Eleven young elephants found dead near Zimbabwe’s biggest game park may have succumbed to a bacterial infection, the country’s parks agency said on Tuesday, after it ruled out poaching and cyanide poisoning. The elephant carcasses were discovered last Friday in Pandamasuwe Forest in western Zimbabwe, between Hwange National Park and Victoria Falls. The mysterious deaths […]
Mass defection stares the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the face in Cross River State, as the issue of senatorial candidate for Cross River North Senatorial District heats up. Also, the issue of who controls the party structure in the state remains unresolved and controversial. In the past one month, the party at the national […]
Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU) has commended Federal Government’s efforts to ensure that peace returned to communities in the southern part of the state, while supporting the return of displaced persons to their ancestral homes. The president, Jonathan Asake, and other members of the Central Executive Committee (CEC) met with the Commander, Operation Safe Haven, […]
Utomi blames ‘leadership failure’ for Nigeria’s woes Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has written Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, urging the National Assembly to reject new loan requests tied to projects that would not generate income. He stated in the letter, dated August 19, a copy of which was seen by The Guardian yesterday, that the […]
Lagos State governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, yesterday, met with the management team of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) ahead of next Saturday’s reopening of airspace for international flights, urging a remodelling of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA). Discussions at the meeting focused partly on actionable steps being put in place at the […]
A group, Citizens’ Initiative for Security Awareness (CISA), has advised the Federal Government to tread carefully on the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) issue to avoid providing an opportunity for another insurgent group to spring up in the South East. IPOB, which was designated a terrorist group and proscribed in 2017, has been locked in […]