Another office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was set ablaze on Sunday in Njaba Local Government Area of Imo state by unknown persons. The commission in a statement, by its spokesman, Mr. Festus Okoye, condemned the attacked on its offices. Okoye said, the building was substantially burnt down, along with electoral materials,…
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), has resolved to deploy standby military troops to restore constitutional order in Niger Republic. ECOWAS President, Omar Alieu Touray, made the declaration on Thursday while reading the resolution of the regional body on the military junta in Niger at the end of the commission’s Extraordinary summit in…
The Kano state police command has arrested 41 suspects in connection with the killing of Rano Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Baba Ali, a Chief Suprintendant of Police (CSP). Spokesperson of the command, Abdullahi Kiyawa, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. Ali was killed on Sunday after hoodlums attacked Rano police station and set some parts of…
Some Christians under the aegis of the Christian Solidarity Worldwide Nigeria (CSW-N), on Tuesday, staged a peaceful protest demanding the immediate release of Leah Sharibu as she marks her 21st birthday in captivity. Sharibu was one of the 110 female students of the Government Girls’ Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, who were abducted…
A Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, has ordered the interim forfeiture of $4,719,054, N830,875,611, and several property linked to the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele. The PUNCH reports that the order was issued on Friday, by Justice Yellim Bogoro after an ex-parte motion by EFCC counsel Bilkisu Buhari and…
The Kaduna state police command have arrested a man for allegedly killing his 27 year old girl friend. Spokesman of the state command, Mohammad Jalige,said the suspect by name Kenneth was arrested in Kaduna while he was about to be lynched by angry mob. He said the girlfriend, a 27 year old lady whose named…
