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The Senate yesterday raised the alarm over the worsening state of insecurity in the country, saying state police remained one of the solutions to the problem. It also spoke of summoning the service chiefs to speak on how the present state of insecurity in the country could be tackled, and demanded special military operations against banditry, kidnapping and other violent crimes, …

Kalu Kalu, one of the lawyers to Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, says the legal battle in the United States has revealed sufficient discoveries to upturn the ruling of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal at the Supreme Court. Mr Kalu, during the press briefing held by Atiku on Thursdays in Abuja, said the legal team discovered …

Atiku Abubakar has called on Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP)’s Rabiu Kwankwaso to join his quest for “justice” in the certificate saga involving President Bola Tinubu. While the school had released the certificate to Atiku’s team, the former vice president who is challenging Tinubu’s election, called on Obi, Kwankwaso, and other …

A Magistrate Court in Yaba, Lagos State, ordered on Wednesday that Azeez Fashola, aka Naira Marley, Samson Balogun Eletu, alias Sam Larry and two others should be remanded over the death of Afrobeats musician Ilerioluwa Oladimeji Aloba, known as Mohbad. The Court wants Naira Marley and Sam Larry to remain in police custody for 21 days alongside Ogedengbe Fisayo and …

**Selling and Conversion of Army Properties worth N74million. A Special Court Martial set up by the Nigerian Army has found the former Group Managing Director and Executive Vice Chairman of Nigerian Army Properties Limited, Major General Umar Muazu Mohammed guilty of 14 of 18 count charges which are all contrary to service laws. The charges include stealing, forgery, conspiracy, Theft, …

The Edo State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress has cautioned its officials against endorsing governorship aspirants ahead of next year’s election, warning that anyone who flouts the directive would be sanctioned. The state APC deputy chairman, Jaret Tenebe, gave the warning in Benin, the state capital when the party executives received a governorship aspirant, Hon. Ehiozuwa Agbonayinma at the …

The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed that Owodunni Ibrahim Oluwatosin aka Primeboy, who was declared wanted on Wednesday, has turned himself in. The command’s spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, made this known in a post on his X handle. The PUNCH reports that the command had declared Primeboy wanted following his failure to honour the police invitation successfully sent to him since the commencement of …

Lawmakers and aides arrived for work on Wednesday to find a House of Representatives stuck in freeze-frame, a giant blue screen declaring them “in recess” almost the entire day. The House calendar remained officially stuck on October 3 – Tuesday – the date when House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted and left the chamber without adjourning. The interim speaker eventually …

A minister from Kaduna State, Balarabe Abbas, who slumped during the ministerial screening on Wednesday, has said his collapse at the Senate was as a result of exhaustion. Abbas was one of three new ministerial nominees screened on the floor of the Senate. On Tuesday, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in a letter written to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, sought confirmation of …

States were split yesterday over the agreement the Federal Government reached with the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress, TUC, on Monday night to pay N35,000 wage award to federal workers to cushion the effect of petrol subsidy removal. While some of the states said they would align with the Federal Government’s N35,000 wage award for its workers, …