“Without a stable Somalia, the whole region of the Horn of Africa will remain unstable and by and large, the African continent. There are proofs and evidence that (for) some time Boko Haram have been trained in Somalia and they went back to Nigeria,” President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said
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“The state government was planning to celebrate the success of her case while the family was planning a thanksgiving service before her death.
The leader said contrary to reports in the media, the Senate did not suspend its passage indefinitely, but only said that February 25 “may not be feasible”
While Newswatch Daily has not been on the newsstand since Friday and will also likely be absent on Monday, National Mirror was said to have produced a few copies, most of which were delivered to advertisers
He said: “We must not be frightened into believing in God of ‘now, now’, cajoled by mouth watering material attractions or ostentatious living of some ministers of God
The man, Lanrewaju Jaiyeola, 39, was intercepted by the operatives where he was sighted in a suspicious manner carrying a backpack and in an unkempt manner
Kwaji said: “The Divisional Police in charge of the area, including the Divisional Police Officer, have been drafted to the area, which is the boundary of Plateau and Taraba States
The initial figure from the clash at Omoku, the headquarters of Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of the state, was put at six by the Rivers State Police Command
NAN recalls that some media reports on Saturday the Federal Government has sacked the Vice Chancellors of 12 federal universities that were established by the administration of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan
The Senate had penultimate week, following a petition forwarded to it by Kashamu’s lawyer, Barrister Ajibola Oluyede, on alleged plan to abduct the embattled senator by NDLEA operatives for onward extradition to America to face prosecution, urged both the NDLEA and the office of the AGF and Minister of Justice to drop the alleged plan and follow the rule of law
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that a gang of armed robbers invaded Skye Bank, First Bank and Union Bank in Ikirun on Friday evening
He said Nigerians, irrespective of their age brackets, should always exhibit the good virtues of Mohammed rather than mourn his death.
Buhari noted that the country mourned the death of Mohammed because he was on his way to putting Nigeria back to the path of order and discipline, after years of drift, corruption and near despair.
But the CCSGs in a protest letter to Buhari, signed by its President, Etuk Bassey Williams, and Secretary-General, Ibrahim Abubakar, said the action contravenes the provisions of the Universities (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act No.11 of 1993 (as amended) by decree No.25, 1996 and further amended in 2003 and 2012 respectively and other agreements as contained in the 2009 FGN staff union agreement
The 12 federal universities were established by former President Goodluck Jonathan
“As it is now, the situation has been brought under control, with more anti-riot policemen drafted to reinforce the existing security in the town
While those from foreign lands who gave the bribes have since been punished by their respective governments, the beneficiaries from Nigeria are yet to be fished out and sanctioned.
A witness said Eleanya, who represented Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Constituency in the Rivers State House of Assembly between 1999 to 2003 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, was shot in the early hours of Thursday by yet to be identified gunmen
The Chairman said it was outrageous that at the Vice President’s residence, a mosque that will house 12 people was put at N96 million, the chapel that will house 20 people will go for N86 million
The Justice said: “While the court commends the introduction of card readers, the innovation, however, cannot supersede the voters register.
“The extant laws of the Federation provides for the use of voters register but the card reader irrespective of its importance does not have a place in any extant law of the land
A source informed New Telegraph that other properties traced to the former CAS were also being held by his wife and children.
New Telegraph had reported that the EFCC discovered N17.5 billion in the accounts of wives of three airforce chiefs.