•Gani Adams The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yoruba land, Iba Gani Adams, has sought the permission of governors in the South-West to go after the killers of three Yoruba monarchs. Adams, in an open letter to the Governor of Ekiti State, Abiodun Oyebanji, yesterday, said he had the capacity to deal with those he called […]
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) is yet to take delivery of an aircraft 10 years after paying a deposit of N1,054,222,576.00 to an Israeli company, the Auditor General for the Federation (OAuGF) has said. The payment was made in 2010, but no aircraft was supplied as of March 2020, according to an audit report […]
•Judges Forty days after 11 Justices were screened and confirmed by the Senate following their nomination for promotion to the Supreme Court, the justices are yet to be sworn in. Their nomination was made to avoid violating the provision of the Constitution that stipulates 21 justices for the apex court, reports The Guardian. Before the [&hell...
Bureau De Change operators (BDCs) in Abuja got a rude shock yesterday as security operatives swooped on them in a sting operation designed to arrest the free fall of the naira, believed to be fuelled by the antics of currency speculators. The security agencies, working in cahoots with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), quizzed […]
•Tudun Biri village One month after the tragic error drone bombing that claimed over 100 lives from three communities in Tudun Biri village of Igabi LGA of Kaduna State, residents say they are still waiting to be compensated for their losses, and the reports and outcome of the various committees set up by governments at […]
Five months after unknown persons carted away some of the parts of the Instrument Landing System (ILS) of the international runway 18/36R of Murtala Muhammad Airport (MMA), Lagos, the suspects remain unidentified. This is happening despite an investigative panel set up by the management of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) to ...
•Akeredolu and late Yar’Adua “We always know the right thing for others to do until we are confronted with a similar challenge,” Olusegun Adeniyi, former Special Adviser to late President Umaru Yar’Adua, wrote in a recent article published by ThisDay. Adeniyi was referring to ailing Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, who is currently on ...
•Nigerian Police The police command in Kaduna State has rescued a kidnapped victim after six months’ in captivity. The state Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Mansir Hassan, said this when he spoke with our correspondent today in Kaduna, reports NAN. ‘”On Monday, at about 1600 hours, our anticrime patrol mission on Madachi-Galadimawa ...
Five infants among the 17 villagers abducted by bandits a month ago in Anguwar Danlele and Anguwar Bawa villages, located within the Randagi ward of the Birnin Gwari Local Government Area have died in captivity. It could be recalled that on October 7, 17 villagers, including the infants’ mothers, were taken into the bush by […]
Russian police today said they had arrested 60 people suspected of storming an airport in the Muslim-majority Caucasus republic of Dagestan, seeking to attack Jewish passengers coming from Israel. Dozens of protesters, many of them chanting “Allahu akbar” (God is greatest), broke through doors and barriers at Makhachkala airport on Sunday, wit...

