A man, Alhaji Ibrahim Hassan Alkali has been reported missing in Abuja. Alkali, a native of Kano and a close friend of the Esu Galadimawa, Chief Tanko Zhimiko, was said to have been taken away from Galadimawa Roundabout at about 7pm, on Monday, May 28....
Former Liberian President, Mr. Charles Taylor who was in April, 2012 convicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court sitting in The Hague will tomorrow (Wednesday) be sentenced. The sentencing judgment in the trial of the convicted former ...
Dissatisfied with the federal government’s slow pace of effort at including them on the third phase of the amnesty programme, militants across the Edo, Delta, Akwa-Ibom and Bayselsa states have threatened to resume hostilities should government f...
The United States may have changed its decision to designate Boko Haram as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO) as a result of mixed reactions that followed a proposal by the Department of Justice to classify the group as such. Top official of ...
Following the recent decision of the Senate Committee on Upstream Oil Sector to conduct investigation to determine the truth behind the acquisition, transfers and payments relating to OPL 245 (Oil Prospecting Licence) between the federal government and...
Edo State Police Command, yesterday, alleged that some unscrupulous politicians were importing arms and recruiting thugs to unleash terror in the state ahead of the July 14 governorship election. The Commissioner, Balogun, Olayinka, who spoke in a chat...
Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomole yesterday said he was optimistic that the Nigeria police would fish out the killers of his principal private secretary, Olaitan Oyerinde. He spoke yesterday in Ilorin, Kwara State at the resid...
The Inter Agency Task Team (IATT) on anti graft war, made up of the EFCC, ICPC, NEITI, Code of Conduct and 17 other government agencies, has advocated a holistic national strategy to combat endemic corruption in the country. The agencies said that the ...
Ibrahim Idris is the Commissioner of Police, Kano State. He was formerly the Director of the International Peacekeeping Operations at Police Force Headquarters and the Mission Police Commissioner for the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) and th...
When the Bayelsa State government reached out to oil multinationals on their co-operation in the desperate need to check the problems of pipeline vandalisation, oil theft and the rising incidence of illegal refineries, many thought it would be one of t...
Unknown gunmen shot dead four people and injured one other while they were playing poker cards at Gidan Hamisu Gurgu relaxation spot in Gaida quarters of Kano municipality. According to an eyewitness, the gunmen came on a motorbike and took position be...
The Imo State police command recorded a major breakthrough on Wednesday by rescuing 10 victims in a thick forest believed to be the hideout of kidnappers in Orogwe, Owerri West local government areas of the state. The state police commissioner, Mr Chri...
Men of the State Security Service (SSS) in Kebbi State yesterday arrested two men with 260 cartons of illicit medicines, Totulin syrup, worth N6 million at the premises of Cambridge Nursery School in Birnin Kebbi. This was disclosed to the press by the...
Kano State government has discovered about 8, 000 ghost workers after a recent biometric data exercise in its civil service. The state commissioner for Information, Dr. Umar Jibril, who disclosed this to newsmen after the weekly executive council meeti...
Facts have emerged as to why the Federal Government, prominent scholars and diplomats are vehemently opposed to the move by the United States (US) to formally list Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist organisation (FTO). The federal government raised its ...