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Theresa May is set to become the UK’s next prime minister after Andrea Leadsom pulled out of the contest to become Conservative Party leader. The timing of the handover of power from David Cameron is currently being discussed, but could be within days. Mrs May, 59, who backed staying in the EU, has been home secretary since 2010. Mrs Leadsom, …

Five police officers were killed in Dallas, Texas when a gunman opened fire at officers during a peaceful protest over fatal police shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota. Seven more officers and two civilians were wounded by the shooter, who fired from an elevated position in a parking garage. The gunman was 25-year-old Micah Johnson. He died after …

Should the ongoing strike embarked upon by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria be allowed to linger beyond Wednesday, most depots in Apapa, Lagos, will run out of fuel stock, our correspondent has learnt. Following the commencement of the strike on Thursday, loading at Apapa depots, where many marketers get petroleum products to other states, has …

The Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, weekend, said since President Muhammadu Buhari had decided to shun the demand for legitimate dialogue with militants and stakeholders on the Niger Delta question, it would continue to encumber all avenues by him to export crude oil from the region. Avengers, in an exclusive interview with Vanguard, disclosed that the struggle has entered a new …

Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Osagie Ize-Iyamu has narrated how he and a few others braced the odds in 2007 to make Comrade Adams Oshiomhole the governor of Edo State. Ize-Iyamu, who said this in Auchi, noted that alongside Chief Tom Ikimi, he fought the battle that made Oshiomhole governor. He spoke at his party’s flagging-off …

Former Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Vincent Ogbulafor, has blamed the party’s crisis on former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. He also said PDP had a zoning pattern that had worked for it in the last 16 years, stressing that the best thing Jonathan should have done was to support a northern candidate in 2015. Ogbulafor, who spoke in …

Yunusa Dahiru, the young man accused of abducting 14-year Ese Oruru, a Delta State indigene based in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, finally left custody at the weekend after spending over four months in Okaka Prisons in the state capital. A reliable source said that Dahiru was immediately taken to Kano, where he hails from, in company of a team of his …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Sunday said the point system copied from its website as criteria for admission into tertiary institutions in the country and currently circulating was a mere illustration. This was contained in a statement by the board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, in Lagos. According to the statement, the admission of candidates into …

A former Abia State Governor, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, on Friday said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption war was not selective as being perceived in some quarters. According to him, the President has the right to demand explanation on how the nation’s money was spent by those being investigated. Addressing journalists after paying a visit to a former Military President, …

Abia State governorship crisis turned dramatic yesterday as two divisions of the same court gave conflicting orders on the fate of the embattled Governor Okezie Ikpeazu. While a Federal High Court Abuja which had on June 27 sacked the governor from office held that he remained sacked until a higher court decides otherwise, another Federal High Court sitting in Owerri, …