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• 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 …

The Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Doguwa, has said the legislature has appropriated sufficient funds to the nation’s security agencies to fight insecurity in the country. He also urged Nigerians to pray for the country since not all citizens can go out to fight the bandits and terrorists. Mr Doguwa stated this on Sunday while receiving an …

The Nigerian Governors Forum on Sunday picked holes in the claim by a former member of the House of Representatives and consultant of Paris Club, Ned Nwoko, that he paid some money to facilitate governance in some states, including conducting elections in Ekiti and Ondo States. The forum said it was a “desperate, spurious and futile advocacy” allegedly mounted and …

A Nigerian student studying in the United States, Noel Ifeanyi Alumona, has won the 2022 AFS Award for Young Global Citizens, and became the first African to win the prize since its inception in 1914.  The award was presented during the International Youth Day organized by the United Nations Global Communications Department, the AFS Intercultural Programs and The Youth Assembly …

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 …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday denied media reports that he had endorsed the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, for the 2023 presidential election. The reports followed Mr Tinubu’s out-of-the-blue call on the former president at his residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State on Wednesday. The two leaders did not disclose to journalists what they discussed during the …