The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has assured Nigerians that the anti-corruption agency will continue to protect the image of the country. He made the pledge in Ibadan on Friday, while featuring on a live radio programme, Security Guide, at the Federal RadioContinue Reading
Police in Borno on Friday, said they had arrested two “high profile’’ Boko Haram commanders believed to have participated in attacks on security locations in Nigeria and Cameroon.The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Mohammed Aliyu, made this known in Maiduguri while briefing newsmen. Aliyu said that one ofContinue Reading
President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged not to consider former Bauchi State Governor, Mohammed Abubakar for any ministerial or political appointment. A civil society group, Coalition against Financial Crimes and Injustice (CFCI), gave the advice yesterday at a press briefing in Bauchi. According to the chairman of the group, AlhajiContinue Reading
The Peoples Democratic Party on Thursday said it has set up a committee to investigate the conduct of its lawmakers in the National Assembly elections. The party had directed its members to vote Ali Ndume, as the Senate President and Umar Bargo as the Speaker of the House of Representatives.Continue Reading
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has rejected the inauguration of a few members of the Edo and Bauchi states House of Assembly, describing supposed election of principal officers behind closed doors as a joke and an embarrassment to Democratic practices. In a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Mallam LanreContinue Reading
The federal government is considering proscribing the Al-majiri system of education in order to tackle insecurity. Babagana Monguno, national security adviser, who disclosed this at the end of the national executive council meeting in Abuja, said the ban is to ensure that no child is deprived of basic education. AlmajiriContinue Reading
Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has said that he will no longer appoint people older than him into serious positions of responsibility in his government. Ayade clocked 52 last March. The governor was explaining why it was taking him many weeks to name his commissioners and other appointeesContinue Reading
A member of the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC), Halima Umar, abducted by Boko Haram insurgents in January, has been freed. She was handed over to the Borno State Deputy Governor, Umar Kadafur on Thursday by the GOC 7 Div Brgd General Abdulmalik Biu alongside the State director of theContinue Reading
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Thursday threw more light on why President Muhammadu Buhari relieved the present Group Managing Director, Dr. Maikanti Baru of the responsibility. The corporation in a statement that the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu issued in AbujaContinue Reading
Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, on Thursday, withdrew Festus Adedayo’s appointment. The Senate President took the decision, barely 48 hours after appointing Adedayo as Special Adviser on Media and Publicity. This came after some supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) kicked against the appointment. On Thursday morning, a group known asContinue Reading
