***Arrests 11kidnap king pins, recorver7 AK-47 rifles, 121 live ammunitions The Operatives of the Nigeria Police Intelligence Response Team, working with the Taraba State Police Command, have arrested a total of eleven (11) notorious kidnapping suspects in Taraba State for their complicity and various criminal roles in the recent trend of kidnapping incidents in Taraba State.According to the Force public relations officer CP Frank Mba their kidnapping escapades included the kidnapping of a serving personnel of the Nigeria Customs Service, kidnapping of a relative of the Emir of Jalingo and the killing of a Police Sergeant in Jalingo, the Taraba…
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The House of Representatives panel on Public Account chaired by Dr Busayo Oluwole Oke(Osun-PDP) has summoned the Clerk to the National Assembly, CNA, Architect Amos Ojo to appear before it over the multiple audit queries raised by the office of the Auditor General of the Federation against the Management of the National Assembly The chairman who gave the order on Friday indicated that it has become imperative following the rumour making the rounds and the public outcry especially by the civil Society organizations that a whopping amount of money was missing in the National Assembly. According to Oke, “This committee…
Yusuf Buhari, the only son of President Muhammadu Buhari is now Talban Daura and district head of Kwasarawa community. Emir of Daura, Alhaji Farouk Umar, turbaned him on SaturdayAccording to the Emir Buhari deserved to be so appointed as district head considering the developmental strides brought to the emirate by his father. With the new role, Buhari(jnr) would be visiting Daura regularly and be participating in the daily routines of the emirate council, contributing his quota toward its development. The emir commended President Buhari for the positive impact his administration was making in rejuvenating the nation’s infrastructure and for its…
A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Grace Folashade Bent, has been exonerated from a family feud involving a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode. Fani-Kayode is currently in court with his estranged wife, Precious Chikwendu, who accused Senator Grent of intimation, harassment and being responsible for her inability to have access to her four kids produced by marriage to the former Minister. But Fani-Kayode has absolved the former Adamawa South Senator, Grace Bent, from the allegations against her by some bloggers on the social media, saying she has no hand in his family feud. In…
From Abel Daniel, Lafia The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC) Director General, prof. Moji Adeyeye has described fake drugs, expired products as the gravest onslaught on human life. Prof Moji stated this while delivering her speech at the north central destruction exercise of fake, falsified, substandard, ,expired products at the Lafia dump site in Lafia on Friday. Prof Moji who was represented at the destruction exercise by Mohammed Bashir, deputy director and plateau state coordinator said the products destroyed are estimated at a sum of N598, 088, 458, 50. “The products being destroyed today are made up…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have rescued 34 children along the Okene-Lokoja Expressway in Kogi State.The image maker of the agency Femi Babafemi, confirmed this in a statement on FridayHe.disclosed that 64,000 pump action gun cartridges and a new pump action gun were also seized. According to him the children between the ages of 8 and 14 were being trafficked from Ijebu-Ode in Ogun state to the Federal Capital Territory. “The minors packed in two commercial buses – Toyota Sienna and a 12- seater Mazda with registration numbers Lagos LND124FV and Oyo BDJ-683YK respectively, were recovered…
The Kogi State Commissioner of Police, Police CP Idrisu Dauda Dabban has urged all parents to caution their Children and wards, particularly the Youths and Teenagers who engage in the use of fireworks (Knockout) to desist forthwith.A statement by the police public relations officer William Aya said the Police is determined to deal decisively with anybody that want to cause disturbance of public peace.”Anybody caught will be arrested and prosecuted accordingly. “The Commissioner of Police hereby advised all law abiding people in the State to go about their legitimate businesses and warns that the Command will not hesitate to apply…
From Abel Daniel, Lafia A group under the auspices of Migili Cultural Development Association (MCDA) has decried lopsidedness in appointments by Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State.This was contained in a press statement that was signed by the National president Hon. Philip Ajeh which copy was made available to newsmen in Lafia, the state capital. The statement said the Migili nation has suffered serial marginalization and exclusion in the state executive council since the advent of the present administration of Governor Sule. According to the statement, “This has given rise to several interpretations and concerns within the Migili nation and…
A Civil Society Organisations for Transparency and Accountability (CSOTA) has alleged plot by the Kano State Government to discredit the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Barau Jibrin. The group while condemning the latest development, warned that if the Kano state Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, who they accused of sponsoring the campaign do not desist from the plot, he would be exposed. Taking a protest to the National Assembly on Friday in Abuja, spokesperson for the group, Comrade Sunday Attah, called on the EFCC, ICPC and the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to put their surveillance on Governor Ganduje,…
The forum of the serving Governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) under the aegis of Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) has joined the family and all Nigerians home and abroad to celebrate the 79th birthday of President Muhammadu Buhari.Buhari, today Friday clocked 79 years in age.In a statement signed Friday in Abuja, the chairman of the forum and Kebbi state governor, Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, acknowledged and commended President Muhammadu Buhari’s leadership, vision and commitment to a united prosperous Nigeria.The statement also expressed confidence that under the current administration the Nation will surmount all the challenges confronting her. “The Progressive…