Nasir El-Rufai, Kaduna State governor has said President Muhammadu Buhari was not aware of bandits’ threat to capture him until he informed him.   Terrorists had on Sunday July 24, 2022, after flogging abducted Abuja-Kaduna train victims in the forest, vowed in a trending video to capture Buhari and El-rufai.   However, Governor El-rufai, while speaking on a Radio Programme, ...

Gunmen suspected to be bandits on Wednesday night, attacked Owo town in Ondo State, injuring unspecified number of people. The latest attack comes less than two months after terrorists killed about 40 worshippers at St Francis Catholic Church, Owo. Reports said many people were injured in the attack which took place Wednesday evening, at Folahami Junction, where a construction company ...

The Nigerian Police Force and other security agencies are deploying their operatives to man critical infrastructure and facilities as the nationwide protest organised by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in solidarity with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) takes place today, Tuesday. This is the force warned those it called hoodlums to stay off the streets or face the ...

Beatrice, wife of Senator Ike Ekweremadu, the embattled former Nigerian deputy senate president, was on Monday granted bail by a London court, over allegations of human trafficking and organ harvesting.   Beatrice was arrested alongside her husband, Ike on June 23 by the London police, claiming they tried to traffic a minor to illegally harvest his organ. The claim that ...

Barely 24 hours after terrorists threatened to abduct President Muhammadu Buhari and Kaduna Governor Nasir el’Rufai in a viral video, troops of the Guards Brigade have been ambushed by armed bandits in Abuja.   The battalion is a unit under the Guards Brigade, which is responsible for protecting the president.   Three soldiers were wounded during the attack, which has ...

Ado Aleru, notorious banditry kingpin, who was recently named the Sarkin Fulani Yandoton Daji Emirate (the head of the Fulani in Yandoton Daji) in Zamfara State, in a chilling confession, said he does not kidnap people but kills them. The coronation of Mr Aleru, who is the leading terrorist in Tsafe and Faskari axis of Zamfara and Katsina states, generated ...

  As Nigeria’s public debt climbs to N41.6trn Nigeria’s fiscal position worsened in the first four months of the year as the cost of repaying debt surpassed the government’s revenue in the first quarter of 2022. According to details of the 2022 fiscal performance report for January through April, Nigeria’s total revenue stood at N1.63 trillion while debt servicing stood ...

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has fired back at critics who accused his team of hiring street urchins and dressing them as Christian clerics during Wednesday’s unveiling of his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima in Abuja.   In a statement through his campaign organization, Tinubu said the event was open to all, stressing ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has given Certificate of Return to Ademola Adeleke, winner of Saturday’s governorship election in Osun State.   Adeleke received his Certificate of Return at the INEC State Office in Osogbo on Wednesday, following PDP’s victory at the Osun governorship election on Saturday. The presentation comes nearly four days after he was declared winner of ...

As part of its talent cultivation strategy, Huawei Technologies (Nigeria) Limited is set to host a job fair for Nigerian youths. The job fair, scheduled to hold on the 3rd of August, 2022 at the International Conference Centre, Abuja is intended to attract, qualified candidates for job opportunities in IP technologies, Information Technologies, Channel management, Programming, Data Engineering, Account Management, ...