Adenike said the attackers took advantage of the porous nature of the police headquarters because it was not fenced
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Al-Bashir, who was indicted by the ICC for alleged war crimes in Darfur, reportedly left Abuja on Tuesday morning after attending the Abuja + 12 AU Summit on HIV and AIDS
The All-Share Index also appreciated by 165.34 basis points or 0.44 per cent to close at 37,885.66, when compared with the 37,720.32 recorded on Monday
The OPL 245 deal, popularly known as the Malabu oil deal, has turned into a major scandal, with allegations of money exchanging hands leveled against senior government officials, including Adoke and President Goodluck Jonathan
The governors made the call in Port Harcourt, Rivers State in a communiqué jointly signed by them after a solidarity visit to Governor Chibuike Amaechi
Members of the Union Group at its General Assembly in Lagos, unanimously agreed that fresh congresses be conducted for the state
The Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufa’i, made the call on Tuesday in an interview with newsmen after a Workshop on World Bank Initiated Africa Centres of Excellence Project in Abuja
The witnesses, Messrs Adekunle Alabi and Alimi Abubakar, made the allegation while testifying at the trial of Fabunmi, a former DPO of Pen Cinema Police Station, Agege, Lagos
The explosives included wartime munitions recovered from old military trench at Okigwe and five primed improvised explosive devices found at a robbery scene at a new generation bank in Ezinihitte, Mbaise Local Government Area
The minister said all monies appropriated for constituency projects would be warehoused in an account at the Central Bank of Nigeria pending the readiness of Ministries, Departments and Agencies to execute the projects
The proposed removal of the Land Use Act, NYSC Act and the Public Complaints Commission from the constitution, were also rejected by the senators
The minister said he would recommend that an appreciable percentage of government’s expenditure be spent on the MSMEs sub-sector annually to enhance the growth of the economy
The statement said the short-term observers would be supported by team of nine coordinating and technical team from the commission’s Democracy and Electoral Assistance Unit, the Pan-African Parliament and the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa
In the statement, Tukur urged the legislators to avoid overheating the polity by their actions, adding that democracy could not thrive in an atmosphere of violence and anarchy
He solicited the cooperation of both orthodox and traditional medical practitioners in the effort to apprehend other suspects currently on the run with bullet wounds
This was contained in a statement by Tony Okeke, the party`s Acting National Publicity Secretary, in Abuja on Monday
Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, who inaugurated the commission, urged them to investigate and ascertain the remote and immediate causes of the crises
The Minister of State for Finance, Dr. Yerima Ngama, told newsmen after the FAAC meeting that the distributable statutory revenue for the month was N623.76 billion
ASUU made its position known in Abuja when it appeared before the joint National Assembly Committees on Education
Amadi said that investors would not come to invest in the country without good and fair tariff, stressing that fixed charge was component of electricity tariff all over the world