United Kingdom’s Keir Starmer is expected to announce his resignation as prime minister today to make way for Andy Burnham

36 agonising days after gunmen swept through three schools in Oyo State and disappeared into the vast wilderness with dozens of pupils and teachers, the battle to secure their freedom has entered what security officials described as its most decisive stage.

Blessed with a temperate climate, rich cultural diversity, and a history as one of Nigeria’s foremost commercial centres, Jos North Local Government Area occupies a unique place in Plateau State and the nation’s social and economic life.

A fresh leadership crisis has erupted within the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, following the purported suspension of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, by the faction led by Chikadibia Edoziem, a move the separatist organisation has swiftly rejected as unconstitutional and invalid.

In today’s Nigerian newspapers review programme, Today in the News, Vanguard leads with 36 state governors in the country again throwing their weight behind the immediate establishment of state police, to be constitutionally sound and aligned with federalism and citizens’ rights.