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The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has approved the redeployment and appointment of five Major Generals and four Brigadier Generals to new formations nationwide. The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sagir Musa, in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, said the posting was a routine exercise to reinvigorate the system for greater […]

The Court of Appeal sitting in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday, upheld the election of Sen. Olubunmi Adetumbi of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who won the Ekiti North Senatorial District seat. The News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) reports that the three-man appellate court dismissed the appeal filed by Sen. Duro Faseyi of the Peoples Democratic […]

Police recruitment trainees resume despite court order Despite an Abuja High Court ruling, ordering the Nigerian Police and the Police Service Commission (PSC) to stay action on the recruitment exercise pending the determination of the suit filed by PSC challenging the conduct of the training exercise which it said amounted to usurpation of its constitutional […]

The immediate past secretary of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Amaechi Akawu, has been arrested by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), over allegations of misappropriation of $130, 000 belonging to the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF). ICPC Spokesperson, Rasheedat Okoduwa in a statement yesterday in Abuja disclosed that […]

Ecobank Plc has asked the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Jabi, Abuja, to authorise it to sell an Abuja hotel belonging to Obat Oil and Petroleum Ltd to offset a N5billion debt it’s being owed by the firm. The bank noted in its motion on notice, that it and Obat Oil, owned […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has cautioned officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force against harassing young people in their bid to arrest `yahoo criminals.’ Buhari handed down this warning in his keynote address at the opening ceremony of the Conference and Retreat for Senior Police Officers on Monday in Lagos. The theme of the retreat […]

…plot to arrest, whisk Obaseki’s SA to Abuja foiled   …list of 50 alleged ‘persons of interest’ uncovered   As former Governor of Edo State and National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole loses political grip on the state, he has resorted to deploying Police officers from Abuja to harass Governor […]

President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja on Monday for Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to attend the third edition of the Future Investment Initiative (FII), Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s spokesman said in a statement in Abuja on Sunday; saying the event was organised by Saudi’s Public Investment Fund (PIF). Shehu stated that, after the investors’ conference, […]

Although Governor Godwin Obaseki has come out to strongly deny allegations by the national chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, that he was planning to decamp to the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), indices presage such a move after the PDP adopted a no-zoning policy in picking the party’s governorship candidate […]

The enactment of Anti-open grazing law in Benue State might have paid off as Miyetti Allah, the advocacy group promoting the interests of Fulani pastoralists in the country, at the weekend, apologised to Governor Samuel Ortom over the various herdsmen attacks and killings in the state. Besides apologising for the killings, the group also promised […]

Ahead of the 2021 gubernatorial election in Anambra State, stakeholders in the state are divided along growing calls for the merit-based selection process and need to sustain the zoning principle enunciated by the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in 2013. It would be recalled that at the twilight of his second and final term in […]

The ambition of the Bayelsa State candidate in the November 16 governorship election, Senator Diri Duoye, to succeed incumbent Governor Seriake Dickson, received a major boost at the weekend when former President, Goodluck Jonathan, emerged from a closed-door meeting with governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) states, and endorsed Duoye. At the meeting which […]