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• We won’t succumb to blackmail -ASUU Two civil societies, the Nigerian Project Initiative (NPI) and the Initiative to Save Democracy (ISD) have threatened to mobilise other civil society groups for a showdown against the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over its decision to shut lecture halls until its demand for payment of six months salaries while its members were on …

Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, Omoyele Sowore, has described as unacceptable the attacks on Presidential candidates of other political parties, including one of the ‘fake Bishops’ who was present at the unveiling of the vice presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, Kashim Shettima. Sowore, while linking the attacks to supporters of the presidential candidate of the …

A Nigerian Air Force(NAF), fighter jet engaged in the ongoing counter insurgency operations in the north east have bombarded a logistic base and stronghold belonging to members of the Islamic States of West African Province(ISWAP), terrorists and killed scores of terrorists. The bombardment which took place at Sambisa Forest and the Tumbuns in Borno State, left several of the terrorists …

• Everything negative, situation pathetic, worst ever – PDP, LP presidential candidates Presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar and the Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Monday flayed the Federal Government over the insecurity and economic crisis confronting the nation, stating that Nigeria possessed all the negative indices that qualified it as a failed state. The two candidates …

Leadership of the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) has cautioned the northern youths, under the Arewa Youths Assembly (AYA) over inflammatory comments against a Niger Delta freedom fighter, Government Ekpemupolo, also known as Tompolo. IYC gave the warning in response to a statement credited to AYA questioning the capacity of Tompolo in handling the crude oil surveillance contract awarded by the Federal …

• Atiku: Everything negative is happening in Nigeria• 2023 will be about competence, not connection – Obi• APC will replicate Lagos, Borno wonders, says Shettima• Falana urges lawyers to end illegal arrest, detention of citizens The yearly general meeting of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), which opened yesterday in Lagos State with the theme: ‘Bold Transitions’, offered the leading presidential …

…Meeting could be make or mar for union …Take offers first, parents counsel ASUU The National Executive Council, NEC, meeting of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, will hold next Monday to decide on the offers by the Federal Government for it to end its ongoing strike. This is just as a member of the NEC told Vanguard in confidence …

Two Northern groups, Coalition of Arewa Civil Society Groups and the Amalgamated Arewa Youth Groups, on Tuesday traded words over the N4bn worth of pipeline surveillance contract awarded to ex-Niger Delta militant, Government Ekpemupolo otherwise known as ‘Tompolo’, by the Nigerian National Petroleum Limited. While one group was in full support of the award of the contract to the Niger …

The Peter Obi Support Network has described the claims by Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore Fulani Socio-Cultural Association that the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, is being sponsored by the Indigenous People of Biafra as the handiwork of the opponents of the former Anambra State governor. The National Secretary of the Miyetti Allah group,  Saleh Alhassan, had said the promoters …

Following the perceived stalemate that characterised the reconciliation committee set up to end the frosty relationship between the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, indications emerged, yesterday, that the party’s candidate may call the bluff of the governor and announce members of the Presidential Council Committee. This came on …