Battle for control of Legislature fierce between Democrats and Republicans in US election
By Danusa Ocholi It is expected to be one of the fiercest mid-term elections in the history of the United States. Results are being declared in the US midterm elections - the battle for control of Congress is hanging in the balance The Republicans are likely to take control of the House of Representatives, according to projections, but the Senate...
Rivers police raid hideout, arrest 51 suspected robbers
No fewer than 51 suspected criminals were arrested when a combined team of security officials raided their hideout near a brothel along Azikiwe Street in Mile 2 area of Diobu, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. It was learnt that the arrest followed a distress call to the police that the hoodlums were robbing residents at gunpoint and carting away their mobile...
Controversy surrounds delay of PDP campaign funding
A report of inadequate funding for the Peoples Democratic Party Campaign Council may be true if the words of a member of the party’s National Executive Committee are anything to go by. The South-West PDP chieftain who spoke with The PUNCH anonymously said he’s not surprised that funding has come up for mention, saying the presidential candidate of the party,...
NDLEA arrests 21 suspected drug dealers in Rivers
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency said its operatives had arrested a suspected drug kingpin, Damion Onuoha, during a raid at Elele Alimini town in Emuoha Local Government Area of Rivers State. The agency said the suspect, aged 40, was arrested at about 3.30pm on Monday with 1.6 kg of white and brown Methamphetamine, while the sum of N650,700 was...
COP27: Nigeria to get £95m as UK increases climate adaptation budget
The United Kingdom has said Nigeria would get a £95 million investment fund to support climate-resilient agriculture, CRA, in the country. CRA uses existing natural resources through crop and livestock production systems to achieve long-term higher productivity and farm incomes under climate variabilities. The UK government made the new commitment while announcing an increase in the climate adaptation budget to £1.5...
10 dead, scores missing, houses razed as soldiers, youths clash
•Only shrines were destroyed —Army •IDP camps spring up in Ohafia as Army invades more communities •Gunmen attack police checkpoint in Anambra •Police detain soldier for stabbing creditor to death in Umuahia UMUAHIA—Barely 24 hours after soldiers and youths clashed in Izombe, Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State which left many dead, no fewer than 10 persons have again, been reported killed...
Half-salary: ASUU ends NEC meeting, rules out another strike
•Says union awaits outcome of Gbajabiamila’s intervention •FG attempting to turn lecturers to casual workers, says ASUU President, Osodeke THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU,ended its Natural Executive Committee, NEC meeting late Monday (yesterday),with a resolution not to embark on another strike, following the payment of half salaries to members by the federal government. “Rather, the union, according to Vanguard source,...
Enugu APC Reps candidate dies in auto crash
The House of Representatives candidate of the All Progressives Congress Nsukka/Igbo-Eze South, Enugu Federal Constituency, Mr Ejikeme Omeje, died in an auto crash on Tuesday morning. Omeje, a pharmacist and top APC chieftain in Enugu North Senatorial district died along Eden Ani/Nsukka road, near El-Rina hotel, Nsukka. Although, police or Federal Road Safety Corps have not officially confirm the accident, eyewitnesses...
Police plaza gutted by fire in Nasarawa
Property estimated at millions of naira this morning got destroyed by fire at the POWA Plaza, in Lafia. Vanguard gathered that the fire incident was as a result of electricity spark in one of the shops around 1 am on Tuesday. Most of the properties in the building belonging to the Nigeria Police were destroyed before the arrival of the Nasarawa...
Governor Ishaku laments over huge losses by rice farmers
By Danusa Ocholi Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku, has bemoaned the huge losses incurred by rice farmers in the State as a result of the flood which devastated the area recently. Governor Ishaku lamented in an interview on a national television monitored in Abuja on a Monday, that “a big time farmer in my State lost as much as 100...
