The Commandant of the Federal Capital Territory chapter of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Dr Peter Maigari, has announced the deployment of 4,000 personnel, across the FCT, to ensure hitch-free celebrations during the festivities. In a statement made available to the press on Thursday, and signed by the...

From Chijioke Agwu,Abakaliki Police in Ebonyi State on Thursday announced the arrest of a suspected Eastern Security Network (ESN) commander, Sunday Mbah. Police Public Relations Officer for the command, Chris Anyanwu, in a statement on Thursday said the suspect was arrested during a raid at a thick forest in Isu area...

Ali Bello, a nephew to Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello and one Dauda Sulaiman were on Thursday arraigned on a 10-count charge of misappropriation and money laundering involving N10 billion by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC at a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. In the charges...

From Judex Okoro, Calabar Appeal Court sitting in Calabar has dismissed Senator John Owan Enoh’s case, declaring Sen. Bassey Otu the authentic C’River APC governroship candidate.   This somewhat brings to an end  the legal tussle between Sen. John Owan Eno and Sen. Bassey Otu over who is the candidate of APC. Otu polled...

The damaged Toyota Camry belonging to the spokesman of the Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress, Mr Adebayo Onanuga in an accident which resulted from the recklessness of a driver in Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s convoy on Sunday in Abuja has been fully repaired with the bill footed...

By Christopher Oji The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a man caught bathing with blood in a river at Kotopo community of Odeda Local Government . Commissioner of Police, Mr.  Lanre Bankole, has directed that the  blood should be taken for laboratory analysis, to ascertain whether it was  human blood...

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 49-year-old man, Ganiyu Shina, for allegedly bathing with blood at a community river in the Kotopo area of Odeda local government. The suspect was reportedly arrested on Thursday, at No 4, Oguji street, Obantoko Abeokuta. The Police Public Relations...

By Lukman Olabiyi Justice James Kolawole Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja, remanded Aliyu Bello, a nephew to Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello and one Dauda Sulaiman in prison pending the fulfilment of their bail conditions They were remanded upon arraignment alongside one Abdulsalami Hudu, Cahier of Kogi State...

From Priscilla Ediare, Ado-Ekiti Ekiti State Governor, Mr Biodun Oyebanji has expressed condolences on the death of Nigeria’s Ambassador to Spain, Demola Seriki, who passed on Thursday, describing it as unfortunate and painful. The Governor, in a statement by the Special Adviser(Media), Yinka Oyebode,  on Thursday in Ado-Ekiti, described the news of Seriki’s...

The Ebonyi State Police Command has disclosed that it uncovered the biggest bomb factory in the South-East operated by the Indigenous People of Biafra and its militia arm, Eastern Security Network. The command said its operatives uncovered the factory after a tip-off on the activities of the miscreants in...

The Commander 32 Artillery Bridage, Akure, Brigadier-General Muktar Adamu, has urged journalists in the country to be fair, objective, and factual in the coverage of military activities. Adamu said the military needed the support of all Nigerians to work effectively and tackle crimes and criminalities in the country. The...

The Peoples Democratic Party, Nasarawa State has accused the All Progressives Congress of attempts to manipulate the opinions of the public as regards the ongoing tribunal in the states. The party also noted  that no “amount of fake news” would deter PDP from retrieving its “stolen mandate.” According to a...

By Yakubu Uba The Multinational Joint Tasks Force (MNJTF) combating insurgency in the Lake Chad region said six key commanders of Boko Haram and 26 fighters have surrendered to its troops in different operations in the past few days. MNJTF said this in statement on Saturday by its...

The South East All Progressives Congress Young Progressives Forum, Anambra State Chapter, has asked the Anambra State governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, to account for the Federal Government’s subsidy palliatives assigned to the state. In a statement co-signed by the National Convener of the group, Paschal Candle and others, on Saturday, the...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has said that music star, Azeez Fashola, popularly known as Naira Marley, who was recently engaged in its drug abuse advocacy campaign, is not an ambassador of the anti-graft agency. The NDLEA said its engagement with Naira Marley was to encourage him to...