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President Muhammadu Buhari said Monday federal government will negotiate, rather than adopting military option to secure the release of the 110 students of Government Girls Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, abducted by Boko Haram insurgents about three weeks ago. Buhari told Rex Tillerson, visiting US Secretary of State at a closed-door meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja that the government was doing everything possible to secure their release. The President said Nigeria was working in concert with international organizations and negotiators to ensure that the girls were released unharmed by their captors. Buhari said: “We are trying to be careful.…

No fewer than six million students were denied admission in Nigeria in the last five years, the National Universities Commission, NUC, stated. Speaking Monday in Abuja while having in audience intelligentsia from Kogi West lobbying for upgrade of Federal College of Agriculture, Kabba, to a full-fledged university, Professor Abubakar Rasheed, Executive Secretary of NUC, explained that the number of university seekers got to the level due to acute shortage of space and capacities by the existing 161 universities in the country. A breakdown shows that from 2013 to 2017, 1.9 million gained admission out of 7.8 million university admission seekers…

A war against incessant threats to security of lives and property in Akwa Ibom State has been waged as the state governor, Mr. Udom Emmanuel, signs a prohibition order on the activities of secret cult groups and other unlawful societies in the state. Performing the brief ceremony, Monday at Government House, Uyo, the said that the order, which may be cited as “The Cultism and Other Violent Behaviour Prohibition Order 2018”, takes effect from March 12, 2018. He stated that the action was carried out in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Section 70 of the Criminal Code…

Five persons were reportedly beheaded in a land tussle between the villages of Bubuo and Okwabang in Boki local governemt area of Cross River State. The battle which started Saturday has led to the destruction of many houses and livestock. A resident stated that three persons from Bubuo were beheaded, while two people from Okwabang were also beheaded. He said as at Sunday evening many people had fled the area as youths from both communities freely engaged each others with guns and machetes. He said no police presence has been noticed as both sides are carrying on without any restraint,…

Chief Magistrate, Mrs N.A.J Ogunbona of the Ibadan Magistrate Court, Iyaganku- Ibadan, Oyo State capital, Monday rained curses on those who take pleasure in raping minors as a 52-year-old man was brought before her for raping a nine-year old girl. The accused, Mr Gabriel Olaniyan, arraigned on a count charge of having carnal knowledge of the minor told the court how he lured the girl into a secluded place with N10 cookies before raping her, but he dismissed the insinuation that he actually defiled the girl for ritual purpose. In the charge‎ sheet signed by Fawole Funke, the accused was…

The burial reception in honor of a 111-year-old woman (name withheld) Boboroku community of Jesse in Ethiope West local government area of Delta State turned awry weekend as a plain clothed policeman reportedly slumped and died during a clash between the community youths and a team of soldiers drafted from the 19 Battalion, Koko to maintain peace. It was gathered that there was rowdiness during the sharing of food and drinks for guests at the party and in the process some of the youths allegedly made attempts to disarm two soldiers who had tried to restore orderliness. One person was…

Babatunde Fashola, Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Monday said he was not afraid of going to the law court over allegations of preferential treatment offered two power generating companies. Fashola also raised the alarm over an alleged plot by the power Generation Companies, GENCOs, to scuttle the current efforts being made to improve on electricity supply in the country. He made this known at the 25th Monthly Meeting with Operators in the Power Sector hosted by Ibom Power at the Ibom Hall, IBB Way, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State while he was reacting to a suit filed by the…

Indications emerged last night that no fewer than 145 persons have been arrested in various parts of the North, following the crackdown ordered by the federal government on suspected militias causing mass deaths in some states in the region. A top source, who gave an update to Vanguard last night, also hinted that the militias killed no fewer than 30 policemen mobilised by the government to quell the onslaught. The official hinted that the bulk of those areas was in Benue, Kaduna and Nasarawa states, following the order given by President Muhammadu Buhari to security agencies to fish out perpetrators of…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Benue as afterthought and needless, several months after the massacre of Nigerians, serving only as a large billboard of his administration’s gross insensitivity to the plight of Nigerians. The party, however, said its mega rally, which held in Dutse, Jigawa State, today, has opened a new vista for the party as the true hope for Nigerians. The PDP, in a statement by Kola Ologbondiyan, its National Publicity Secretary, on Monday, said it is appalling and highly disheartening that a President can only visit his distressed citizens after a…

Unknown gunmen Monday kidnapped two clergymen in Ikot Akpa Idem, Ukanafun local government area of Akwa Ibom State, Straightnews has gathered. Pastor Mfon Akpan Udo Nneke, Area Superintendent of The Apostolic Church, Ikot Akpa Idem was said to have been kidnapped at 5 a.m. by the gunmen while he was preparing for Women Fellowship prayer meeting. Nneke who hails from Idung Nneke is a cousin to Dr. Idongesit Umoh, the founder of Sure Polytechnic, Idung Nneke in Ukanafun. However, Umoh was abducted from his country home last year, ransom paid but his abductors amputated his right hand. A family source…