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Nigeria has unveiled the state-of-the-art surveillance system, Falcon Eye for maritime security that will save the country several billions of US dollars, while effectively degrading piracy and other crimes around the Gulf of Guinea and beyond. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), who represented President Buhari at the commissioning of the facility, said on Tuesday. The surveillance facility incorporates various sensors …

The Former Governor of Imo State and the Senator representing Imo West Senatorial District, Rochas Okorocha, yesterday dismissed the report that he has joined the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Okorocha spoke in a statement to newsmen in Owerri through his Special Adviser on Media, Sam Onwuemedo, saying that the report of defection was to blackmail him out of his party, …

The Middle Belt Forum,MBF, has raised alarm over the massive destruction of over 45 farmlands by suspected Fulani herdsmen across some communities in Plateau State. The MBF, which raised the concerns in a statement by Dr. Isuwa Sogo, its National Publicity Secretary, Tuesday in Abuja , lamented that cutting down of food crops with cutlasses and matchetes was deliberate efforts …

Human Rights activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, Tuesday, said that every attempt by President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to take the country back to 1984 era will largely be resisted by Nigerians. Falana who disclosed this at the 13th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series to commemorate his 87th birthday, said that the treatment meted out to Nnamdi …

The Senate on Tuesday passed a bill seeking to establish the Electoral Offences Commission and okayed 20-year jail term for candidates caught snatching ballot materials. The passage of the bill followed the consideration of a report by the Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission. Chairman of the Committee, Senator Kabiru Gaya (APC, Kano South), in his presentation, said the bill …

The All Progressives Congress has denied the suspension of former Imo State Governor Senator Rochas Okorocha. The party made this known in a statement by its Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, John James Akpanudoedehe, titled, ‘APC Alerts on fake letter of Senator Rochas Okorocha ‘Suspension’. According to Akpanudoehede the letter in circulation claiming that Okorocha has been suspended was forged. The …

The Senate on Tuesday said the nomination of Lauretta Onochie, an aide to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was rejected because of her partisanship and breach of federal character principle. Onochie’s nomination had attracted condemnation from a large section of Nigerians who argue that she is too partisan to be an INEC commissioner. In a statement titled, ‘Senate …

Barely some hours after bandits demanded N200 million ransom to release the Chief of Kajuru in Kaduna state, Alhaji Alhassan Adamu and his relations who were abducted last weekend, the chief has been released  Monday evening but his relations were still in captivity. “He was released at about 5 pm, after spending a night in the custody of the bandits. …

The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, on Monday, welcomed the formation of the legal team by the apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohaneze Ndigbo, to monitor the trial of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. Malami, in a statement that was signed by his media aide, Umar Gwandu, maintained …

A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, fixed July 16 to hear a suit challenging the defection of Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Justice Inyang Ekwo fixed the date after listening to the ex-parte motion of the plaintiffs’ counsel, Kanu Agabi, SAN, praying the court for an order to serve the 1st and 2nd …