Age and time might have slowed down the pace of the maverick Senator Arthur Nzeribe, but the vehemence of his conviction remains ablaze as usual. From the way he fumes, not minding the situation of things, about the prevailing developments in Nigeria, he remains himself, unfazed, undiluted in sharp criticisms and unrelenting in what he […]
A Federal High Court sitting has fixed November 18, 2011 to begin definite trial of the six persons alleged to be members of an Islamist sect, Boko Haram, responsible for the bombing of the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Suleja, Niger State on March 3, 2011. The suspects, Shuaibu Abubakar, Salisu […]
ABUJA – The House of Representatives Committee on Pension, yesterday, heard that over 71,135 ghost pensioners were on the pay roll of Federal Government which cost the government over N28 billion annually. The Head of Service of the Federation, Alhaji Ibrahim Sali, told the committee, yesterday, that the report of the pension reform task force […]
A member of the Borno state house of assembly, Hon Modu Bintube has been shot dead by a gun man in the presence of his aides and supporters. Reports say the lawmaker was shot when he was about to enter his vehicle at about 7:30 pm on Sunday after greeting his supporters. The deceased is […]
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is conniving with the major crude oil lifters to defraud the nation to the tune of $50 billion, the House of Representatives committee on Finance has said. The Chairman House Committee on Finance, Abdulmumuni Jibrin stated this at the opening of the two-day investigative public hearing on the alleged […]
The Jama’atu Ahlus Sunnati Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram said that they were responsible for the killing of Zakariyya Isa, a reporter with the Nigerian Television Authority’s (NTA) Maiduguri Network Centre. The group has also claimed responsibility for Saturday night’s multiple attacks on a police station and banks in Saminaka, Kaduna State […]
The Nigerian Army said it has employed war dogs to detect narcotics and explosives as well as locate dead and decomposing human tissues. Speaking while declaring open the Nigerian Army Corps of Military Police training week in Abuja, the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Onyeabor Azubuike Ihejirika, also disclosed that the dogs would be trained […]
SOME states of the federation, opposed to the newly launched Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF), have sued the Federal Government. Their action followed the failure of the states and the central government to resolve the legality and propriety of the SWF through dialogue. The suit came three years after the Federal Government opted for an out-of […]
By Innocent Anaba LAGOS—Trial resumed, Monday, behind closed doors in the case against an Iranian, Azim Aghajani, and a Nigerian, Alli Abass Jega, accused of importing arms illegally into Nigeria from Republic of Iran. Trial judge, Justice Okechukwu Okeke, who ordered journalists, lawyers and litigants out of the court room as the case was called, […]
ABUJA— Commander of a military task-force in Borno State, Colonel Benjamin Ahanotu, who arrested the former leader of the Boko Haram sect, Mohammed Yusuf, in 2009 and handed him over to the police, Monday, told a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja that he was murdered by the police. Col. Ahanotu testified before the trial […]
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