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Nigerians have taken to social media to lament the collapse of the national electricity grid which resulted in a blackout in the country. The PUNCH had reported that the national electricity grid collapsed again on Friday evening, making it the third time the grid had collapsed within the space of one month. They lamented the recurrence of the national grid …

Gunmen who attacked a Kaduna-bound train 10 days ago have threatened to kill the captives if the government does not quickly accede to their demands. The gunmen issued the threat in a video they released stating the reason they freed the managing director of the Bank of Agriculture, Alwan Hassan, who they abducted alongside an unknown number of people during their …

The foremost Director-General of the National Directorate of Employment, Chief Chuku Wachuku, has advised the Federal Government against sharing money like “Father Christmas”, but rather provide the enabling environment for the private sector to thrive and then create jobs for the teeming labour market. Wachuku who gave the advice in a media chat with Vanguard in Umuahia, regretted that “there …

• Terrorists still contacting families to demand ransom• Pastors protest attack, killings by terrorists in Kaduna• Bandits kill businessman, abduct daughter, others in Katsina• Your days are numbered, Defence Chief, Irabor warns terrorists One of the victims of last week’s terrorists’ attack on a Kaduna-bound train, Sergeant Muhammad Haruna Funtua, has died from injuries sustained in the assault. The ex-soldier was …

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Friday, slated May 18 to rule on an application the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, filed to be released on bail, pending the determination of the treasonable felony charge the Federal Government entered against him. Trial Justice Binta Nyako adjourned to rule on the application after …

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says 70 per cent of children in schools are not learning, a development which must be addressed by stakeholders. The Communication Specialist, UNICEF, Mr Geoffrey Njoku, made this known in Kano on Friday at a two-day Media Dialogue on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Njoku said no country could focus on its SDGs in isolation …

• Falana offers free legal service, says Soyinka exercised his freedom of expression• ‘APC, Buhari insensitive, callous, should have rewarded Omisore with the envoy to Ukraine’• ‘I never campaigned for Buhari, only asked Nigerians to vote out Jonathan in 2015’ Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, again came down hard on the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) over the appointment of ex-Osun …

WARRI – The Supreme Egbesu Order has demanded an open apology from the Area Youths Assembly, and insists that High Chief Government Ekpemupolo a.k.a Tompolo is not an enemy of Nigeria. Arewa Youths This was contained in a statement signed by Apostle Bodmas Prince Kemepadei, Superintendent Officer. According to the statement, “We read with disdain, the unguarded and malicious statements …

Kanu, in the application he filed through his team of lawyers led by Chief Mike Ozekhome(SAN), maintained that the charge against him was legally defective. He argued that the court lacked the jurisdiction to try him on the strenght of an incompetent charge. Ozekhome told the court that his client was “unlawfully, brutally and extraordinarily renditioned from Kenya without his …

*Says he only urged Nigerians to vote out Jonathan Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has denied asking Nigerians to vote for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015. Following the poor performance of the President Buhari-led administration, characterized by hardship and worsening insecurity,  Soyinka has been at the receiving end of criticisms from Nigerians.  Some  Nigerians  have been blaming him for the role he played in …