Recent judgments of the Election Petition Tribunals in the Plateau State have stirred a hornet’s nest as the people who have rejected most of the tribunal judgments, alleging serious political interference. Seriki Adinoyi writes. A majority of the people of Plateau State have rejected the recent judgments delivered by the National and State Houses of Assembly…
The President of the National Association of Parents Teachers Association of Nigeria (NAPTA), Alhaji Haruna Danjuma has pleaded with the abductors of the students of Greenfield University, Kaduna, to spare the lives of their victims. One Sani Idris Jalingo who claimed to be the leader of the bandits that abducted the students on April 18…
Below is the full text of a press statement by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), detailing alleged involvement of the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Abba Kyari and four other police officers in illicit drug deal. TEXT OF PRESS BRIEFING BY THE NATIONAL DRUG LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY, NDLEA, ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14,…
Kano state governor, Abba Yusuf, has asked security agencies in the state to take over all public places and assets, which according to him, were immorally plundered and sold by the Ganduje administration, pending the final decision of his government. The governor stated this in a twit on his Twitter handle on Monday. Yusuf noted…
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 magistrate court grade 1 in Jalingo, Taraba state, has sentenced three persons arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) to 10 years’ imprisonment over arms trafficking. The convicts — Sakina Garba, Ali Gono, and Ibrahim Abdulrashi were arrested between January and February 2026 along the Wukari-Jalingo road in Taraba with arms…
