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The terrorists who attacked the Abuja-Kaduna train on Monday, March 28, 2022, have released the Managing Director of the Bank of Agriculture (BoA) Alwan Ali-Hassan, saying they let him go on compassionate grounds.   The bandits made this disclosure in a viral video on social media, the speaker of the group, speaking in the Hausa […]

  Governor of Anambra State, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, has named Bianca Odumegwu Ojukwu the Secretary of the Truth, Justice and Peace Committee, while a former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Prof Chidi Odinkalu, is to head the group.   The Committee also has its members Onyeka Onwenu and Charly Boy Oputa. The Committee […]

The Nigerian government has said it is still on top of the war against bandits, despite the contrary impression being created in the public.   The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said that there are success stories being achieved by the military in the war against terror that are not known to […]

Nigeria’s former President, Goodluck Jonathan, was on Wednesday evening involved in an auto crash in Abuja which claimed the lives of two of his aides and injured two others   The accident occurred when Jonathan, who is ECOWAS Special Envoy, was on his way home in Abuja from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Nigeria’s […]

The Nigerian government on Wednesday lifted the midnight curfew and restrictions on gatherings that were imposed in 2019 to tackle the COVID-19 virus.   This was announced in a statement issued by the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19, which coordinated the nation’s response to the pandemic.    “The removal of restrictions was decided in view […]

The Nigerian government has approved the establishment of additional 12 new universities in the country, the government said on Wednesday.   This was announced by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, at the end of the Federal Executive Council in Abuja, who spoke to State House Correspondents. The virtual meeting was presided […]

Anambra Governor Chukwuma Soludo has urged members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to lay down their arms and embrace peace.   Soludo said this on Monday as he offered amnesty to members of group in the state, asking them to come out of the forests where they are hiding and from where they […]

  …puts number of dead passengers at 8, with 22 missing   As many as 146 of the 362 passengers who were on the Abuja-Kaduna train that was attacked by bandits remain unreachable six days after the incident, the Nigerian Railway Corporation has said.   The Managing Director of NRC, Mr Fidet Okhiria disclosed this […]

The People’s Democratic Party’s committee on zoning has jettisoned the idea and consequently flung its doors wide open for all interested members to contest the seat. The 37-member committee, which is billed to submit its report to the leadership of the party on Thursday, took the decision at a meeting at the Benue Governor’s lodge […]

A High Court in the northern Nigerian Kano State on Tuesday sentenced Mubarak Bala, an atheist to 24-year imprisonment for blasphemy.   The convict had pleaded guilty to an 18-count charge bordering on blasphemy, incitement, contempt of religion and breach of public peace. Neither his age nor address was given by the court. In his […]

The former Chief Imam of the Apo Legislative Quarters Mosque, Sheikh Muhammad Khalid, has received another appointment after he was sacked for the content of his sermon last Friday.   His new appointment came about 24 hours after he was sacked by the Apo mosque steering committee over a sermon that criticised the government’s failure […]

The Court of Appeal Enugu Division on Friday dismissed a suit seeking the sack of the governor of Ebonyi State, David Nweze Umahi, and his Deputy, Dr. Kelechi Igwe for defection.   Umahi and his deputy last November defected to the All Progressives Congress,  from the People’s Democratic Party, on whose ticket both were elected […]