Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, has called on Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to address the escalating harassment, extortion, and physical abuse of traders by state officials and security agents.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) announced Sunday that its operatives have dismantled two major cross-border drug trafficking syndicates, seizing cocaine and opioids worth billions of naira and arresting six cartel leaders across various regions in Nigeria.

As the Ondo State Gubernatorial Election, scheduled for November 16, 2024, draws near, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, has unequivocally assured the public of the Nigeria Police Force’s unwavering readiness to ensure a peaceful and orderly election process across all 18 Local Government Areas, 203 Wards, and 3,933 Polling Units in the state.

In this report, Sunday Vanguard explores the background facts surrounding the November 1, 2024 arraignment by the Federal Government of 76 persons, including 32 minors, who participated in the last countrywide #EndBadGovernance protests and engages senior legal minds on the appropriateness of a High Court judge taking the pleas of minors in his court notwithstanding the provisions of the 1999 Constitution and the Child Rights Act on the matter.

FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo has narrated how Chief Onyema Ugochukwu, a former Chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), dumped a fellow Igbo man, Dr Alex Ekwueme, to support his presidential bid in 1999