Nigeria Breaking News
Dr. Kazeem Bello is one of the founders of Nigeria in the Diaspora Organisation, NIDO, in the United States (US). In this interview, Bello provides a broader understanding of the ongoing deportation of undocumented immigrants by President Donald Trump, situating the place of undocumented Nigerians in the issue. Bello, who speaks in his personal capacity, …
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) says it will introduce its contactless passport application system in some European countries to ease the burden of passport acquisition and renewal for Nigerians resident in those countries. A statement issued in Abuja by the Service Public Relations Officer (SPRO), Mr Akinsola Akinlabi, quoted the NIS Comptroller General, Kemi Nandap, …
The Lagos State Government has unveiled the deployment of additional Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) on four strategic routes to enhance effective traffic and road management, ensure safety, and improve commuting across the state. The state government also announced plans to enforce traffic rules against red light and speed-limit infractions across the metropolis from now on. …
THE Federal Government, yesterday, warned it would take over any section of Lagos-Ibadan expressway not completed by contractors before April, as it pushes to finalize the long-delayed project. The Minister of Works, Senator Dave Umahi, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting presided over by …
LAGOS — In Nigeria, an unacknowledged crisis is escalating, as young persons, especially girls, are being lured into a dangerous underground organ trade. Snared by promises of money or medical treatment, these teenagers unknowingly have their ovaries harvested and sold. Often from poor backgrounds, they are targeted by criminals posing as doctors or trusted figures who …
UGHELLI— Indigenes of Egbo-Kokori community in Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State, yesterday, barricaded the entrance to the Ughelli Police Area Command in the council, protesting the incessant attacks, raping and destruction of their farm lands. The peaceful protesters armed with leaves mainly aged women, men and youths who sang, “we no want Fulani …
Traders under the aegis of Agbajowo Dealers and Artisans Market Association of Owode Onirin of Lagos State, have called on Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to save them from land grabbers, threatening to chase them away and take over the entire location they were currently situated, doing their legal and legitimate business and allocated to them by …
Governors Peter Mbah of Enugu State and Hope Uzodimma of Imo State have extended their condolences to Saturday Vanguard Editor, Mr. Onochie Anibeze, and his family over the passing of his mother, Lady Cordelia Ogbonne Anibeze. The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) also expressed its sympathy to the Anibeze family, praising the late matriarch’s remarkable …
Sokoto—Governor Ahmed Aliyu of Sokoto State has challenged new heads of security agencies deployed to the state recently to do everything possible to end banditry in the state. The governor spoke when he received the newly deployed heads of security agencies during a courtesy call at Government House, saying “We are recording tremendous successes in …
At least 46 soldiers of the Nigerien defense and security forces, SDF, were reported killed in an attack by militants of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, EIGS, weekend. According to Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency publication focused on the Lake Chad region, the attack targeted an SDF position in Iknewane, Tilia department, near the …