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Benin City, Nigeria – Newly reassigned Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) to Zone 5, Mr. Alkali Baba Usman has pledged to reposition the zone for efficient policing. AIG Usman who assumed duty in Zone on Thursday, October 4, 2018 stated this during a chat with our reporter in his office at the Zone 5′ headquarters, Adesuwa road, GRA, Benin City, …

The drab Nigerian political environment has lightened up. The expected ‘unexpected’ happened. Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President of Nigeria was elected at the PDP primaries held in Port Harcourt recently. It looked like this was never going to happen. Not just that this was the fifth and to my mind the final attempt of Atiku to become presidential candidate, but …

• I never received money from Dasuki – Fayose. The immediate past Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, finally honoured an invitation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday after losing his immunity from prosecution and arrest. After leading Fayose to the interrogation room, it was learnt that he was asked to write a statement explaining how he …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said that Tech-based solutions hold the key to poverty eradication, faulting the age-old poverty reduction strategies adopted by some development experts and political leaders which, according to him failed to prioritize and integrate modern technology. Obaseki made the submission on the occasion of the commemoration of International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, …

Benin City, Nigeria – Seventy two armed robbery, cultism and kidnapping suspects, who have been allegedly terrorizing the Benin metropolis over the past few weeks have been nabbed, and were paraded by Edo State Police Command today (Tuesday). Among them were 58 cult members linked to the killings of eight persons in different locations in the state, according the state …

Dr. Kayode Fayemi has been sworn-in as the governor of Ekiti State. Fayemi, who won the July 14 governorship election held in the state on the platform of All Progressives Congress was sworn-in on Tuesday in Ado-Ekiti. He defeated the then Deputy Governor of the state and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Professor Kolapo Olusola, and other candidates to …

A mild drama ensued outside the Tunde Idiagbon House, former head office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission when operatives of the EFCC attempted to bar a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, from accompanying former Governor Ayodele Fayose into the premises. Fani-Kayode, who obtained an LL.B from the School of Oriental and African Studies and a Masters …

The immediate past Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has arrived at the Abuja office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Fayose entered into the EFCC office in Wuse 2 in the company of Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode. Fayose, who wore a customised T-shirt emblazoned with “EFCC I’m Here” over …

The Senate has approved a total sum of N53bn ‎for the Office of the National Security Adviser and security agencies to supervise the 2019 general elections. Other beneficiaries are the Department of State Services, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, Nigeria Police Force, and the Nigerian Immigration Service. The approval followed the recommendations by the Senate Committee on Appropriations, whose …

Senate President, Bukola Saraki, was on Tuesday named the Director-General of the Atiku Presidential Campaign Council by the Peoples Democratic Party. PDP’s chairman, Uche Secondus, shared the news on his Twitter handle, @uchesecondus. He shared a list of party members, who have been picked to be part of the campaign team of the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. He said, …