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The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command on Saturday on Saturday explained why its operatives dispersed the June 12 protesters at the Gudu area of the city. Police operatives deployed to various parts of the city dispersed the protesters with canisters of teargas on Saturday morning. The command’s spokesperson, Yusuf Mariam, who spoke on the development in a statement, said police operatives...

A Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Alpha jet has conducted offensive aerial bombardments around Genu town in Niger State, eliminating many in a convoy of fleeing armed bandits. Sources said some herds of rustled cows were also killed by airstrikes of the NAF jet, which was scrambled from a military base in Katsina State. One of the bombs allegedly strayed at a...

The Danish Football Association has confirmed that Christian Eriksen is “awake” in hospital after collapsing during Denmark’s Euro 2020 opener against Finland on Saturday. The 29-year-old received CPR before the players were taken off the pitch and the match was halted. The Inter Milan star was then rushed to the hospital and his condition is said to have been “stabilised” according...

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Saturday, charged universities in the country to devote greater attention to entrepreneurship trainings in order to produce graduates that will create jobs, not job seekers. Buhari gave the charge in Nsukka during the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) 49th convocation ceremony for the conferment of masters degree, doctorate degree and award of honorary doctorate on four...

Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, Saturday said the state will not resuscitate any grazing route in order to check herders/farmers clashes. Diri who was reacting to the recent directive by President Muhammadu Buhari for states to revive cattle grazing routes across the country, explained that  Bayelsa will not consider such idea after prohibiting open grazing. Speaking during a broadcast monitored...

Residents of states in the South-East on Saturday shunned the June 12 rally organized by youths to protest bad governance and worsening insecurity in the country. This was in contrast to the situation in the South-West where security operatives struggled to maintain law and order in cities across the region. Unlike the sit-at-home order given by the proscribed Indigenous People of...

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state yesterday said the state is currently facing the worst humanitarian crisis in recent time with over 1.5 million Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, arising from ceaseless attacks on communities in the state by armed herdsmen. He lamented that the government had been overwhelmed and unable to cope with the situation and urgently needed help to...

Property owners in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, have continued to groan over recent demolition of “illegal structures” across the town by the state government. They are accusing the government of being selective in its approach for the exercise. Mostly affected in the ongoing exercise are traders across various markets. The traders’ union in the state claimed that over 10,000...

Israel Adesanya has beaten Marvin Vettori via unanimous decision (50-45, 50-45, 50-45) in the main event of UFC 263 on Saturday night at a sold-out Gila River Arena. Vettori was one of his toughest middleweight tests but he removed all prior doubt to take the night in the entertaining rematch. With the victory, Adesanya successfully defended his UFC middleweight title. He evaded...

With barely two weeks to the governorship primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Anambra state; a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has nullified the South-East Zonal Congresses which held on March 6th, 2021. The plaintiff, Samuel Anyakorah had approached Justice Adegbola Adeniyi of the High Court of Justice, Abuja Division, seeking among others, the nullification of the...