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The Senate on Wednesday considered a bill seeking to prohibit the payment and receipt of ransom for the release of any person kidnapped, imprisoned, or wrongfully confined.   Nigerians who pay ransom to kidnappers and kidnappers who receive ransom risk 15 year’s imprisonment, according to the provisions of the Bill.   The Terrorism Prevention (Amendment) […]

The series of attacks being launched on facilities belonging to the Independent National Electoral Commission may undermine the Commission’s capacity to organize elections, the Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, has said.   Should that happen, it could dent the nation’s electoral process, Yakubu warned.   Yakubu declared that “these attacks are no longer freak events but […]

Hunters Group of Nigeria (HGN) on Tuesday asked to be listed in the current war being waged against terror in the country.   Members of the association stormed the National Assembly in Abuja, from across the country and begged to be allowed to complement the efforts of the regular armed forces.   The spokesman of […]

Delta State governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, on Tuesday, dissolved his cabinet, and sacked his political appointees   Those sacked included his 25 Commissioners, the Secretary to the State Government, the Chief of Staff, Government House, Senior Political Adviser, among others.   Announcement of the sack was given to journalists by the immediate past Commissioner for Information, […]

Abidemi Rufai, a Senior Special Assistant to Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, faces up to 30 years in prison following his arrest in New York for employment fraud.   Rufai was arrested by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation for $350,000 employment fraud.   FBI agents arrested Rufai on Friday evening at the John […]

Gunmen in the early hours of Monday kidnapped a female Professor in the Department of Medical Microbiology of the University of Jos, Grace Ayanbimpe, along with her husband. The couple was abducted from their residence after the gunmen gained entrance into their house located behind Haske Quarters, Lamingo in Jos North Local Government Area of […]

With his petulance, foul temperament, imprudent conduct and seemingly high propensity to stoke controversy, Nasir El-Rufai has impoverished the sobriety and dignity of the office of Governor of Kaduna State in ways that underscore the travails Nigeria’s democracy has had to endure and how democracy has been bastardised to have a peculiarly Nigerian definition, making […]

Members of the Biafra Zionists Federation have said they will go ahead with their plans to celebrate Biafra Day on May 30, despite the threats from the Federal Government. This adds to the cacophony emanating from the Southeast regarding the celebration of the 54th anniversary of the declaration of Biafra Republic Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu in […]

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila said on Monday that the current level of insecurity in the country amounts to a state of way.   Such a state of hostility has therefore made it imperative for the government to provide additional funding for the nation’s armed forces, he said.   Nigeria is […]