By Kingsley Omonobi – Abuja An Indian businessman, Vyapak Nutal, has been taken into custody for interrogation by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, over the smuggling of 134,700 bottles of Codeine syrup into the country through the land border between Nigeria and Niger Republic in Sokoto state. The suspect had loaded […]

On November 28, 2021, the sad news of a 12-year-old student of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos, Sylvester Oromoni, who was alleged to have died of injuries sustained from beating from fellow students for his refusal to join their secret cult group, broke.

Benue State is currently home to over 1.5 million Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, who are holed-up and scattered in various camps and host communities in parts of the state with children accounting for close to 50 per cent of that figure.

By Ozioruva Aliu Leaders of seven communities in Edo State have called on the state government and security agencies to save them from those they termed criminal herdsmen terrorising them. They lamented that their areas have been besieged by the herders who they accused of kidnapping, killing, raping and destroying their farms. The affected places […]

By Ibrahim Hassan-Wuyo Alhaji Hassan Danbaba, grandson of the late Sir Ahmadu Bello , the Sardauna of Sokoto and Premier of defunct Northern Nigeria, slumped and was pronounced dead in Kaduna.  Sunday Vanguard gathered that Danbaba, who was the traditional title holder of Magajin Garin Sokoto, slumped in  Kaduna Hotel and died yesterday. A source […]