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Katsina PDP Youths Vow To Deliver Six Million Votes For Atiku

  Youths in Katsina State under the auspices of the Atiku Support Organization have vowed to deliver at least six million votes for the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar. The State Coordinator of the Organization, Yasir Ibrahim, disclosed this during the inauguration ceremony of the 34 Local Government Coordinators at […]

IRT Nabs Owerri Prison Escapes

  Officers of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) have rearrested two inmates who escaped from the Custodial Centre, Owerri during an attack on the facility by gunmen in April 2021. The suspects, Okechukwu Edison and Sunday Morrison were rearrested in Port Harcourt, Rivers State in an operation led by […]

We’ve identified 100 high-risk financiers of Boko Haram — FG

  The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, said weekend the federal government has identified 100 high-risk financiers of Boko Haram, According to him, the financiers have links to at least 10 countries of the world. Aregbesola made the disclosure at the 3rd Ministerial Conference on Counter-Terrorism Financing, with the theme, “No Money for Terror”, which […]

Hoodlums set Ebonyi INEC office ablaze

  HOODLUMS have set ablaze the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, destroying, among others, 340 ballot boxes and yet to be determined quantity of Permanent Voters’ Cards, PVCs. The attack is the third on INEC’s local government offices in less than three weeks, following […]

Saudi-bound trafficker conceals cocaine in sandals

  The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Sunday confirmed the arrest of a 56-year-old cocaine trafficker, Lawal Oyenuga, who was on a mission to deliver 400grams of the class A drug concealed in a pair of palm sandals in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, in a statement, also said a wanted […]

Finance Ministry Denies Budget Padding

  The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, has refuted allegations of budget padding by some ministries, departments and agencies. The minister, who said the federal government has taken steps to increase transparency in the budgeting process, noted that the funds in question were only wrongly captured in the budget estimates […]