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,…
Some members of the opposition party in Rivers State, the All Progressives Congress, APC, stormed the capital of the state, Port Harcourt, demanding the swearing-in of its candidate in the state House of Assembly election. The party faithful, numbering over 2000, on Tuesday morning, besieged the premises of the Rivers State House of Assembly complex on…
A former Nigerian Ambassador to the Central African Republic, Yahaya Tabari, has died in a fatal car accident. The late Nigerian envoy was said to have died on Monday in an auto crash that occurred along the Kaduna-Zaria expressway. Tabari, 64, worked with the Nigerian Foreign Mission in several countries including Saudi Arabia, Benin Republic…
The 24 vehicles belonging to the Nigeria Police Force, which the Acting Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, accused his predecessor, Solomon Arase, to have carted away with have been found. On Monday afternoon, Arase, from his base in London, where he went for his son’s graduation ceremony, denied leaving the Force with the vehicles.…