Health groups reject Tobacco Control Act amendment bill
…Warn proposed law could allow online sales of vapes, nicotine products By John Alechenu ABUJA — The Nigeria Tobacco Control Community, a coalition of more than 100 civil society organisations and health advocates, has rejected the National Tobacco Control Act (Amendment) Bill 2025, warning that the proposed legislation could weaken existing safeguards against tobacco and […]
Tension in Bayelsa over INEC refusal to declare re-run polls’ result
By Samuel Oyadongha Yenagoa-The refusal of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to announce the result of Ekeremor constituency II re-run election into the Bayelsa State House of Assembly is now causing tension in the state. The court of appeal sitting in Port Harcourt had ordered INEC to conduct a re-run between the candidates of […]
Amnesty: Uduaghan warns militants to surrender arms
By Festus Ahon UGHELLI – Delta State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has warned militants and all individuals in possession of illegal arms to submit their arms before the October 4, 2009, deadline given by the Federal Government for the submission of all illegal weapons. Uduaghan, who spoke at Otu-Jeremi, headquarters of Ughelli South local government […]
Abacha posters flood Kano
By AbdulSalam Muhammad KANO – Colourful and intimidating posters of Muhammad Abacha, Eldest son of the late Head of State, Sani Abacha, flooded Kano streets, yesterday, lending credence to his preparation to publicly declare his party soon. Muhammad Abacha had two months ago declared before journalists in Kano his intention to join partisan politics to […]
EFCC invites UNIBEN’s Governing Council chairman
By Gabriel Enogholase BENIN – A new dimension had been added to the selection process of a substantive Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin, with the invitation of the Chairman of the Governing Council of the university Prof. Mvendega Jibo, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Vanguard reliably gathered that the invitation to […]
Sultan urges FG, ASUU to resolve strike
Sokoto — The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Saád Abubakar III, has appealed to the Federal Governmnet and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to urgently resolve their differences to enable the universities to re-open for normal academic activities. In his Eid-el-Fitr message yesterday to the Nigerian Muslim faithful, he said the three-month-old ASUU strike was […]
