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No school is safe until govt negotiates with bandits, says Gumi
Popular Islamic cleric, Sheik Abubakar Gumi, has said there are about 100,000 armed bandits in the North-West alone. Gumi said the bandits kidnapping…
Know Your Rights: It’s illegal for police to arrest you in place of another person
The police are legally backed to maintain law and order, case in point, arrest persons that flout the law, or in other cases, persons that obstruct an officer during the discharge of duty. The law also…
PDP faults President’s rejection of restructuring
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s rejection of calls for structuring as unacceptable and an attack on the people’s rights.…
How Fulanis repelled bandits in Iwo land, by Oluwo
The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi has said disclosed that the Fulanis in his domain repelled an invasion of bandit into his community. Oluwo noted that the incident happened on Saturday when some…
Court clears man of cocaine possession charge
A Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday discharged and acquitted a businessman, Frankline Chukwudumeme, of an unlawful possession of cocaine charge. Chukwudumeme,…
JAMB blames NIN requirement as revenue drops to N5.8bn
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has attributed the drop in the revenue it generated from the sale of forms for the 2021 Unified Tertiary and…
Constitution review a waste of time —Bode George
FORMER Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George, has advised the Federal Government to expedite action on…
APC fixes convention for October, crisis in states persists
There were strong indications on Sunday that the All Progressives Congress would hold its national convention in October. A member of the national…
We’re still investigating Tinubu – EFCC Chairman, Bawa
Abdulrasheed Bawa, the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), says a former governor of Lagos State and national leader of the…
Police intensify search for Super TV CEO’s killers, block account
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has said efforts are on to arrest the suspected killers of the Chief Executive Officer,…
NEITI: FG’s Earning from Mining Rose to N79.96bn in 2019
Nigeria earned N79.96 billion from the solid minerals sector in 2019, representing a 15 per cent increase when compared to the N69.47 billion…
Senate calls Lekki Free Zone, Eko Atlantic national assets
The Senate Committee on Trade, Industry and Investment, has described Dangote, Lekki, Alaro City, and the Lagos free zone, which constituted the Lekki mega…
NADECO Writes Buhari on Insecurity, Insists on Abrogation of 1999 Constitution
The National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) has written to President Muhammadu Buhari over the rising security challenges in the country and…
CAC Boss Denies N6.54bn Fraud Allegation
The Registrar General/Chief Executive, Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), Alhaji Garba Abubakar, has expressed the commission’s commitment to the anti-corruption war of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, adding…
IPOB: Northern Groups Fault South-east Leaders, Insists on Referendum
The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has described as insufficient, deceptive and unacceptable the disowning of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) by South-East leaders chaired by Governor Dave Umahi of…
Troops rescue three more students abducted from Kebbi school
The Nigerian army says three more students abducted from the Federal Government College, Birnin-Yauri, in Kebbi state, have been rescued. A statement by Onyema…
Heavy security at Ogiame Ikenwoli’s funeral rites
The final traditional funeral rites of passage for Ogiame Ikenwoli, the 20th Olu of Warri, continued at Ode-Itsekiri, the ancestral home of the Itsekiri people, in Warri South…
Anger over Buhari’s jibe at restructuring advocates
Apex ethnic groups and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday expressed shock and anger over President Muhammadu Buhari’s jibe at advocates of restructuring of the polity. The President at the…
Borrowing to fix roads, rail good for economy, says Fashola
Borrowing to fix infrastructure is good for the economy, Minister Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola (SAN), has said. Speaking in Abuja at NANForum,…
‘$43.4m Ikoyi cash with CBN’
As the probe of the whereabouts of $43, 449, 947, 000 seized from Osborne Towers in Ikoyi deepens, there were indications on Sunday that the cash was deposited with the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN). It was…
Southeast insecurity: Fed Govt to explore dialogue, says Ngige
The Federal Government has resolved to adopt dialogue to resolve the escalating insecurity in the Southeast. Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, said the…
Five dead, four injured as police officer goes on shooting spree in Enugu
A police inspector has been arrested in Enugu, after a shooting spree on Sunday that resulted in the death of five persons. Four others, who also sustained…
15 Tegina abdutees escape
Fifteen people abducted alongside Tanko Salihu Islamiyya students in Tegina, Niger State have escaped from their abductors. The abductees claimed they escaped while the guards watching them were deeply asleep.…
Nigerians will choose between Tinubu and others in 2023 – Senator Durojaiye
A former presidential aspirant and lawmaker in the Fourth Republic, Senator Olabiyi Durojaiye, in this interview with TOBI AWORINDE, discusses…