Four people – including two local police officers – have been killed in a shooting in the eastern Canadian city of Fredericton. While the circumstances of the shooting remain unclear, police said on Friday morning that they had taken one…
R-APC members, Kwankwaso supporters in Edo defect from APC (Vanguard)
Some members of Reformed All Progressives Congress, R-APC and supporters of Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso in Edo State have resigned their membership from All Progressives Congress, APC. The Kwankwansiyya movement which is a unit in the R-APC was led by its…
China mosque demolition sparks standoff in Ningxia (BBC)
Hundreds of Muslims in north-western China are engaged in a standoff with authorities to prevent their mosque from being demolished. Officials said the newly built Weizhou Grand Mosque in the Ningxia region had not been given proper building permits. But…
Melania Trump’s parents granted American citizenship via mechanism bitterly opposed by her husband (Independent)
The parents of Melania Trump have been sworn in as US citizens after completing a path to naturalisation her husband has repeatedly attacked and promised to severely curtail. Viktor and Amalija Knavs took their oaths to become Americans after the first lady…
NYSC DG says nation’s challenges place much burden on corps members (Punch)
The Director General, National Youth Service Corps, Brig.-Gen. Suleiman Kazaure, says the current socio-political situation in the country has placed much burden on corps members. The director general, who said this in Enugu on Friday during a visit to the…
UNILAG’s graduate wins OVH Energy Prodigy Series Competition (Vanguard)
OVH Energy Limited, a Nigerian oil and gas downstream company, has announced Solomon Tolulope Oyakhire, 23 year old first class graduate of Chemical Engineering from the University of Lagos as the winner of its 2nd edition of its Prodigy Series…
NFF panel releases amended electoral timetable (Guardian)
Candidates for the 2018 Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) elections now have a new grace period to buy and submit their forms for the polls billed for September 20. The NFF Electoral Committee yesterday rolled out a new timetable for the…
EFCC raids house, arrests former DSS boss Ekpeyong (Guardian)
A former director-general of the Department of State Services (DSS), Ita Ekpeyong has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The action came barely 24 hours after Acting President Yemi Osinbajo sacked the agency’s former boss, Lawal…
Olubadan, High Chiefs’ rift to be resolved soon –Ibadan Magajis – (Independent)
Heads of family compounds (Mogajis) in Ibadan have expressed optimism that the lingering face-off between Oba Saliu Adetunji, the Olubadan of Ibadanland and some of his High Chiefs would soon be resolved. Oba Adetunji and the High Chiefs have been…
Daura colluded with Politicians to invade NASS — Police Report (Independent)
A report seen by Daily Independent on Thursday shows that Lawal Musa Daura, the sacked Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS) “acted a script of some highly placed politicians to achieve selfish political goals hence his unilateral and unlawful decision…