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The Nigerian Army on Thursday inaugurated a special court martial at the Army Headquarters Garrison, Mogadishu cantonment to commence the trial of two major generals, Patrick Falola and Major General Ibrahim Sani. The accused persons were both present in court for the inauguration of the panel, which would sit in judgment on charges leveled against them. The […]

President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja urged the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to facilitate the faster recovery of Nigeria’s stolen wealth stashed abroad. Receiving the Executive Secretary of UNODC, Mr Yury Fedotov, President Buhari stated in a press release that the process of recovering the stolen assets had “become tedious’’ to […]

Mr. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, the Minister of Transportation, Thursday, explained his role and why he leaked a letter by former governor the Central Bank of Nigeria, Lamido Sanusi, to former President Goodluck Jonathan, detailing how $49 billion of oil revenue had been diverted. Amaechi, who made the disclosure in a letter issued by his office […]

Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday said that he respected every past and present presidents irrespective of the population of the countries or where they governed when he was at the helm of Nigeria’s affairs. Obasanjo who also condemned what he described as “the rivalry for supremacy among Yoruba monarchs’’, said this when the new Olubadan […]Read More

Resident doctors at the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, have embarked on a three-day warning strike to protest irregularities in the payment of their salaries. The President, Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria, Dr. Okoye Chukwunonso, said on Thursday that they (doctors) had been receiving only 48 per cent of their salaries for the past four […]

A coalition of some civil society groups, the minority interest rights advocates in Nigeria (MIRAN) have called on the federal and states governments of Benue and Nassarawa to immediately constitute an all-inclusive panel of inquires in their respective states on the Agatu massacre and bring the sponsors and perpetrators of the heinous crimes against humanity to justice. The group […]Read More

The Senate has recommended that the funding of security agencies be taken as a priority, bearing in mind that the practice of envelop budgetary for security agencies had proved ineffective, adding that efforts should be put in place to create employment opportunities for the nation’s teaming unemployed youths. It also agreed that security agencies should […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that strategic programmes and projects contained in the 2016 budget be given priority. Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed disclosed this to reporters after a cabinet meeting presided over by Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo.  She said President Muhammadu Buhari should receive the corrected version of the budget […]

The storm rocking the South-West chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, calmed a little yesterday after the party’s two bickering governors in the zone found common ground on the contentious zoning of national offices allocated to the region. Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State sparked the troubleshooting yesterday, after he made a surprise appearance at […]

At the early hours of today, Wednesday 4th May 2016, troops of 156 Task Force Battalion, 29 Task Force Brigade, assisted by Civilian JTF embarked on a long range patrol aimed at clearing remnants of Boko Haram terrorists at Ngula and Kukuruk villages in Alagarno general area. The troops encountered and engaged surprised elements of Boko […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a former Governor of Imo State, Achike Udenwa, for allegedly receiving N350m from the Director of Finance, Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, Senator Nenadi Usman.  The money was said to have emanated from the account of the Central Bank of Nigeria. About N4bn was deposited into the account […]

 The Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB,  has verified and confirmed the assets that were declared by President Muhammadu Buhari and his Vice, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. The Bureau, in a statement it issued in Abuja Wednesday, debunked a report alleging that it was yet to conclude the verification of assets that were declared by the duo. According […]Read More