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Against the backdrop of unabated security challenge in the country, the Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has advocated for a long term strategic funding regime for the Nigerian Police and other security agencies through funds from the capital or Bond market in order to make them better equipped to confront the spate of violence in parts of the country. ...

Boko Haram (Western education is sin) yesterday claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack on the family house of Vice President Namadi Sambo in Tundun Wada, Zaria. The sect also said it was behind the explosions in Sokoto, also on Monday and the recent attacks in Bauchi, Bauchi State, Maiduguri, Borno State and Damaturu in Yobe State. The group warned Christians and ...

By Ihechukwu Njoku During his church service on Sunday 29th July, Nigerian Prophet T.B. Joshua described the late President of Ghana, Professor John Evans Atta Mills, as a martyr whose death would be a catalyst for unexplainable political unity within Ghana. Joshua dedicated his sermon, ‘The Highway To Heaven’ to Mill’s life and legacy. “You need not fear where you ...

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has withdrawn charges of alleged fraud in the fuel subsidy payments against Durosola Omogbenigun and Peter Mba along with their firms. Counsel for the EFCC, Mr. Oyedepo Rotimi, told a Lagos High Court in Igbosere on Tuesday that the charge tagged, ID/122C/2012, was mistakenly instituted against Omogbenigun, his company Integrated Resources Limited, like Mba and ...

NAN – The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order (ORO) on Tuesday said it killed two suspected terrorists, and intercepted rocket launchers, rocket bombs and AK 47 rifles being transported by suspected terrorists to Nigeria’s traumatised city of Maiduguri, capital of Borno state. The suspected terrorists accompanied the arms and were killed in Monguno Local Government Area (LGA) ...