As President Muhammadu Buhari travels to the United States (US) today to engage President Barack Obama in talks on economic, security, financial and anti-graft issues, it has emerged that he has ordered the preparation of the case-file that would lead […]
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The Ekiti State Command of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Sunday paraded two suspects for allegedly carrying out illegal abortion. The suspects, according to the State Commandant of the Corps, Raji Adedoyin, specialised in carrying out abortions […]
Nigeria’s domestic intelligence agency says it has raided several properties belonging to the country’s former national security adviser to prevent “treasonable felony”, a charge that can include plotting to overthrow the government. The Department of State Security (DSS) said last […]
INDICATIONS emerged at the weekend that the failure of President Muhammadu Buhari to announce ministers after nearly two months of assuming office is not unconnected with the alleged malfeasance, fraud and misappropriation of funds traced to most of the ministerial […]
Ex-Chief Security Officer (CSO) to former president Goodluck Jonathan, Mr. Gordon Obuah has been arrested and detained by the Department of State Services (DSS). A security source said Obuah is being held in connection with an ongoing investigation into illegal […]
By African Spotlight The Islamic State has reportedly kidnapped a Nigerian, Ghanaian and Egyptian migrants in Libya. Their passports and photos were posted online through the Twitter handle, -T- @TDecker75 on Friday night. The passports posted on the Internet indicated […]
A pastor, Onyekwere Osondu, 48, has pleaded with an Ojo Customary Court, Lagos, to dissolve his 10-year-old marriage, saying his wife eloped to Liberia with another man. Osondu told the court that the wife, Ogechi, travelled to Liberia over a year […]
About 250 persons narrowly escaped death yesterday when a First Nation Airways plane hit another stationed aircraft belonging to same airline at the Murtala Mohammed Airport 2 (MMA2), Lagos, while taking off to Port Harcourt. While the airline refused to […]
The Nigerian government appears to have finally succeeded in taking the pirate channel, Radio Biafra, off the airwaves in south east of the country after earlier claims turned out false. At 7:30 am Saturday, the broadcaster was off the air […]
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Solomon Arase, has ordered Police Commissioners to dismantle roadblocks set up by local government officials for collection of revenue on the nation’s highways. The directive, which followed a similar order for the removal of military […]