The National Counter Terrorism Centre, under the Office of the National Security Advisor, reports that over 5,000 former Boko Haram fighters have successfully been reunited with their families. According to the Centre, none of these ex-combatants have returned to the battlefield following a six-month deradicalisation programme. Ambassador Mairo Musa Abbas, who leads the Preventing and … Read more
The Federal Government has secured a $1.1 billion credit facility from African Development Bank (AfDB) to provide electricity for five million people in Nigeria by 2026. President Bola Tinubu disclosed this at the just concluded two-day Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The president, according to a statement issued on Thursday … Read more
Engr. Michael Ayuba Auta, the Labour Party (LP) senatorial candidate for Southern Kaduna in the 2023 general elections, has officially defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Auta, who played a key role in the LP’s performance during the 2023 elections, pledged to mobilise one million votes for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Governor … Read more
Gunmen on Tuesday killed five persons at Ajegunle-Powerline community in Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State. A resident, Mr. Akin Olowolafe, told journalists on Thursday the gunmen entered the farmlands at about 3:00 p.m., on Tuesday and started shooting sporadically. He added that the victims were farmers working on their farms at the … Read more
The House of Representatives Committee on Public Account has set up a five-man sub-committee to probe the payment of bogus severance packages for political appointees in government agencies. The Chairman of the Committee, Bamidele Salam, announced the sub-committee on Thursday in Abuja at a public hearing on the 2020 Audit Queries from the Office of … Read more
The Sultan of Sokoto, Abubakar Sa’ad III has declared Friday, January 31, as the first day of Sha’aban. The announcement was made on Thursday, January 30, by the Sultanate Council Advisory Committee on Religious Affairs and the National Moon Sighting Committee. According to the committees, there were no confirmation on the sighting of the crescent … Read more
Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly have insisted that they followed due process and procedure in the removal of Mudashiru Obasa as the Speaker of the House. According to them, the removal of Obasa was done in line with all constitutional provisions. The lawmakers made the declaration in a statement on Thursday signed … Read more
A Department of State Services (DSS) official, Mr Stephen Okolo, testified on Monday about the role technology played in the arrest of three security personnel charged with kidnapping and banditry in Oyo State. Okolo, who appeared as the first prosecution witness in the trial of three officials of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps … Read more
A district head in the Zazzau emirate council of Kaduna State collapsed at an event on Thursday and subsequently passed away at the Gambo Sawaba General Hospital in Kofar Gayan, Zaria. The Sarkin Yakin Zazzau, Alhaji Rilwan Yahaya Pate, fainted while attending the occasion alongside the Emir of Zazzau, Mallam Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli. Abdullahi Aliyu … Read more
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has rebuked former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar over his unfounded allegations that the party is paying opposition leaders 50 million Naira to destabilize political parties in Nigeria. The claims were dismissed as baseless, laughable, urging the former presidential candidate to focus on the internal rebuilding of his party rather … Read more