A Kaduna State High Court on Monday ordered the Directorate of State Services (DSS) to “immediately” charge Tukur Mamu to Court for offences he is being alleged to have committed. Mamu, publisher of Kaduna based Desert Herald and media consultant to a controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmed Gumi, was arrested by the DSS in Cairo,…
A coalition of some civil society organisations (CSOs) in Kaduna state have asked security agencies to investigate and arrest an Islamic cleric behind an inciting video against, Christopher Musa, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) and the Kataf ethnic nationality in Kaduna state. An Islamic cleric, had in virile video which trended on social media, alleged…
By Callistus Agwaza in Jalingo Troops of the 6 Brigade and Sector 3 Operation Whirl Stroke, have dismantled terrorist hideouts in Rugga, Sarti and Yade communities in Taraba state. Army spokesperson, Maj. Gen. Onyema Nwachuku disclosed this in a statement on Sunday. He said the coordinated operations were part of deliberate efforts by the army…
An official of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Adeyemi Israel Abiodun has been sentenced to one year for N195.2m fraud. Until his conviction Abiodun was the Director of Logistics of the students union body at Federal University, Oye-Ekiti Chapter. The NANS leader, according to a statement on Wednesday by the Economic and Financial…
The Imo state police command has said that the late, Ahmed Gulak, a former aide to Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan did not inform the police about his movement before he was killed on Sunday in Owerri. In a statement, spokesman of the command, Bala Elkana, said Gulak left his hotel room in Owerri on Sunday morning…
The Kaduna state police command has asked all groups in the state, planning to participate in the nationwide protest against hunger and economic hardship, to provide necessary details of the protest from where it will start, when where and it will end. In a statement on Sunday, Mansir Hassan, spokesperson of the command, said providing…
