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The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday protested against the decision of the Federal Government to scrap the post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. Warning that the scrapping “portends a serious danger for the quality of education in Nigeria, “the union also said the decision undermined the autonomy and powers of universities’ Senate as the highest policy-making body on academic matters, …

President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, expressed worry over the delay tactics adopted by judicial officers and lawyers to stall progress in the dispensation of justice, especially in the ongoing fight against trials of corruption suspects. He said inconclusive cases usually left negative impressions that crimes were a venture worth taking. The President, who spoke on the role of the judiciary in …

Barely 24 hours after the Acting Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris accused his predecessor, IGP Solomon Arase (rtd) of moving away 24 Police vehicles including the official IGP Staff Car, which is armoured plated and bullet proof, and the spare staff car, both of which are BMW’s, Vanguard can report authoritatively that both cars were sent to an auto …

A former Turkish air force commander has confessed to planning last week’s attempted military coup, the state-run Anadolu news agency reports. Gen Akin Ozturk was quoted as having told interrogators that he “acted with intention to stage a coup”. Photographs of the general published by Anadolu appeared to show several injuries to his head and upper body. The general had …

The Nigerian Army has on Sunday released a total of 249 cleared suspected Boko Haram terrorists and accomplices by the Joint Interrogation as approved by the Chief of Army Staff in Maiduguri. The Director of Army Public Relations (DAPR), Col. Sani Usman, in a statement on Monday, said that those cleared and released were 169 males, 46 women and 34 …

A Missouri man ambushed and killed three law officers and wounded three others in Baton Rouge on Sunday during a time when police nationwide and in the Louisiana city in particular have been on high alert after five officers were killed in a Dallas ambush July 7. Louisiana State Police announced last week that they had received threats of plots …

By Oladipo Airenakho Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has been appointed Chairman of the National Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress for the gubernatorial election holding in Edo State on September 10, 2016. APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, who inaugurated the Council in Benin City last weekend, said the party would win the election with ease, based …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has given condition for the 2016 admissions, saying it will only give approval “after appropriate screening of the candidates by the institutions.” The Registrar/Chief Executive of JAMB, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, said this in a statement on Sunday. Ojerinde said, “The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board wishes to state that the latest list of candidates …

The acting Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, says his predecessor, Solomon Arase, went away with 24 police vehicles while the seven Deputy Inspectors-General of Police, who retired alongside him, also carted away between seven and eight cars each. Idris stated that he had written Arase to return the cars, which included two official bullet-proof BMW 7 series cars, adding that …

Three police officers have been killed and three injured in a shooting in the southern US city of Baton Rouge. A suspect shot dead at the scene was thought to be the only gunman involved, police said.   Reports earlier suggested there was more than one gunman. There was no “active shooting scenario” in the city now, Louisiana Police Superintendent Mike …