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Sowore expressed shock over the severity of the charges, describing them as a deliberate ploy to suppress dissent and block the officers from accessing fair justice. The Deputy Inspector-General (DIG) of Police in charge of the Force Intelligence Department (FID), Abuja, Benjamin Nebolisa Okolo, has disclosed that seven police officers recently arrested and detained for raising concerns about police pensions …

•LGs yet to open CBN accounts. •Labour blames govs, AGF for delay. •Falana, SANs accuse govs, FG Exactly one year after the Supreme Court granted full autonomy to the 774 local government areas, the Federal Government has continued to channel allocations through state governments. An analysis by The PUNCH shows that state governors retained control of council allocations totalling N4.5tn, …

Nigeria won’t cave in to pressure from the Donald Trump administration to accept Venezuelan deportees from the United States, the country’s Foreign Affairs Minister Yusuf Tuggar has said. Tuggar, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Thursday, said Nigeria has enough challenges of its own and won’t be a dumping ground for Venezuelan prisoners deported from …

The African Democratic Congress has affirmed that it has no intention of undermining Nigeria’s democracy, clarifying that its mission is to wrest power from the ruling All Progressives Congress democratically. Interim National Publicity Secretary of ADC, Bolaji Abdullahi, stated this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. Abdullahi was reacting to a tweet by the Special Adviser to the President …

Egbetokun arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos from an undisclosed foreign trip and immediately departed for Abuja on Thursday evening. Inspector-General of Police Kayode Egbetokun, whose continued stay in office has been a subject of growing controversy, returned to Nigeria on Thursday amid rising tension over a looming nationwide strike by police officers. Egbetokun arrived at the …

The president of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has said that Nigeria’s state-owned refineries, located in Port Harcourt, Warri, and Kaduna, may never operate properly again despite about $18 billion invested in their rehabilitation. Alhaji Dangote disclosed this while hosting members of the Global CEO Africa, who visited the Dangote Petroleum Refinery yesterday. He said the 650,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery …

It is alarming that cases of examination malpractice in primary and secondary schools in the country have been on the rise. Even more distressing is the fact that parents and school authorities are now involved. ADEREMI OGUNDARE examines the situation and what can be done to stem the tide. A few weeks ago, there was a reported incident where a …

Israel believes that Iran could potentially retrieve enriched uranium buried beneath one of the three facilities struck by US forces last month, according to a senior Israeli official. Isfahan was one of three Iranian nuclear facilities struck by US aircraft and missiles on 22 June Speaking to US reporters, the official said that reaching the enriched uranium at Isfahan would …

CNN — President Donald Trump seems to have learned the lesson painfully gleaned by all his 21st-century predecessors: You can’t reset US relations with Vladimir Putin. Trump’s path from idolizing the Russian leader to berating him has been a melodrama of personalized geopolitics. But what happens next is far more important. The president’s epiphany offers new possibilities for Ukraine, Putin’s critics in Congress and America’s browbeaten …

The ruling All Progressives Congress APC has welcomed Thursday’s judgement of the Supreme Court affirming Senator Monday Okpebholo as the duly elected Governor of Edo state in the 2024 governorship election. Party spokesman, Felix Morka in a statement said the APC congratulates Governor Okpebholo on this historic victory and thanked its teeming members, supporters and the people of Edo state …