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A very notorious member of the Boko Haram terrorist sect and mastermind of the bombing of the UN building in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, has been arrested. The Department of State Security (DSS) said it arrested Khalid AL-Barnawi, who goes by the alias Kafuri, Naziru, Alhaji Yahaya, Mallam Dauda, Alhaji Tanimu. Tony Opuiyo‎, spokesman of the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari appears set to return the 2016 Budget to the National Assembly to rework because what the lawmakers sent to him on Thursday for assent, according to Presidency sources, fell below his expectations.   By implication, Buhari will not sign the Appropriation Bill into law, as earlier planned, before jetting out of the […]

No fewer than 10 Fulani herdsmen again invaded the farm of the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Chief Olu Falae, killing one of his Oodua Peoples Congress, (OPC) security guards. It would be recalled that five fulani herdsmen are currently standing trial at the state High Court over the kidnap o […]

The Nigeria Navy has deployed 38 of its top officers including 34 Rear Admirals and four Commodores to head various formations and commands saying this was in line with the efforts of the Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral Ibok-Ette Ibas, to reposition the security outfit. It is believed that this move is further […]

A total of 27 persons have been arrested in Kogi State for alleged kidnapping and armed robbery, the State Police Commissioner, Mr Yakubu Usman, said on Friday while parading some of the suspects in Lokoja, the State capital. One of the suspect, the gang leader, was said to have led the team which kidnapped a […]

Justice Okon Abang of a Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed an application asking him to disqualify himself from further presiding over the trial of the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, for money laundering charges. The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta, had also […]

                                    Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday arrested the duo of Abbas Attahiru and Mohammed Sufiyanu for offences bordering on impersonation and obtaining by false pretence.   Attahiru and Sufiyanu’s arrest followed a complaint by a would be victim, that the suspects claiming to be staff of EFCC, informed him […]

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has raised the alarm over President Mohammadu Buhari’s scheduled trip to China to borrow $2 billion as part of the N1.84 trillion programmed to be borrowed to finance the 2016 Budget, describing the move as an attempt to mortgage the future of Nigeria and its people. The governor, who […]

A Federal High Court sitting in Jos, Plateau State, on Friday sacked the executive board of the Nigeria Football Federation led by its president, Amaju Pinnick, after nullifying the 30th September 2014 election, which brought them into the office.   Presiding judge, Justice Musa Kurya relisted the earlier withdrawn case filed by the plaintiffs, Senator […]

Former Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ekiti State, Dr Temitope Aluko, has called on the Inspector-General of Police Solomon Arase to grant him police protection, saying his life is under threat.   Aluko, who addressed a press conference, yesterday in Lagos, accused Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State of plans to undermine […]

Senator Clifford Ordia, representing PDP, Edo Central said on Thursday,‎ described the ongoing trial of Senate President, Bukola Saraki as political persecution. The Senator who spoke with news men on Thursday added that if  Senate President Bukola Saraki was convicted and removed by the Code of Conduct Tribunal ( CCT), the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP would […]

The Minister of Power,Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola reviewed at the third triennial delegates’ conference of the Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies in Abuja on Thursday, that the frequent industrial action by workers in the electricity supply industry has resulted in the loss of about N7.734bn between 2014 and 2016. The minister […]