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A new prison facility built by Imo State Government along Port Harcourt Road, Owerri, to accommodate no fewer than 3,000 inmates, will soon be ready for occupation. The new facility, which will replace the old one with a carrying capacity of about 500, was built in Owerri, by the colonial masters in 1904. Speaking, when he played host to the …

ABUJA- President Muhammadu Buhari will dissolve his cabinet five days to the end of the administration, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed, has said. The Minister stated this while briefing journalists at the end of the weekly Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting presided over by the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo at the Council Chamber Presidential Villa, …

… threatens to file for contempt against  INEC chairman The Atiku-Obi legal team has condemned the refusal of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to produce polling documents from the February the 23rd, 2019 presidential elections even after the Court of Appeal granted an order directing the commission to allow them access. A member of the team, Mr Silas Onu, in …

The Senate has invited the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, for a briefing over the spate of kidnappings across Nigeria. The lawmakers said the invitation is to help profer lasting solution to the menace. The IGP’s invitation is one of the many resolutions made after a deliberation on a motion on the “senseless killing of a Briton and the …

By Jethro Ibileke Suspected​ killers of four police officers, including a pregnant woman at the Afuze Police Station in Owan East local government area of Edo State, were Wednesday paraded by the police in Benin. The suspects, numbering six, were alleged to have killed the officers, set the station ablaze and set free their colleagues who were arrested for armed …

By MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Benin City, Nigeria – Twenty-six-year-old man arrested for alleged child theft has confessed to have made over N.7million, selling stolen babies in Benin, Lagos, Enugu and Port-Harcourt. The suspect who identified himself as Kenneth Ofoke from Ohrza village in Izzza local government area of Ebonyi State was among other suspected criminals paraded by the commissioner of police …

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has decried the high rate of foreign medical trips by Nigerians, calling for a total overhaul of the health sector to allow efficiency. Speaking at a public hearing organised by the House Committee on Health on two bills at the National Assembly in Abuja on Wednesday, Dogara stated that the attendant …

Following the killing of 10 Boys Brigade members with a car by a Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps officer, Adamu Abdullahi, in Gombe State on Monday, the Corps Commandant-General, Abdullahi Muhammadu, has ordered a psychological test for all NSCDC personnel nationwide. The CG said he had also directed the forensic psychology unit of the Corps to work out the …

The Court of Appeal on Wednesday in Abuja reserved judgment in the appeal filed by the Governor of Osun State, Gboyega Oyetola, challenging the declaration of Ademola Adeleke as the duly elected governor by the state election petition tribunal. The appellate court also reserved judgment in the two other appeals filed by Mr Oyetola’s All Progressive Congress (APC) and the …

The 2019 budget will be passed on Tuesday, April 30, Senate President, Bukola Saraki has announced. Mr Saraki announced this on Wednesday. Consideration of the report by the Committee on Appropriations was slated on the order paper for Wednesday but the Senate could not consider the item. Mr Saraki explained that the need for all lawmakers to be fortified with …