Senator Isah Misau For allegedly making injurious falsehood against the Nigeria Police Force and the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris. The Federal Government on Thursday (today) arraigned Senator Isah Misau, representing Bauchi Central Senatorial District, before the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Maitama, Abuja. The senator, who attended court from home, pleaded not guilty…
Not less than 1,000 Nigerians citizens are gnashing their teeth in pain in Thai jails, according to the Nigeriaโs Ambassador to Thailand, Mr. Nuhu Bamali, has said. Bamali said this while speaking at the Africa Gems and Jewellery Exhibition and Seminar in Abuja on Wednesday. He said, โOver 1,000 Nigerians are currently in jail in…
Speaker of the Nigeria House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara The National Assembly, Speaker of the lower chamber, the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, on Wednesday briefed governors under the aegis of the Nigeria Governorsโ Forum on the National Assemblyโs efforts to amend the nationโs constitution. Dogaraโs briefing came a few weeks after the…
Cameroon civilians travel in a police vehicle along a street in the administrative quarter of Buea some 60kms west of Douala on October 1, 2017.<br />A young man from Cameroonโs English-speaking region was shot dead by security forces in the city of Kumba on the eve of an expected symbolic declaration of independence by anglophone…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo National Caretaker Chairman of the PDP, Senator Ahmed Makarfi The major opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party has reinstated that it will not compel the ex-President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo to join and or return to the party as member or as a stakeholder. The PDP said it would respect the decision of…
In Ibadan, the Council of Ibadan Authentic Mogajis has call on the general public to note that his life is under threat when he alleged that they have been receiving calls from anonymous persons threatening them to stop going to the Popoyemoja palace of the Olubadan of Ibadan land, Oba Saliu Adetunji, or risk being…
President Muhammadu Buhari PENSION – The Federal Government says it will commence the payment of pension benefits to retired war-affected police officers and their next-of-kin. The News Agency of Nigeria, which reported that this was contained in a statement by the management of the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate in Abuja on Wednesday, indicated that President…
Gani Adams The National Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress, Gani Adams, was chosen as the new Are Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland after considering his antecedents as a Yorubaman who had exhibited passion for defending his people, their culture and tradition said the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, on Wednesday. The Alaafin on Sunday…
The Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad Officers who allegedly harassed a young lady, Kachi Anifela Zion in Ilorin, would undergo trial on Thursday. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Ajayi Okasanmi, confirmed this in an interview with journalists on Wednesday in Ilorin. Kachi who had narrated her ordeal on Instagram in the hands…