Angry youths protesting the upsurge of bandits attacks in Benue State have burnt down the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) office in Sankara, headquarters of Ukum Local Government Area, Benue State. Sam Olumekun, National Commissioner & Chairman, Information and Voter Read more…
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The Nigeria Customs Service said its operatives intercepted nine containers carrying offensive items including arms, ammunition, Illicit drugs and second-hand clothes worth N13.9 billion. The Comptroller-General, NCS, Adewale Adeniyi disclosed this on Monday while addressing journalists in Onne Port, Rivers Read more…
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has declared as illegal, the declaration of the wife of former Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, Margaret as a wanted person by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Mrs. Emefiele had dragged Read more…
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has blamed the latest terror attacks in Borno which claimed many lives on government’s failure to hold firmly to the frontline. He stated this in a post on his X handle, @atiku, on Sunday, saying that Read more…
The Action People’s Party (APP) has said that the alleged silence of the National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu; the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun; the Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Olatunji Disu, and the Department of State Service Read more…
Emir of Gwoza local government area of Borno State, Alhaji Mohammed Shehu Timta, yesterday, confirmed that multiple suicide attacks were carried out at various locations, including a wedding reception and a burial ceremony in Gwoza town. The coordinated incidents, which Read more…
A member of the House of Representatives belonging to the group of opposition lawmakers known as the G60, Hon. Aliyu Mustapha, has urged the Inspector General of Police and Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Commissioner, Ben Igwe, to investigate alleged Read more…
The immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, has written a letter to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, for the transfer of the alleged money laundering charge against him to Kogi.In a letter Read more…
The discovery of illegal bunkering camp in Bayelsa links prominent security firm to widespread oil theft operations June 27, 2024. During the early hours of Sunday, June 23rd, 2023, surveillance security operatives conducted patrols in the Okoroba axis of the Read more…
When Mujahid Abadi stepped outside to see if Israeli forces had entered his uncle’s neighborhood, he was shot in the arm and the foot. That was only the start of his ordeal. Hours later, beaten and bloodied, he found himself Read more…
The immediate-past governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has urged the Federal High Court in Kaduna to quash the report of the state House of Assembly indicting him of N432bn theft. In a suit filed by his lawyer, A.U. Read more…
The Federal High Court in Lagos, on Tuesday, ordered the final forfeiture of the sum of $1,426,175.14 linked to the immediate-past Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele. Justice Ayokunle Faji ordered the final forfeiture of the funds Read more…