The Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, in a bid to strengthen the criminal justice system and standardise investigation processes in the Nigeria Police Force, has ordered a streamlining of all police investigative processes. The move, according to the IGP was to prevent duplication of investigation via indiscriminate petitions and transfer of cases initiated […]
Men of the Delta State Police Command have rescued a yet-to-be-identified man from taking his own life through a suicide attempt. This was contained in a Twitter message released on Sunday by the command’s Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bright Edafe. According to the message, a distress caller reached out to the police and […]
Troops of “Operation Hadin Kai’’ (OPHK) apprehended at least 79 terrorists and their collaborators in the Northeast in the last two weeks. Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Musa Danmadami, made the declaration in Abuja on Thursday at the bi-weekly news briefing on the operations of the armed forces. Danmadami said troops also eliminated many […]
Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State says it is his responsibility to convince the people of the state to vote the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, during the 2023 general elections. He also said voters will decide the popularity of the ruling party at the polls next year. “I belong […]
A group, The Amalgamated Arewa Youth Groups, on Thursday, vowed to mobilise no fewer than 10,000 youths to protest the award of N4 billion pipeline surveillance contract to repentant Niger Delta militant, Mr Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo by the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited. The group […]
Femi Gbajabiamila, Speaker of the House of Representatives, has told Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State that those he allegedly join to plot a conspiracy against him worked against the governor at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential primary. Wike had contested the presidential ticket of the party but lost to former Vice-President Atiku […]
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has said the commission would be neutral in the 2023 general elections, as it has no preferred candidate or political party. Yakubu said this on Wednesday in Abuja at the 4th Abubakar Momoh memorial lecture on ‘Electoral Act 2022: Imperatives for Political […]
The supreme court says its draft judgment in a suit regarding the 2020 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ward, local government and state congresses was erroneously released to the public. Some party members had gone before the Imo state high court in Owerri to contest the 2020 congresses that resulted in the Charles Ugwu-led executive. […]
Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, Minister of Interior, has taken down a cryptic note he dropped after the loss of Governor Gboyega Oyetola in Saturday’s election. Oyetola lost his reelection bid to Senator Ademola Adeleke whom he defeated four years ago. Aregbesola, who is the only Osun indigene among President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministers, had stayed away […]
Two-time Minister for Finance, Kalu Idika Kalu, has disagreed with Shiekh Ahmad Gumi over his comment on the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, and the agitation for Biafra. Gumi had in a post, said that the emergence of Obi had slowed down the agitation for Biafra by IPOB members, claiming that […]
