A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the interim forfeiture of every asset of NOK University, located Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The presiding judge, Justice Zainab Abubakar, gave the order for the interim forfeiture on Wednesday while ruling on a motion ex-parte brought before the court by the Economic and…
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has called on the federal government to consider other strategies, including unconventional measures in addressing the security challenges in the north. In a communique issued on Wednesday at the end of the meeting of its board of trustees (BoT) in Kaduna, the forum said, the current approaches to fighting insurgents…
Hundreds of members of the Youth Wing of the All Progressives Congress (APC) under the aegis of “APC North-South Patriotic Coalition”, on Thursday stormed the National Secretariat of the party in Abuja to protest against alleged plans by the party to impose for President Goodluck Jonathan as its presidential candidate. The protesters carried banners and…
A father and his son have been arrested by the police for impersonation during the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Ishaq Oloyede, registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), disclosed this in an interview with journalists on Wednesday after inspecting the Kaduna State University University (KASU) Computer Based Test (CBT) Centre. Oloyede…
The Nigerian Air Force has announced the appointment of New Branch Chiefs and Air Officers Commanding (AOCs) and other senior officers. A statement issued on Wednesday by the spokesman of NAF, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, said the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Oladayo Amao, approved the appointment. Gabwet said the appointments were a routine…
The federal government said that analysis by the Nigerian Intelligence Unit (NFIU) between 2020 and 2021, has revealed 96 financiers of terrorism in Nigeria. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday, while presenting details of President Muhammadu Buhari’s fight against corruption and terrorism, also said 424…
