Nigeria’s security agencies have arrested seven suspected commanders of Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) at Katsina Airport after they returned from the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The Federal Government described the operation as a major success made possible by Nigeria’s newly integratedContinue Reading
Danladi Ahmed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed Abdulrazak Sa’ad Namdas as the new Director General of the Border Communities Development Agency (BCDA). Dr Namdas replaces Dr Dakorinama Alabo George, who resigned to contest for an elective post in his home state, Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the PresidentContinue Reading
A frontline political analyst, Mahmud Jega, has advised President Bola Tinubu to come out openly to condemn the attitude of some judges towards opposition political parties and against Nigeria’s democracy. Jega warned that Nigeria’s democracy is at risk if opposition parties are prevented from contesting the 2027 general elections.Continue Reading
THE FEUD BETWEEN LATE GEN. SANI ABACHA AND LATE ALHAJI QUASIM YAYI AKOREDE By SOMI AJAYI Late Alhaji Quasim Alaba Alawiye Yayi Akorede was the Chief Imam of Akure from 1979 to December, 2006. 1998. The “phantom coup” of December 1997 had just happened, and Gen. Oladipo Diya,Continue Reading
*By Adaobi Obiabunmuo In Nigeria, there are almost daily reports of schoolchildren’s abductions, banditry, gruesome murder of captives (including senior military officers serving and retired), and other forms of terror attacks. The persistence of this pathology should inspire a renewed search for solutions to the insecurity crisis. The countryContinue Reading
By Dianabasi Effiong Uyo (FLOWERBUDNEWS): The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) says it seized a tanker with a capacity of 45, 000 litres of product suspected to be acquired illegally ethanol. The Commandant, NSCDC, Akwa Ibom Command, Mrs Geraldine Abetianbe, made this known while briefing some journalistsContinue Reading
The Federal High Court in Abuja has convicted and sentenced a Boko Haram member, Alkali Yarima, also known as La’ari, to death by hanging for participating in the attacks on Maiduguri in Borno in 2015. Justice James Omotosho, in a judgment, also sentenced Yarima to a life imprisonment inContinue Reading
A delegation of the Federal Government has visited the site of the ongoing construction of a $400 million rare earth processing plant under construction in the Uke community of Nasarawa State to assess the level of compliance with relevant regulations and standards. The facility being developed by an indigenousContinue Reading
By Dianabasi Effiong Maj.-Gen. Abdulmalik Jibril (rtd), Secretary to the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB), has assured that merit and competence will prevail in the ongoing nationwide recruitment into the service. Jibril said this in an interview with journalists in Uyo on the sidelines of theContinue Reading
