]

The misery being experienced by commuters on Apapa-Oshodi Expressway daily due to the menace of articulated trucks and tankers which has resulted to the gridlock on the expressway, continued yesterday, as a commuter was crushed to death by a truck around Fort Oil filling station by Berger Yard.

•Says group pledged allegiance to foreign nations to ruin Nigeria •Don’t turn Nigeria to battle ground, Shi’ite group warns S’Arabia, Iran •Reverse yourself on Shi’ites proscription, Onaiyekan urges FG •Says Nigeria’s security has worsened in last 5 years •See Vanguard Editorial  By: Kingsley Omonobi, Ben Agande, Joe Erunke & Luminous Jannamike ABUJA—The Inspector General of […]

An end to the erratic power supply in Nigeria is far from sight. Reason: Nigeria’s power sector losses have risen to N332.4 billion due to insufficient gas supply, distribution and transmission infrastructure between January and July, 2019.

Strong reactions, yesterday, trailed the Federal Government’s proscription of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, otherwise known as Shi’ites, as the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Senator Shehu Sani and some senior lawyers warned of the implications of the move, saying it was unconstitutional.

By Clifford Ndujihe LAGOS — A group of eminent Nigerian elder statesmen and other citizens, yesterday, pondered the state of the nation and returned a grim verdict: Nigeria is on the verge of war and all hands must be on deck to avert looming disaster. Led by Professor Anya O. Anya and Dr. Christopher Kolade, […]

THE Senate will today begin screening of the 43 ministerial nominees forwarded to it, yesterday, by President Muhammadu Buhari for confirmation.

Clashes between the police and the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, (a.k.a Shi’ites)  yesterday,  assumed a dangerous dimension, claiming the lives of a Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, and no fewer than six members of the group. Three police officers are said to be in critical condition following a bloody clash between the Islamic sect and security forces, yesterday in Abuja, the nation’s capital.

NATIONAL Christian Elders Forum, NCEF, has challenged governors to set up state police organizations in the fashion of the Hisbah Corps, established by Kano State government to enforce laws of the state in Sharia courts as a way of checkmating rising insecurity in the country.

Senior lawyers and civil society groups in the country, yesterday, concurred with the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, SAN, that the nation’s judiciary was deeply enmeshed in corruption but threw him the challenge  of sanitising the system.