The two men were charged in the city of Lyon on Wednesday with association with criminals and possession of explosives, the official said without naming the target or giving details of the plot.
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Marafa, who spoke with State House correspondents on Friday, said he was in the Presidential Villa to offer useful clues to President Muhammadu Buhari on way out the lingering security problem in the State.
Speaking at an interactive session with Public Affairs Officers in the employment of the State Government at LTV Combo Hall, Agidingbi, Ikeja, the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Kehinde Bamigbetan, noted that the State is a breeding ground of innovative activities, which must be well propagated.
The Minister of Interior, Retired Lieutenant General Abdulrahman Dambazau, while receiving the Award from the Controller-General of Prisons, Ahmed Ja’afaru, in Abuja, stated that the award was part of the positive results of the Prisons Reforms embarked upon by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Administration.
Kamaludden Olumo, the Customs Area Comptroller in Charge of Adamawa and Taraba states, presented the items to the government on behalf of the Comptroller-General of the service.
Olumo, who was represented by a Deputy Comptroller, Muhammed Usman, said that the donation was in compliance with the directive by President Muhammadu Buhari to bring succour to the Internally Displaced Persons.
The command spokesperson, DSP Andrew Aniamaka, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Asaba that the command had put adequate security measures in place to forestal any breach of public peace.
The Police Service Commission says henceforth police officers will no longer be promoted to the next rank without the requisite training programmes and examinations.
Nigerians have continued to react to the appointment of Yusuf Magaji Bichi, as the new Director-General of the Department of State Services by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Federal Government says President Muhammadu Buhari is not lopsided in the totality of appointments made into public offices and cannot be judged only on isolated case of security sector.
The Police Command in Anambra has described the rate of compliance with Friday’s sit-at-home order by the Independent People of Biafra in the state as low.
INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this on YIAGA Africa Watching The Vote Series with the theme: “Ending the Scourge of Vote Buying and Selling in Nigerian Elections’’.
The Director-General, National Emergency Management Agency, Mustapha Maihaja, has placed all Disaster Response Units across the country on red alert due to rise in water level.
Buhari gave the assurance when he received a delegation of Ogoni leaders from the Supreme Council of Ogoni Traditional Rulers, academia, elected leaders of MOSOP and representatives of women and youth groups from Ogoni land in Rivers at the State House, Abuja, on Friday.
Commercial banks, markets and business outlets in Umuahia, the Abia capital, opened for business on Friday, defying the sit-at-home order by the Independent People of Biafra.
A total of 7,644 Nigerians have been recruited into the Nigeria Air Force since assumption of office of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015, the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar, has said.
The North West zone of National Emergency Management Agency on Friday said 53 lives were lost to flood in both Katsina and Kaduna States, while 30 others were missing in the last four months.
The Commissioner of Police in Enugu State, Mohammed Danmallam, has applauded the residents for defying the order by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra to sit-at-home.
The Federal Government on Friday in Abuja inaugurated a 25-man National Planning Committee for the 2019 Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebration.
Ajani told the News Agency of Nigeria in Awka on Thursday that 310 out of the 615 piles in the project had been driven in addition to one pipe culvert and four box culverts.
Executive Director, YIAGA-Africa, Samson Itodo, made the call at the Watching the Vote Series with the theme: “Ending the Scourge of Vote Buying and Selling in Nigerian Elections” in Abuja.