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Suspected herdsmen have sacked 400 pupils of Local Government Education Authority Primary School, Daudu in Mbatoho Chile, an island close to Benue State Government House of Makurdi local government area from their school. This happened at the commencement of Exercise Ayem A’ Kpatuma by the military to check the incursion of herdsmen into parts of Benue State. Mr. Otave Ephraim, the head teacher of the school on the Island, said “All my pupils who are close to 400, have been chased out of school and displaced due to the activities of the herdsmen who have taken over the entire island…

A 75-year-old man, who allegedly attempted to exhume a dead body was Tuesday granted bail of N100,000 by Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrate Court. The Magistrate, Mrs Modupe Afeniforo who gave the ruling, also granted the accused two sureties in like sum. Afeniforo said one of the sureties must be a civil servant not below level 8 and that sureties should reside within the jurisdiction of the court. Luiz, who reside at Orun-Ekiti, Ekiti state, pleaded not guilty to the one-count charge of unlawfully digging of grave. Earlier, Oriyomi Akinwale, the police prosecutor had told the court that the accused committed the…

More than 5,000 people were reportedly rendered homeless and 321 houses wrecked by rainstorm in North and South Ukelle, Yala local government area of Cross River State. The first downpour of the year that lasted over four hours was reportedly accompanied by fierce wind and thunderstorm and Ipolo, Mfuma, Wanudu, Ntrigom villages were affected. Mr. Vincent Egbe, the Community Relations Officer for the area, told Vanguard that many families are now sleeping in the open, while some are taking refuge with neighbours and relatives whose houses were not affected. His words: “The damage is widespread and affected many villages. It is…

Unknown gunmen have kidnapped the Village Head of Ikot Edet in Etim Ekpo local government area of Akwa Ibom State. He is Chief Mfon Udoessien who was said to have been abducted from his palace, Monday, after a fierce gun battle between the gunmen and the security agents drafted to provide security in the volatile village. It was learned that the monarch is a brother-in-law to a former Head of Civil Service in Akwa Ibom State, Mrs Cecilia Udoessien. A resident of the area, who is simply identified as Eno, told newsmen that the monarch, a retired primary school headmaster and…

A Nigerian university has developed new drugs to treat diabetes and cancer. Fatima Batul Muktar, Vice-Chancellor of Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State, who stated this at a press briefing to mark the third convocation of the university Monday, said the anti-diabetic drug has successfully passed pre-clinical stage and has gotten ”ethical approval for clinical trials by Kano State Hospital Management Board.” Salihu Ibrahim Isma’il, who is the researcher of the school’s Biochemistry department, developed the drugs, also confirmed this in an interview. Isma’il said the prevalence of diabetes and cancers motivated him into going into the research. He said he…

Analysts and callers in a private radio station in Uyo, Akwa Ibom capital have loathed Senator Ita Enang, the Senior Special Assistant to the President (Senate) on National Assembly Matters (Senate) for denying that the All Progressives Party-led Federal Government has no plan to re-introduce the abolished onshore/offshore dichotomy in revenue allocation or derivation. It was alleged that from the APC report on proposed restructuring, its recommendation intended to deprive the littoral states of Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Rivers, Delta and Lagos, among others of the derivation content of revenue allocation. The analysts and callers who spoke Tuesday on Inspiration FM,…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Reconciliation Committee headed by Senator Bola Tinubu may be reconstituted by National Executive Committee (NEC) members of the party to include two new members at a meeting billed to hold few hours from now in Abuja. Last night, the National caucus of the party held a meeting in Abuja and endorsed the decision to appoint two persons- one from North and another from South- into the committee. It is speculated that Chief Don Dick Etiebet from the South and Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko from the North are being considered for the committee. The NEC meeting…

Bukola Saraki, Senate President, Godwin Obaseki, Governor of Edo State, and other stakeholders have vowed to end irregular migration and human trafficking across the country. They spoke separately Monday in Benin during the Senate Roundtable on Migration and Human Trafficking in Benin City. The stakeholders include Abduraman Dambazzau, the Minister of Interior, the European Union (EU), United Kingdom, International Organization on Migration, the National Agency for the Prohibition on Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) and Civil Society Organisations. In his remarks, Governor Obaseki who hailed Saraki and the Senate for the initiative of holding the sensitisation session in the Edo State,…

Col. Joseph Achuzia (rtd), civil war veteran and Biafran warlord, is dead. Achuzia died Monday morning at the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Asaba, Delta State after a brief illness at the age of  90. One of his sons, Mr. Benedict Onyeka Achuzia, who spoke to newsmen, said 21-gun salute has been shot to traditionally announce the demise of the Ikemba of Asaba to indigenes of the town. He said his father passed on at about 8 a.m, adding that “it was something we never expected but it has happened.  It’s a sad incident. “My father was the best dad ever. I…

The National Executive Committee, NEC, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was held Monday with state chairmen of the party canvassing an extension of the tenure of the party executives at all levels. The campaign of the state chairmen came ahead of speculations that the NEC would dissolve the John Odigie-Oyegun led national executive of the party. That move, Vanguard learnt is, however, being strongly opposed by the majority of the governors despite the alleged support of the dissolution by President Muhammadu Buhari and the party’s lead trouble shooter, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Today’s NEC meeting is expected to set…