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As activities for the 2019 general elections gather steam, Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-General Tukur Buratai, has ordered the setting up of a standing special court martial to try senior army officers found complicit in favouring political groups and showing partisanship to politicians...

There was pandemonium yesterday morning at Siluko road Benin City when angry commercial drivers took to the streets protesting the death of four persons in a ghastly motor accident. It was learnt that the accident occurred Monday night when a commercial bus, Toyota Vanette, with number plates...

The Edo State Police Command, yesterday, paraded a notorious kidnapper, Muritala Umaru, who confessed to have made over N100 million from kidnapping. Umaru, who also is a herdsman, was apprehended with an AK-47 rifle, breech number KO340119 and 10 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition. Click here to...

Confederation of Africa Football is looking into the alleged attempted bribing of the match referee for the Plateau United and USM Alger of Algeria Confederation Cup tie at the Agege Stadium in Lagos. Reports in South Africa suggested that Victor Gomes was approached by unknown individuals to...

The Nigeria Policing Programme (NPP) has revealed that community-based security system is most viable to tackle temporary security challenges facing the country. Team leader of NPP in Enugu State, Mr Larry Oguego told newsman in Enugu yesterday that the NPP opens an all-encompassing bottom-up...

Some gunmen have shot dead a cleric, Pastor Benson Isibor, in the Egor Local Government Area of Edo State. It was learnt that Isibor was killed at his residence on First Oranmiyan Street on Monday. Click here to read more

A 400-Level student of the Department of Electrical Electronics at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Gabriel Chinonso, has died at the swimming pool of the Yankari Games Resort. The student was said to have drowned in the swimming pool on Sunday. Click here to read more

The national leadership of the All Progressives Congress has written a letter to the Independent National Electoral Commission on its plans to hold congresses and convention across the country. Investigations according to the source in Abuja on Tuesday showed that the letter was written to the...

The Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, says it is worrisome that the older generation is refusing to leave the scene for the younger generation. Onaiyekan, who is a former President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, said this at the presentation of a book titled...

The Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Dr Ali Ahmad, on Tuesday accused the Federal Government of failing to show the required immediate response after the armed robbery attacks about some banks in Offa in the Offa Local Government Area of the state. Ahmad, a close ally of the Senate...

The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has stated that the nation’s security degenerated “dangerously” because the All Progressives Congress’ Federal Government chose to play politics with the security challenge in Rivers State. The governor also called on professionals to show interest in...

The Manager of Skye Bank Plc, Abak Road Branch, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Ubong Ekpe, is dead. According to source it was learnt that Ubong, who was married with children, drowned along with his brother, Francis, at the Ibeno Beach, Iwuokpom community, in the Ibeno Local Government Area of the...

The Federal Government on Tuesday confirmed the repatriation of the sum of $322.5m to Nigeria by the Swiss Government as part of funds looted by the late former military Head of State, Gen. Sanni Abacha. The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, confirmed the release of the fund in a...

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested five operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad for allegedly harassing a businessman in the state for bribe after seizing his company documents. The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Chike Oti, said the men were attached to the Ipakodo base...

The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, on Tuesday, told the Internally Displaced Persons, who were displaced due to Fulani herdsmen attacks, to go back home and use stones to defend themselves. This, he said, was because he was tired of keeping IDPs in Camps. Click here to read more

Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of Lagos High Court, Ikeja, on Tuesday granted Mr. Semasa Kolade James, the son of a late traditional ruler, Oba Afolabi Ogungbe James, bail in the sum of N20 million following the arraignment of the Prince on two count charges bordering on the theft of … Read more...

Military operatives and men of the Department of State Service (DSS) have arrested a Boko Haram suspect, alleged to specialize in making explosives for bomb attacks by the terror group. Spokesman of the Operation LAFIYA DOLE, Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, said the suspect was apprehended … Read...

FOLLOWING the spate of protests that have greeted the increase in tuition fee recently announced by the governing council of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, AAUA, the Ondo State government, Tuesday, explained its role in the decision leading to the increase in the state-owned...

A constitutional lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari will sent be packing during the 2019 election. Ozekhome noted that it was the President’s constitutional right to seek re-election, just as it is “the duty of Nigerians to decide his fate at the polls.” … Read...

The Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has said that his principal never pledged only one-term. Buhari, 75, had on Monday shortly before he left for London, declared his intention to run for presidential election in 2019. Adesina, speaking on...