The Speaker House of Representatives, Honourable Femi Gbajabiamila, has unveiled some of the plans by the House, aimed at tackling police brutality in the country. In a statement signed personally on Wednesday, Gbajabiamila said over the next 30 days, the House will work with the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), civil society and with Nigerians of […]
…Suspect, accomplice, to be charged to court after Investigation – EFCC The Nigeria Customs Service, Kano/Jigawa Area Command on Wednesday says it has arrested a Dubai-bound passenger, Sanusi Labaran with 5,342 Automated Teller Machine, ATM cards concealed inside a sack of beans while trying to board a flight, Ethiopian flight to Dubai through the Malam […]
Gunmen seized about 20 people in volatile central Mali, with nine remaining in detention Wednesday after their captors released the other hostages, local and security officials said. The kidnapping occurred on Tuesday during a weekly market in the village of Farabougou, near the central Malian town of Niono, according to Boukary Coulibaly, the village chief. […]
By Frederick Nwabufo I believe you have all noticed. Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo is regaining his stature and waxing reformist on some of the problems dogging Nigeria. He is breaking out of the supposed cabal-stitched straitjacket into a tinderbox of chutzpah. It seems he has elected to remove the duct tape from his mouth at this […]
The Police Command in Niger state has arrested four suspects with human head in Sabon Pegi, Mashegu Local Government Area of the state. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Adamu Usman, said the men were arrested on October 3, at about 17:30 hours. ” Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspects exhumed and severed […]
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says Nigerians want food on their table so government at all levels must work together to deliver good governance. He said the strict adherence to the principle of separation of powers will impede development and good governance. Speaking at an executive-legislative retreat at the presidential villa on Tuesday, Osinbajo said the executive […]
The President Muhammadu Buhari, presided over the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council. The meeting is the last to be held before Buhari will lay the 2020 Appropriation Bill before the National Assembly. The presentation has been scheduled for Thursday. While Buhari presided over the meeting from the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, […]
Babagana Zulum, governor of Borno state, has asked the army to take the fight to Boko Haram hideouts in the north-east. Troops, under the army’s operation Lafiya Dole, have been fighting Boko Haram insurgents in the region for the last 10 years. The governor, who was the keynote speaker at the chief of army staff […]
Men with deeper voices are less committed in relationships and more likely to cheat, according to new research. The findings from Southwest University in Chongqing, China, conducted experiments with 116 men and 145 women. Participants – with an average age of 20 – had the pitch of their voices measured and were asked questions about […]
The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Dispute in the United States has relieved Nigeria of a $1.5bn liability in an application for arbitration filed by two oil companies. Abubakar Malami, minister of justice and attorney-general of the federation (AGF), said in a statement the arbitral tribunal gave the judgment during its sitting on Tuesday. […]
