Gunmen on Wednesday morning attacked the Police station at Bangi town in Bangi local government area of Niger state, releasing 10 armed robbery suspects in the process. The gunmen stormed the Police station in motorcycles and then engaged the Police in a gun battle.In the process they released all the inmates of the prison and drove away with 10 armed robbery suspects who had been arrested on Tuesday. Confi ...

Former petroleum minister, Shettima Ali Monguno, who was kidnapped on Friday, has been released. The 92-year old elder states man was released by his abductors at midday on Monday. Mr Monguno urged sympathisers who had come to welcome him at his residence in Maiduguri not to cry. “They did not kill me, so don’t cry” he stated solemnly. The Governor of Borno state, Mr Kashim Shettima, also  appealed to the c ...

A Federal High Court in Dutse, the Jigawa state capital, on Friday issued a warrant directing the Inspector General of Police or officers of the Nigerian Police Force and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to arrest Saminu Turaki, former governor of Jigawa state and bring him before the court. Justice Yahuza gave the order after Mr Turaki failed to appear before the court. The EFCC had earl ...

The recent warning to residents of Borno by the Joint Task Force (JTF) that the members of the Boko Haram sect now see kidnapping as more lucrative, is playing out already, as 92-year old elder statesmen; Shettima Ali Munguno has been kidnapped from  a mosque in Maiduguri, north east of Nigeria. The former Minister of Mines and Power and also Petroleum Minister was abducted by gunmen as he left the mosque a ...

Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has criticized calls for the federal government to set up a commission to tackle pipeline vandalization, saying it will just be another means for corruption which he called 'chop-chop' (embezzlement). Speaking at a church service for the 50th birthday of Dr Obigaeli Ezekwesili, in Abuja, President Obasanjo said there are enough government agencies to tackle the problem of ...

The expected hearing of the appeal instituted by Major Hamza Al-mustapha, the Chief Security Officer (CSO) to the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, against the death appeal was on Monday stalled at the Court of Appeal in Lagos. Major Hamza Al-Mustapha and Alhaji Lateef Shofolahan, an aide to the widely acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, late Chief Moshood Abiola, are appeali ...

At least five persons lost their lives on Sunday night in Ringim Local Council of Jigawa State in attacks launched by unknown gunmen, which targeted the Unity Bank and the residence of former Inspector General of Police Hafiz Abubakar Ringim. The attackers, who stormed the town in a Volkswagen Golf car, launched the first salvo on the Unity Bank along Kano/Hadejia Road where the two security men manning the ...

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has grounded the plane of River state governor; Mr Rotimi Amaechi, for the expiration of its operating license.  The plane which was on Friday temporarily grounded in Akure, the Ondo state capital by NCAA for the inability of the pilot to provide the manifest of the plane, has now been suspended from flying again. The Acting Director General of NCAA, Joyce Nkemak ...

The Federal Government is set to borrow about $9 billion from various multinational organizations to boost the development of infrastructure across the country between 2012-2014. This was one of the outcomes of the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting chaired by Vice President Namadi Sambo and attended by many state governors and ministers. The minister of National Planning, Shamsudeen Usman said that su ...

President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the reconstitution of the Governing Board of National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) with himself as the chairman. This was announced on Thursday in a statement signed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Anyim Pius Anyim. Mr Anyim explained that in line with the Enabling Act for the Agency, the President is the Chai ...