The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has attributed the rash of anti-Igbo sentiments in Lagos State and within a circle of well-connected officeholders in the federal government to President Bola Tinubu’s failure to caution his core loyalists who…
Customs seize explosives in Ogun, arrest suspects
The Nigeria Customs Service said it had seized 20 drums of carbide in Ijebu-Ode area of Ogun State. Addressing journalists in Ikeja on Tuesday, the Acting Custom Area Controller in charge of the Federal Operations Unit Zone A, Comptroller Ejibunnu…
Court admits letter alleging how Fani-Kayode collected N26m from NSA Office
A Federal High Court in Abuja Wednesday admitted in evidence a letter from the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) in the ongoing trial of former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode. The letter, according to the Economic and Financial…
Ndume seeks time frame to end insurgency
Chairman of the Senate committee on Army, Senator Ali Ndume, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to give the newly appointed service chiefs a time frame to address the insurgency and other security challenges facing the nation. Ndume who spoke with…
Buhari suspends amnesty programme coordinator
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the suspension of Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Professor Charles Quaker Dokubo. According to a State House statement by the President’s spokesman, Femi Adesina, that following numerous allegations and petitions surrounding the Presidential Amnesty…