Speaker of the Zamfara State House of Assembly, Sanusi Garba Rikiji, has been arrested by officials of the Department of State Service, DSS, in the state. Also apprehended by the secret police were the deputy speaker of the Assembly, Muhammad Abubakar Gumi; the majority leader, Isah Abdulmumini and the chief whip, Abdullahi Dansadau. It was…
Some students of the Niger Delta University students recently took to the streets to demonstrate the closure of their school. Students of the institution in Bayelsa State blocked some roads in their area to kick against the strike embark upon by their lecturers. Lecturers of the school stayed away from work after government failed to…
Reports reaching us indicate that a tanker loaded with Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, otherwise known as petrol, has been gutted by fire. According to an official of the FRSC, who made this known, the tanker burst into flames in the process of trans-loading into another tanker at the Ogere, Ogun State end of the Lagos-Ibadan…
A suspected supplier of logistics to the Niger Delta Avengers’ militant group has been apprehended, the Nigerian Navy has claimed. The suspect, according to a statement signed the Navy’s Director of Information, Commodore Christian Ezekobe, was apprehended on July 11, 2016, at about 11am. In the statement made available to newsmen in Abuja, it was…
A new Commandant for the Nigeria Army School of Infantry, NASI, has been appointed. It was disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari approved Brig Gen A. O. Folorunsho for the position. He is to take over affairs of the military school.
The National Association of Forensic and Investigation Auditors led by the President, Mrs Enape Victoria, on Wednesday, July 20, 2016, paid a courtesy visit to the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu. The group said the call was in solidarity of the enormous task of fighting economic and financial…
Report reaching us indicates that the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, is at the moment having a closed-door meeting with Senators Oluremi Tinubu and Dino Melaye. The two lawmakers have been at loggerheads lately after an altercation the erupted between them at an executive session at the Senate last week. Tinubu claimed she was insulted by…
President Muhammadu Buhari has debunked reports that he has ordered the investigation of the immediate past Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Ibe Kachikwu, over oil swap deals. The President, in a statement issued on Tuesday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, disclosed also appealed to Nigerians…
On Tuesday, the Senate held a closed-door ministerial briefing with the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele. According to what we gathered, the meeting was to gauge the effectiveness of the monetary and fiscal policies that have been adopted by the apex bank to salvage the current economic situation in the…
Foremost politician and Woman Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Kemi Nelson, has denied receiving N75 million from Senator Oluremi Tinubu to organise a rally against Senator Dino Melaye on Wednesday in Abuja for reportedly assaulting Tinubu at the senate chamber last week. Nelson was reacting to a report by a civil rights movement,…