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Benue receives UNESCO Certificate of Inscription of Kwagh-Hir theater On By Peter Duru, Makurdi Benue state government has received the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, Certificate of Inscription of Kwagh-Hir theater. Making the presentation Thursday in Makurdi, Executive Secretary of National Institute for Cultural Orientation, NICO, Mr. Muhammad Yahuza explained that the nomination of Kwagh-Hir was adopted during the 14th Session of the Inter-Governmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage held in Bogota, Colombia 2019. Y...

By Anayo Okoli, Peter Duru, Davies Iheamnachor & Dirisu Yakubu THE United Kingdom, UK, has urged Nigeria to ensure quick passage and enactment of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill currently pending before the National Assembly. UK’s Minister for Africa, James Duddridge, who gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, in Abuja, said that passing the amendment bill would build more confidence in the country’s electoral process. Duddridge’s counsel attracted plaudits from the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; Ohanaeze Ndigbo; Middle Belt Forum, MBF; a...

Views: Visits 11 By Peter Duru, Makurdi The Middle Belt Forum, MBF, has described as “wise counsel” the advice by the UK government urging the Nigerian Government to pass into law an electoral act amendment bill to protect its democracy. National President of MBF, Dr Bitrus Pogu is reaction told Vanguard in a Makurdi that the advice had been one of the important agitations by well-meaning Nigerians. “That is what we have been fighting for. We have been fighting for a change. You know that the constitution is an entirety. It also has this section on electoral la...

2 more Greenfield varsity students killed; bandits insist on N800m ransom On …Police exchange fire with bandits, arrest 5 in Zaria …As bandits abduct 2 women, wound pupils, abandon children due to fire power of security agents …Tension in Nasarawa over attacks, 50,000 desert ancestral homes …Take refuge in three locations …Niger gov cries out, says more than 50 villages deserted; over 3000 IDPs in Minna …Buhari will deal with terrorists, criminal gangs, APC assures Nigerians By Wole Mosadomi, Peter Duru, Omeiza Ajayi, David Odama & Ibrahim HassanWuyo Two more students of Greenfie...

By Peter Duru, Makurdi No fewer than seven Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, were feared dead after suspected armed herdsmen militia attacked the Abagena IDPs camp located in the outskirts of Makurdi, the Benue state capital. Vanguard gathered that the unprovoked attack which took place today (Tuesday) at about 2 am left several of the traumatized IDPs with serious injuries.