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The Federal Government and governors of the South-West geo-political zone yesterday reached a truce on the operational modalities of Operation Amotekun, the regional security outfit launched recently in Ibadan, Oyo State. The agreement came at the end of … Read more via Newtelegraph –...

The Federal Government and South-West governors have reached an agreement on Operation Amotekun. Laolu Akande, the Special Adviser to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, made this known via his verified Twitter handle this evening.... Read more via Linda Ikeji’s Blog – https://ift.tt/2Ggub1k Get...

Osinbajo and governors from the Southwest are discussing Amotekun at the villa. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is currently locked in a meeting with governors of Nigeria’s Southwest region over Amotekun, the region’s newly launched security outfit, a highly placed source in the..... Read more...

The Western Nigerian Security outfit codenamed Operation Amotekun remains an illegal entity, the FG has maintained. According to The Nation, the Federal Government has insisted the Western Nigerian Security outfit codenamed Operation Amotekun remains.... Read more via Tori News –...

The Federal Government says there is no evidence to back up claims made by Transparency International that Nigeria is currently the most corrupt country in West Africa. Transparency International in its new ranking, placed Nigeria at 146 out of the 180 countries on the 2019 corruption perception...

The EFCC arraigned Dokpesi in 2015 on a seven-count charge bordering on alleged N2.1 billion fraud. The Federal High Court, Abuja has adjourned the ongoing trial of Mr Raymond Dokpesi, Chairman Emeritus of DAAR Communications Plc until March 18.... Read more via Pulse Nigeria News –...

The immediate-past former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, on Thursday, made his first court appearance after his release from four-year-long detention. The ex-NSA was kept in detention for that period, in spite of the bail granted him on numerous occasions by various courts. On...

The police command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja yesterday said mob damaged one of its operational vehicles and lynched a ‘one chance’ robbery suspect in Abuja..... Read more via The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News – https://ift.tt/2NSkU3N Get More Nigeria...

The Presidency has described as mere speculations the reported planned imposition of visa restrictions on some African and Asian countries including Nigeria by America’s government led by President Donald Trump. Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity...

Bishop Matthew Kukah of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, has lamented that there was no place in the world where human lives were slaughtered anyhow without the perpetrators caught and brought to face justice like in Nigeria. He spoke at the 3rd General Assembly and peace … Read more...

ABUJA—National Working Committee, NWC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, said, the emergence of the South-West security outfit, Amotekun and other security apparatus are indications of a vote of no confidence on the ability of President Muhammadu Buhari … Read more via...

Ibrahim Magu, acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), says Diezani Alison-Madueke, former minister of petroleum, is being protected in the UK. The ex-minister had relocated to London shortly before former President Goodluck Jonathan handed over... Read more via...

Human rights activist and former lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, has demanded N100million damages from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over his detention. Sani who is still in the custody of the anti-graft commission said his continuous detention without trial is a gross...

The absence of former Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, at the Federal High Court, Abuja, yesterday, stalled the continuation of the trial. When the court registrar called the case, though Fani-Kayode’s lawyer, Ahmed Raji, SAN, was in court, the former minister, who was the sole...

Fifty years after, Nigerians are still romancing the baleful consequences that led to civil war. This is so because many things that have happened in the past that caused the civil war are still happening today almost exactly the same way..... Read more via The Guardian Nigeria News –...

Some People’s Democratic Party (PDP) members were involved in an accident yesterday January 20, during a protest in Abuja against the sack of Emeka Ihedioha as the Governor of Imo State by the Supreme Court. A video from the scene of the incident showed one of the trucks conveying some of the...

President Muhammadu Buhari has observed that the lack of foreign investment is denying employable young persons the opportunity to work in the country. In an article titled “A new case for a Commonwealth based on trade,” made available to the media in Abuja on Sunday, he said greater … Read...

The President Muhammadu Buhari-led government has been called upon to arrest the Yoruba leaders promoting the establishment of the new security outfit, Amotekun in the South West. Making the call in an interview with the Sun at the weekend is the National President General of Miyetti Allah…...

President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that as a beneficiary of a free and fair election he would bequeath same to his successor and the nation in 2023. A statement by a presidential spokesman, Garba Shuhu quoted the President spoke at... Read more via Naijaloaded – https://ift.tt/38jGq9k...

The PDP candidate in the 2019 presidential election said the hope of the party was that the APC would continue with good governance but it had proved Nigerians wrong. Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has proposed to the ... Read more via Tori News – https://ift.tt/2uZftcV Get More...