Barring any last minutes change, academic activities may resume in public universities next week, as Federal Government has approved over N35.4 billion for the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

AHEAD of the February 16 presidential election, President Muhammadu Buhari, Monday, announced that he has handed over campaign activities to the national leader of the party, and Campaign Council co-chairman, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, while he concentrates on governance.

A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt on Monday restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from recognising any candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC ) for the 2019 General elections in Rivers State.

Mr Rotimi Amaechi’s former aide, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari has said that the recently released audio recording of the Minister of Transportation was a clear case of cut and paste and that the original were done ‘not in the context of negativity, but as a positive indication of a new Nigeria where pain will ultimately translate to gain.

THE Nigerian Army has explained that its action against Daily Trust yesterday,was because the media house revealed classified military information on war against terrorism,in the North East.

Gun-wielding soldiers have invaded and shut down Daily Trust’s office in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, Vanguard can confirm.

As the furore over the emergence of  the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) National Commissioner, Amina Zakari, as the head of collation for next month’s presidential election rages, the INEC chief says she is neither the niece nor the cousin of President Muhammadu Buhari.

The newly appointed head of election collation centre for the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for the 2019 elections, Mrs. Amina Zakari has denied having a consanguinity relationship with President Muhammadu Buhari.

The Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organization, PPCO, has said President Muhammadu Buhari’s admittance of an inter-marriage relationship with Amina Zakari, a national commissioner with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has vindicated its stance that she cannot be trusted with the collation of the 2019 Presidential election results.

The Federal Government says it will continue negotiation process with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Monday to resolve ongoing industrial action embarked by the striking lecturers.

Number one bestselling author and former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Pastor Reno Omokri, has released an audio clip he claims is the voice of the Transport Minister and Director-General of President Muhammadu Buhari campaign, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, saying terrible things about the President.

After more than eight days of hide-and-seek game between him and the police, who had surrounded his palatial Maitama residence, Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye, finally showed up, and presented himself to the police in Abuja.

The current upsurge in Boko Haram attacks on Nigerian Army units in Borno and Yobe states are not only as a result of inadequate weapons as being claimed but also a product of field commanders’ tactical mistakes and self-interests, Saturday Vanguard learned.

Maiduguri—A source, yesterday, revealed that two additional bodies of dead soldiers have been recovered in a surrounding bush after Saturday night attack on a military location at Buni Gari in Yobe by Boko Haram

THE South West Director for Buhari/Osinbajo Campaign Organisation, Mr. Olusola Oke, Thursday, insisted that the Yoruba would decide the next president of Nigeria in the forthcoming general elections.