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Counsel to the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Mr. Aloy Ejimakor has expressed disappointment that Kanu’s suit for the enforcement of his fundamental human rights has not been re-assigned to a new Judge. Vacation judge, Justice KCJ Okereke of the Abia State High Court had on September adjourned the suit for reassignment on Thursday, …

Missouri on Tuesday evening executed Ernest Johnson, 61, an inmate convicted of murdering three people in the 1990s, after the U.S. Supreme Court denied Johnson’s emergency appeal for a stay of execution. The Holy See had also advocated for a halt to the execution. In an unsigned order on Tuesday evening, the Supreme Court denied Johnson’s appeal for a stay …

*Event holding ahead of Climate Conference to be hosted by UK *VP meeting COP26 President-Designate at Whitehall Friday Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN will today leave Abuja for London, the United Kingdom where he is billed to represent President Muhammadu Buhari at a United Nations High-Level event on the Energy Transition in Africa agenda with a special focus on Nigeria. …

Edo State Government, on Thursday, commenced another phase of demolition of illegal structures and eave extensions in parts of Benin Metropolis, in line with the government’s urban renewal drive. The exercise focused on the demolition of eave extensions, mostly in business environments, in the Government Reservation Area (GRA).             Officials of the Edo State Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development …

Edo State branch of the Peoples Democratic Party has reacted, with outright condemnation, to the purported suspension of Chief Dan Orbih, Edo North Senatorial Chairman of the party and 5 others, describing it as unconstitutional and a joke taken too far. The reaction was contained in a statement signed by PDP State Publicity Secretary, Mr. Chris Osa Nehikhare and made …

World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday unveiled an $8 billion dollar pathway out of the COVID-19 pandemic, to facilitate vaccines’ accessibility to everyone, everywhere. The UN Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the global COVID-19 vaccination strategy aims to inoculate 40 per cent of people, in all countries, by the end of 2021 and 70 per …

Ologbotsere descendants of Warri Kingdom have set up a seven-man committee of elders to revisit issues around the title of Ologbotsere, saying that the family is not at war with anybody. The spokesman of the family Mr Alex Eyengho made this known yesterday after a meeting of some members of the family at the residence of Ayiri Emami, the Vanguard …

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Edo State Commissioner in the Public Complaints Commission (PCC), Oladele Bankole-Balogun has called on the governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki to practically engage leaders and stakeholders of the party to chart the way forward for the party. According to the report by Vanguard News Nigeria, Bankole-Balogun was reacting to …

The National President of the Middle Belt Forum, Dr. Bitrus Pogu has said that the Federal Government’s threat to impose a state of emergency on Anambra State ahead of the coming governorship election is unacceptable and unconstitutional. Dr. Pogu, who spoke to Vanguard on Wednesday in Makurdi, advised that if the security situation in the state was getting out of …

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has said Nigerian citizens below the age of 18 would not be allowed to own a Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) card. The commission revealed this in a recent publication on its official website. The draft copy of the modified registration of Telephone Subscribers Regulations as seen by Vanguard, revealed that only subscribers above the age of 18 …