By Dayo Johnson Akure The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Prof. Dayo Faduyile of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of the Ondo South Senatorial District bye-election held on Saturday. Faduyile was a former National President of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) and currently…

…Officer-in-Charge of the Violence Crime Response Unit (VCRU). The operation involved personnel from the Anglo-Jos Division, the Anti-Cybercrime and Narcotic Unit, the Monitoring Unit and the Eagle Eye Patrol Team. According to the police, 25 suspects were arrested during the exercise, while exhibits including cannabis,…

…Democratic Party, PDP, says Nigeria’s democracy has reduced to buying of votes. Spokesperson for the party in Ekiti State, Atofarati Sanya, made this allegation in an interview on Arise Television on Saturday night. He was reacting to the 2026 Ekiti state governorship election which took place across the state on Satur…

…of Doma United's preparations ahead of the new Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, season. The Savannah Tigers aim to assemble a competitive squad capable of meeting its objectives in the top- flight after securing promotion back to the NPFL. NPFL: Doma United assures new players of equal opportunity

Rivers Angels head coach, Tosan Blankson has taken full responsibility for his team's underwhelming campaign. The Port Harcourt-based club failed to lift the 2025-26 Nigeria Women Football League, NWFL, title. Rivers Angels also missed out on a chance to defend the President Federation Cup title. They were eliminated f…

…commitment to enhance security. A statement signed by DSP Maureen Chinaka, the Spokesperson of the Abia Police Command, explained that the State-wide enforcement operation was targeting unregistered vehicles and vehicles bearing obscured, defaced, altered, or unlawfully covered registration number plates. “Within the p…

…general elections in 2027. Addressing a press briefing in Port-Harcourt, the Spokesperson of Beke faction , Mr Darlington Nwauju, presented seven demands before the party. He asked, amongst others, that: " All nominations, representation, communication, including decisions reached on behalf of the Rivers State APC betw…

…debate over whether government should negotiate with kidnappers has become intensely personal. It is no longer merely a security conversation. It is a battle between hope and heartbreak. Previously, the issue had resolved around demand for ransom by terrorists to which many families complied to save their loved ones in…

…environment" around the kidnappers. The operation involved a combination of military personnel, intelligence officers and other security agencies working in coordination to prevent the insurgents from breaking through the security cordon. Yet containment has not translated into a swift rescue. The forest itself present…

…That mandate was annulled, he noted. "Lives were lost defending it. A man went to prison for it and never came home. But the idea survived," Saraki declared. "And today we stand on Democracy Day, which exists only because ordinary Nigerians refused to surrender their belief in the ballot." Saraki opened his address del…

The caucus announced that Afam Ogene, a senior lawmaker and former journalist, will serve as its spokesperson and help promote accountability, transparency, and democratic governance.

…violently attacked some voters in the area. According to Ambassador Bejide, the armed personnel dragged his driver from his vehicle packed nearby and assaulted him, leaving the aide with severe injuries as he was rushed to the hospital for medical treatment. The State Commissioner of Police arrived at the troubled spot…

…that someone who took ransom to the bandits was murdered by the assailants. "The person who brought the ransom, you still killed him and spared only one person," Igboho furiously said, while warning that such incidents must not repeat. A few hours after Igboho’s ultimatum, a video clip emerged on social media showing m…

The caucus, at a press conference on Wednesday, had asked President Bola Tinubu to suspend all his 2027 political activities, declare a six-month National Security and Economic Recovery Plan and lead the country or resign.

…7.62mm live ammunition during a security operation in the state. The command's spokesperson, DSP Yazid Abubakar, disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists on Saturday. 6. The Nigeria Customs Service, Apapa Area Command, has foiled an attempt to distribute expired pharmaceutical products into the Niger…

…I'm an original indigene of Igboho land. "You kidnapped a pregnant woman, and the person who brought the ransom, you killed him and killed the pregnant woman, for what? In Igboho? You people are not even afraid of me in my father's land? "This should be the last, and it must end. My father has urged me to address you p…

…he presides over, President Bola Tinubu looks run-down. The saying "like father, like son" is mainly pejorative but it will be factual saying "like Nigeria, like its leader". But the majority of Nigerians aren't asking after his health or showing concern for his well-being. They just want him to "deliver". But if the p…

…de la crème. Northern Nigerians are dying in droves, mostly at the hands of their own sons who have made the thick forests their comfortable abode. The most poignant recent tragedy is that of General Rabe Abubakar. He was murdered in captivity after being abducted alongside his wife near the Matazu area of Katsina Stat…

…stark reminders of how the military once responded decisively to attacks on its personnel. The same force helped restore order in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Today, that sting appears missing. Although the military eventually secured the release of General Rabe's widow, the bandits had already done their worst. Edo Shuts…

…resulting to her bleeding to death."(How woman was stabbed to death by mother of son's girlfriend, Sunday Vanguard, 21 July, 2019) The expression that interests us is resulting to. The expression occurs in the following context: "resulting to her bleeding to death." This is an expression that has engaged our attention…

…in it, came into force. But illicit traffic in slaves continued till much later. The reason for this was that though the slave-trade was abolished in 1808, slavery remained legal in British overseas possessions until 1833, when this too was abolished. The abolition of slavery involved Great Britain in enormous expendit…

…by the armaments a government defence procures, but by national food security and personal safety of the people who make up the nation. Today, all those have vamoosed from the Nigerian equation. By the same token, national security is not achieved by scrubbing stories that embarrass the presidency from the front pages…

…blame or point fingers." We will! Our reluctance to name and shame is one of the reasons we have found ourselves wallowing in this insecurity bind. Enough! He also said, "Crime has no ethnicity." It has! Except we want to keep deceiving ourselves, we know the origin of the insurgency whacking the country. We also know…

…rise and fall of civilisations and prosperous polities. Scholars-from Acemoglu and Robinson in Why Nations Fail to Herbst and Mills' Africa's Third Liberation-have all pointed to the role of the elite in the fashioning of inclusive and participatory institutions that activate economic growth and national progress. To e…

…a development he has firmly dismissed as false and misleading. In a video message he personally released, Duru described the trending clips as part of what he called a "wicked narrative," insisting that the claims about his health condition were completely fabricated. He maintained that he has never been in the severe…