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By Owei Lamfa THE leading international leaders of hypocrisy and deception, with headquarters in Western Europe, are as they historically do, teaching lessons they themselves will neither take nor accept. Iran has since February 28, 2026, been under waves of relentless attacks by the United States, US, and Israel with children and adults, citizens and leaders, being dispatched with detached limbs and body parts.  Rather than at least call for a halt to these barbaric attacks that ultimately endanger humanity, these self-acclaimed international leaders of human rights and international law, are engaged in sterile debates. They ask whether Iran has a right to self-defence, including the right to attack the rat holes in neigbouring countries called military bases from which some of the attacks are being staged.  For the avoidance of doubt, Iran, in accordance with Section 51 of the United Nations Charter, has a right to self-defence. It states unequivocally: “Nothing in the pres...

*Electoral Act amendment The House of Representatives has amended the Electoral Act 2026 to criminalise dual membership of political parties, prescribing a fine of N10 million or a maximum of two years imprisonment for offenders. The amendment, contained in a bill seeking to strengthen provisions on political party membership, was passed during plenary, after lawmakers considered it at the committee of the whole. The legislation introduces three new subsections to Section 77 of the Electoral Act 2026, which deals with political party membership, making it unlawful for any individual to belong to more than one political party at the same time. Under the new provision, any person found to be registered in more than one political party simultaneously will have such membership declared void. “A person shall not be registered as a member of more than one political party at the same time,” the provision stated. It further provided that where it was established that where a person held dual m...

*Crude oil prices leap further to $84 per barrel *Dangote refinery, oil marketers adjust prices *Expect more increases, hard times — CPPE *FG should plan to ease sufferings of the masses — OGSPAN *More industries should embrace gas — Coleman NIGERIAN homes, businesses and others are in for harder times following sharp increases in the retail prices of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG, also known as cooking gas; Automotive Gas Oil, AGO, known as diesel, and petrol, as a consequence of the Middle East crisis. Gas price increased to N1,200 per kilogram from N1,000 per kg and diesel, N1,300 per litre from N1,200 per litre, respectively. Also, the price of fuel or Premium Motor Spirit, PMS rose to N939 per litre from N837 per litre, yesterday, and there are fears of it rising above N1,000, if the Middle East crisis lingers. Meanwhile, crude oil price rose to $84 from $75 per barrel last week in the global oil market, after the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC, said that the Straits of Ho...

THE Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Hajiya Farida Umar has said that the judgment of the Federal High court in Ibadan validating the Ibadan PDP convention, which led to the emergence of Taninu Turaki led executive in 2025, shows that the court can be seen as being unbiased aligning with the fact and law that led to organisation of the convention. She noted that what was most important is the Appeal Court judgment, where the party had gone to, urging the justices of the appellate court to do the right thing just as the lower court did. “The most important thing that we are waiting for now at the PDP is  the Appeal Court judgment. We called on the Justices to do the right thing as the Ibadan court has done its own,” she said. She spoke to Vanguard in Lafia,  where she distributed food items, beverages and cash to PDP stakeholders in the 13 wards of Lafia Local Government Area of the state, yesterday, to aid them in breaking the Ramadan ...

President Bola Tinubu and wife of the acting Inspector-General of Police, Olufunmilola Olatunji Disu decorating the newly-appointed, Acting Inspector General Police, Olatunji Disu at the Presidential Villa Abuja. •Says ‘you have my support’ •My appointment took me off-guard—Disu •Vows zero tolerance for impunity PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu, has charged the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Disu, to restore peace and strengthen security nationwide. Tinubu issued the directive at the decoration of Disu as the Acting Inspector-General of Police, following the retirement of Kayode Egbetokun, pending the Nigeria Police Council’s ratification of the appointment and the Senate’s confirmation.  The council will meet next week. But after his decoration as the 23rd indigenous Inspector-General of Police IGP which was barely 48 days to his retirement, the acting IGP, Olatunji Disu, said his appointment took him by surprise but noted that it filled him with gratitude to the President In h...

•Gunmen storm ADC secretariat, Odigie-Oyegun’s residence •We got intelligence of attack — Odigie-Oyegun •APC, Edo govt deny complicity; ADC, Atiku, Akpata, Owie react  TENSION gripped Benin City, Edo State, yesterday, as 2023 Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi; former Governor of Edo State,  John Odigie-Oyegun and other leaders of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, escaped attacks from gunmen.   Few minutes after leaders of the ADC, including Peter Obi received former president of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, and the LP Edo 2024 governorship candidate, Olumide Akpata into the party, gunmen attacked the facility at Ogbelaka Street, Off Sokponba Road, Benin City, and the residence of the party’s National Leader,  Odigie-Oyegun. Obi, narrating his ordeal, declared: “It is time to speak up. It is time those in government act. They are not going to be there forever. What they allowed to happen in the country today will take its rev...