Bukola Saraki surrenders to EFCC
After nearly two weeks exchange of words with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the former Kwara State Governor, Dr. Bukola Saraki, Monday surrendered to the operatives of the commission...
Jonathan promises massive infrastructural dev. across Nigeria
ABUJA - President Goodluck Jonathan has said the administration was commitment to transform every part of the nation through constructions of massive infrastructure and institutional development. Jonathan who made the...
Navy sanctions two officers for indiscipline
MAKURDI—The Nigerian Navy has sanctioned and withdrawn two of its officers (names withheld) from the Able Regulatory and Qualifying Course 02/13 of the Naval Provost and Regulating School in Makurdi,...
N35m salary: Senator Kabir Marafa vows to resign if…
GUSAU—Senator Kabir Marafa, representing Zamfara Central Zone, named by a national daily as one of the 24 Senators allegedly collecting N35 million as salaries monthly, has threatened to resign if...
Nigeria Students’ union leader condemns Delta House over US tour
Delta State Chairman of National Association of Nigerian Students, Prince Koyoyo Uhrorho, has condemned the leadership of the Delta State House of Assembly for wasting N1.2 billion on capacity building...
Benin: Abductors of Edo teachers reduce ransom to N2.5m each
BENIN — Kidnappers of three primary school teachers in Edo State have further slashed the ransom placed on them to a total of N7.5 million, Vanguard gathered, Monday, in Benin...
Nigeria: 44 worshippers shoot dead in Borno mosque
Suspected Islamist extremists have shot dead 44 worshippers in an attack on a mosque in Nigeria’s restive northeast, a senior government official said on Monday. “Gunmen believed to be Boko...
Nigeria: Court remands traffic officer over alleged robbery
ABEOKUTA — An Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court, Monday, remanded a 32-year-old Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency (TRACE) official, Adedeji Ibrahim, in prison custody for alleged robbery. The police prosecutor, Insp. Augustine...
Delta State: Runaway kidnap kingpin resurfaces in hometown
WARRI—THE most wanted kidnapper in Delta State, Kelvin, who fled his hometown, Kokori in Ethiope-East Local Government Area of the state in the wake of the manhunt for him by...
Nigeria: 12 soldiers, 7 police killed in uprising
MAIDUGURI — The commander of the Military Joint Task Force, JTF, fighting North Eastern Nigeria’s Islamic uprising has admited that 12 soldiers and seven police officers were killed in recent...