Nigeria’s military on Saturday claimed further gains in its counter-offensive against Boko Haram, but the group’s shadowy leader Abubakar Shekau dismissed the talk of success as “lies”. Army spokesman Sani Usman said troops destroyed more rebel enclaves and camps in the restive state of Borno, which has been worst hit by the six-year Islamist insurgency. […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, said on Thursday, that the allegations of rigging and hijacking of electoral materials in the Rivers governorship election were false. The Commission stated this when it opened its defence before the State’s Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja. NAN reports the tribunal is sitting on a petition filed […]
BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME PORT HARCOURT – About five persons are feared dead in a gas explosion that occurred at a place they sell gas on Eliozu area of Port Harcourt. Details at press time were hazy. The Rivers state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ahmad Muhammad confirmed the explosion on phone but said he will […]
The Nigerian police have arrested a Dubai-based Indian national, Mohammed Shazul, for procuring a Dubai visa using a Nigerian man’s name without his consent. Sources close to Federal Criminal Intelligence Investigation Department (FCIID) Annex, Alagbon Close, Lagos, made the disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday. The source said that operatives from […]
By: Luka Binniyat KADUNA – Governor Nasir El Rufai of Kaduna State has orderd the immediate closure of two churches, a seminary and a church-owned hospitals and secondary school all in Saminaka, Lere Local Government Area of Kaduna State. He said the closure was to avoid the eruption of violence among factions of the congregations […]
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Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose The League of Imams and Alfas in Ekiti has ordered Muslims in the state not to collect rams and other food items for Sallah celebration, if presented to them in any form by the state government. The League reached the decision at a meeting held on Tuesday at Ansar-u-Deen […]
Some customs men on duty. | credits: Cargocleaning.blogspot.com President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the new Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Col. Hamid Ali (retd.) to rid the service of corrupt officers. The PUNCH learnt on Sunday that as part of measures to carry out Buhari’s directive, the CG of Customs had demanded files […]
By Vincent Ujumadu & Chimaobi Nwaiwu The Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hassan Karma yesterday in Onitsha accused the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB of breeding criminals even as the command paraded 43 MASSOB members in Awka. The police Commissioner also proclaimed ban on the police in the state […]
By Evelyn Usman & Ebere Aham LAGOS—THE Deputy Managing Director of The Sun Newspaper, Mr Steve Nwosu, whose wife was abducted Monday, by gunmen who raided his Ago residence, Lagos, yesterday, appealed to her abductors to release her to his family. This is just as he has stated that he did not have the N100 […]
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