Monday, 23 December, 2024

Month: May 2023


In reply please quote Ref No. CZ.5300/FPRD/FHQ/ABJ/VOL.5/61 Date: May 17, 2023 The Director of News……………………………. Orders Prompt, Arrest, Investigation of Culprits, Warns Non-State Actors The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, CFR, has condemned in its totality the callous Read more…


No fewer than 20 persons have been killed in two communities of Fungzai and neighbouring Kubat in the newly created district of Bwai in the Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State in North Central Nigeria. According to sources in Read more…


A civil society organization under the aegis of the Incorporated Trustees of Advocacy for Societal Rights Advancement and Development Initiative, ASRADI, on Tuesday, approached the Federal High Court in Abuja with a suit that is seeking to halt the scheduled Read more…


A Chief Magistrates’ Court 1 sitting in Bauchi, on Tuesday, admitted a Bauchi-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Idris Abdulaziz, to N1 million bail bond with three sureties. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Abdulaziz was arraigned before the court Read more…


The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Tuesday, gave reasons it resorted to the trial of the suspended DCP Abba Kyari and his co-defendants behind closed doors. The counsel for the NDLEA, Mr Sunday Joseph, told newsmen who were Read more…


President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has met with the presidential candidate of the New Nigerian People’s Party, NNPP, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso on a peace talk. Vanguard gathered that the duo met for hours in Paris, capital of France, on Monday. ecall Read more…


A Sabo-Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos State, on Tuesday, ordered the remand of afrobeat singer Seun Kuti for alleged assault on a police officer on the Third Mainland Bridge, Lagos. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Adeola Olatubosun, held that Kuti should Read more…


Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have agreed to separate meetings with a delegation of leaders from six African countries to discuss a possible plan to end the war in Ukraine, South Africa’s president said Tuesday. South Read more…


By Ezeakukwu Emmanuel Nsoedo When the incumbent Chief Medical Director (CMD) went about canvassing for the position, he articulated his vision, which for all purposes, appeared generic and bland to a discerning mind because it sounded too good to be Read more…


From Ifeoma Ejiofor There would have been a breach of peace in Orumba South Local Goverment Area of Anambra State but for the managerial ability of the State Commissoner for Agriculture, Dr Forster Ihejiifor, the congress committee chairman of the Read more…


Vice Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, has said that Nigeria’s constitution must be followed to the letter in electing president. Datti, who spoke on Monday at a conference organised by the Coalition of Nigerians living Read more…


THE African Agricultural Technology Foundation, AATF, weekend, explained why former President Goodluck Jonathan was appointed ‘Africa Ambassador for Agricultural Technology’, which was based on the indelible agricultural initiatives he reeled out to take Nigeria’s agricultural sector to an enviable height Read more…