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The Flying Eagles of Nigeria, Monday, crashed out of the 2019 FIFA U20 World Cup after losing 2-1 to Young Terranga Lions of Senegal in a round of 16 game. Nigeria fell to two first-half goals from Senegal. Although they pulled one back early in the second half, Paul Aigbogun’s boys could not get an equaliser. The loss ends Nigeria’s 2019 FIFA U20 World Cup where they failed to sparkle after struggling to progress from the group stage. With just four points, the Flying Eagles could only manage to reach the round of 16 as one of the four best…

The battle for the juicy Speakership seat of the House of Representatives is currently taking a new twist as the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is showing a strong interest in the office. The outgoing Speaker, Yakubu Dogara of the PDP, is said to be in a fierce battle to retain the position he dominated for four years.. This is coming as Governor Muhammad Yahaya of Gombe State has approved the appointment of the immediate past Vice Chancellor of the University of Maiduguri (UniMaid), Prof. Ibrahim Njodi, as the Secretary to the State Government (SSG). Director of Administration and Finance,…

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the establishment of state and local government police, the Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commission and Chairman Presidential Panel on SARS Reform, Anthony Ojukwu, said on Monday. The President also approved the dismissal of 37 police officers as recommended by the National Human Rights Commission Presidential Special Panel on SARS Reforms. Speaking during the submission of the report of the Presidential Panel on the reform of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, of the Nigeria Police, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Ojukwu said the panel received 113 complaints on alleged human rights violations from across the country…

An estimated 1.9 million Nigerians with majority from South-South zone of the country are living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus , HIV, according to the 2018 National HIV/AIDS Indicator and Impact Survey, NAIIS, results. Estimates of corresponding year showed that more than three million Nigerians were living with HIV while the national HIV prevalence stood at 2.8 per cent. Conducted by the National Agency for the Control of AIDS, NACA, Federal Ministry of Health, UNAIDS and other international partners, NAIIS has confirmed 1.4 per cent as new national HIV prevalence among Nigerian adults aged 15-49 years. Launching the Revised National HIV…

The Akwa Ibom North West Petition Tribunal in Uyo has fixed June 10 to commence trial on petitions filed by Senator Godswill Akpabio seeking to invalidate Engr. Christopher Ekpenyong as legitimate winner of the February 23 senatorial elections. The tribunal concluded its pre-hearing session last Friday. The session, which afforded the tribunal opportunity to meet the parties with a view of setting up modalities to be adopted in the actual hearing of substantive issues in dispute. Counsel to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Robert Egwono Emukpoeruo SAN, submitted to the tribunal Schedules of Electoral Forms and INEC Adhoc Staff.…

By Gab Efo Since the beginning of the fourth Republic on May 29, 1999, the politics of Zamfara State, Nigeria’s North West, has largely been dominated by Alhaji Ahmad Rufai Sani, the Yariman Bakura. A former staff of the Central Bank of Nigeria who was elected as the first civilian executive Governor of the state under the platform of the defunct All Peoples Party, APP, from 1999 to 2007. He served two terms and at the end of his second term nominated and sponsored his deputy, Alhaji Maimuda Shinning to succeed him under the slogan “Dan giwa, giwa ne” meaning…

Akwa Ibom State has grabbed the fifth position among the front runners in the highly indebted states in Nigeria for the external debt stock in 2018 with N215.099 billion, according to latest report by Economic Confidential. The report further shows that Lagos ranked first has N513,514,416,769.20 as external debt and N 530,243,773,934.40 as domestic debt, bringing the total debt to N1,043,758,190,703.60. According to Economic Confidential researchers on the Annual High Indebted States (AHIS) on External and Domestic Debts as of 2018, “the amount owed by Lagos State represents about twenty (20) percent of the total debts owed by the 36…

Ahead of the inauguration of the 9th National Assembly and election of presiding officers, the Senate Caucus of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sunday, denied insinuations that the Deputy Senate President position was being offered members of the party in the Senate. According to PDP senators, no meeting was held to cede the Deputy Senate President’s position to the party. Speaking with Vanguard Sunday, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe (Abia South), spokesperson of the Senate Caucus of PDP, said the caucus was together and would work in unison. Abaribe said nothing was wrong with the PDP senators supporting some of the aspirants to the…

Catholic bishops Sunday in Lagos were all unanimous in their call on the Federal Government for an urgent intervention to resolve the mounting insecurity in the country. The Catholic bishops, including the current president of Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, CBCN, Most Rev. Augustine Akubeze and two former presidents, Anthony Cardinal Okogie and Coadjutor Archbishop of Abuja, Most Rev. Ignatius Kaigama, decried the seeming inability of the Federal Government to arrest the insecurity in the country for the peace, unity and development of the nation. The bishops who were in Lagos for the 60th birthday Thanksgiving service of the Catholic…

The nation’s power losses have risen to N135 billion in the first quarter of 2019, indicating an increase of 17 per cent against N112.3 billion recorded in the corresponding period of 2018. The compilation of data obtained by Vanguard from Power Advisory Team, office of Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, showed that insufficient gas supply, distribution infrastructure and transmission facilities were the major constraints responsible for the loses. A breakdown showed that in the first quarter of 2019, the sector lost N41.4 billion, N44.4 billion and N49.4 billion in January, February and March respectively, against N40.4, N35.5, and N36.4 billion…