Human rights lawyer and activist Femi Falana (SAN) yesterday threw his weight behind the Department of State Service’s (DSS) invasion of the residences of the former National Security Adviser Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) in Abuja and Sokoto last week. Citing […]
The detained ex-Chief Security Officer to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Gordon Obua, has complained of being denied his medications despite being diabetic and hypertensive. In a statement issued on his behalf by his lawyer, Mr. Onochie Onwuegbuna, he complained about […]
Former Jigawa State governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido, has asked his two sons, Aminu and Mustapha, to forgive him over their prison experience, as he claimed total responsibility for their ordeal in the hands of the law. In an interview with […]
Ahead of the meeting of President Muhammadu Buhari with officials of the Obama government this week, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Obama to “back up his expressed commitment on stolen assets by taking thoughtful and aggressive […]
Makurdi – The Benue Government on Sunday said it was fully committed to the amnesty programme extended to those in possession of all kinds of illegal arms in the State. The Special Adviser on Media, Information and Communication Technology to […]
Bala Hassan, the Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), in charge of Zone 10, has commended residents of Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara States for their peaceful conduct during the Eid el-Fitr celebrations. Hassan said in Sokoto on Sunday that crime […]
UNITED States (U.S.) Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken has given an insight into the likely outcome of today’s talk between President Muhammadu Buhari and his host President Barack Obama in Washington DC. Blinken said the meeting of the two […]
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 […]
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 […]