July 31, 2018
PRESS STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE, HIS EXCELLENCY, DR. ABUBAKAR BUKOLA SARAKI, CON, ON July 31, 2018.
I wish to inform Nigerians that, after extensive consultations, I have decided to take my leave of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
This is not a decision that I have made lightly. If anything at all, I have tarried for so long and did all that was humanly possible, even in the face of great provocation,...
Tuesday, 31 July 2018
Sunday, 29 July 2018
Twenty suspected armed bandits have been arrested by troops of the Nigeria army along Keffi - Abuja road in Nassarawa State.
Abujacitynews learned that the suspects were on their way to Abuja for a supposed meeting of National Hunters Association when they were intercepted.
Items recovered from them included 17 locally made guns, 2 locally made pistols, 1 locally made knife, 3 cutlasses, 1 bow, 38 arrows and 135 cartridges.
The Director, Army Public...
Friday, 27 July 2018
Senator Dino Melaye has been released by the unknown men who abducted him on Thursday as he was on his way to Kogi State for a court hearing.
The lawmaker disclosed this himself in a twitter post on Friday morning.
Senator Dino Melaye
@dino_melaye
I thank God once again for escaping another dangerous attack. I also thank Nigerians for their prayers and show of Love. Spent 11 hours in the wilderness traumatized but God preserved me. God is the best...
Thursday, 26 July 2018
Senator Dino Melaye has reportedly been abducted by unknown gunmen.
Senator Ben Murray Bruce said in a tweet on Thursday that he was informed of the development by Dino's brother, Moses.
Ben Murray-Bruce
@benmurraybruce
I have just been informed by Moses Melaye,
@dino_melaye ’s brother, that Dino has been abducted by unknown persons in a Toyota Sienna that blocked their car and overpowered them on their way to Kogi to answer to Dino’s court case....
Tuesday, 24 July 2018
Inspector- General of Police, Ibrahim Idris on Tuesday, met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The meeting which was held behind closed doors started a few hours after security operatives began a siege on the Abuja homes of Senate President, Bukola Saraki and Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu.
The subject matter of the meeting was not disclosed to State House correspondents.
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Operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS and men of the Nigeria Police Force in the early hours of Tuesday laid siege to the Abuja homes of Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki and Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu .
The team which stormed the Apo Legislative Quarters home of Ekweremadu is said to include operatives of the EFCC.
See photos.
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Monday, 23 July 2018
POLICE INVITATION IS A MERE POLITICAL GAME - Saraki
Mon, 23rd Jul 2018
Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has stated that the invitation to him by the Police to report to a station in Guzape over the Offa robbery investigation is a mere afterthought which is designed to achieve political purpose.
Saraki in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, stated that he has it on good authority that the Police...
An attempt to celebrate the fourth anniversary of an attack on President Muhammadu Buhari’s convoy by his Personal Assistant , Bashir Ahmad has attracted angry remarks from Nigerians .
Ahmad had twitted a photo of the bullet ridden SUV in which the president was attacked while he was travelling as a presidential candidate four years ago.
The Nigerians who responded to the twit were particularly irked by President Buhari’s handling of rampant killings...
The immediate past Commissioner for Education in Katsina State, Prof. Halimatu Idris, was killed by unknown gunmen on Sunday evening along the Abuja-Kaduna highway.
Lamenting the loss on Sunday, Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State prayed Allah to forgive the slain professor her shortcomings and grant her family the fortitude to bear the loss.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education on Monday, officially announced the demise of the former commissioner.
In...
The management of Islamic Leadership Academy, Kuje, Abuja has named one of its girls' hostels after Barrister Firdausi Aljannah Amasa.
In 2017,the law graduate of the University of Illorin was disallowed from performing the call to bar ceremony by the Nigerian Law School for insisting on wearing her hijab during the occasion.
However, following the furore generated by the incident, the Nigerian Law School Body Of Benchers in 2018, approved the...
The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja police command has a new boss in the person of tough talking CP Bala Ciroma.
In a statement issued by the spokesman of the command, DSP Anjuguri Manza, CP Ciroma pledged to rid Abuja of criminals.
He called for the support of residents and other security outfits in the city in order to achieve the objective.
He said that residents could help the police with timely information through the following dedicated...
A fight between two friends over a hundred naira tip given to them for catching a fleeing cow has resulted in the death of one of them.
The unfortunate incident happened last Thursday at the cattle market in Abaji, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
According to eyewitness accounts, the two friends had helped a cattle dealer to catch a run away cow.
An argument over who should take the N100 tip given to them for their efforts by...
Thursday, 19 July 2018
Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and some state governors on Thursday, met at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
Governors sighted around President Buhari’s office where the meeting held are Aminu Masari of Katsina State, Zamfara State governor and Chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum, Abdulaziz Yari, Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State and Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State.
However, President Buhari left the...
The winner of the just concluded governorship election in Ekiti state, Dr. Kayode Fayemi on Thursday presented the certificate of return issued to him by the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, to President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The governor elect posed for a photograph with PMB during the presentation.
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday approved the appointment of three Directors -General /Chief Executive Officers of three agencies under the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development .
According to Bashir Ahmad, Personal Assistant to the President on New Media who disclosed the development on twitter, the new appointees are: Umar Albarka Hassan ( DG /CEO , National Steel Raw Materials Exploration Agency , Kaduna ); Prof. Linus Okon Asuquo (DG/CEO,...
Monday, 16 July 2018
Do you want to add a couple of millions to your bank account? Here's an opportunity for you. All you have to do is to find the killers of some policemen in Abuja and Edo State.
The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, is offering a N5 million reward to anyone with information on the killers of seven policemen at Galadimawa in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja on July 2 and the murder and burning of four officers in Edo State on July...
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
A rally and press briefing organised by the Peace Corps of Nigeria to mark its 20th anniversary was on Tuesday in Abuja, dispersed by heavily armed riot policemen.
The policemen fired tear gas canisters at the Peace Corps members and journalists causing them to scamper for safety.
The PCN people had gathered at their headquarters in Jabi after addressing a press conference at their former base in Gwarimpa when the police stormed the place.
See...
60 years old Alhaji Salisu Nuhu on Tuesday dragged his girlfriend of 4 years, Janet Baru to the Magajin Gari Sharia Court II in Kaduna for turning down his marriage proposal.
Nuhu who is already married told the court that Janet had professed her love and pledged to convert to Islam and marry him, only to turn him down after obtaining various sums of money from him.
“I have been dating Janet for four years now and each time I visit her, I normally...
Monday, 9 July 2018
Two armed robbery suspects were on Sunday, arrested by the Niger State police command in Wawa village in the Borgu Local Government Area of the state.
The duo of Jariri Chede, 25 and Janya Shehu, 20 had just robbed one Sunday Ishaya of N70,000 cash and a Tecno smartphone worth N73,000 when they were arrested by the police.
Other items they dispossessed the victim of were two cartons of dry gin worth N9,000 and a box of tobacco snuff worth...
Thursday, 5 July 2018
SECURITY ADVISORY
FCT ABUJA
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In view of yesterday's killing of seven police officers on their duty location by suspected gunmen around the Galadimawa area of FCT.
There is an increased deployment of security personnel within the city Centre and entry points into FCT.
members are advised to avoid night movements or late evening activities for now.
When stopped by security personnel should be calm and properly identify self...
The Senate on Thursday demanded investigations into the fatal shooting of a National Youth Service Corps member, Miss Linda Angela Igwetu by a police officer on Wednesday.
Abujacitynews gathered that the deceased was shot around 3am on Wednesday by a policeman identified as Benjamin around a checkpoint near Ceddi Plaza in the Central Business District of Abuja.
She was said to be returning from a hangout with friends when the tragic shooting occurred....
The authorities of the Polytechnic Academic Staff Secondary School, Birnin Kebbi, have dismissed five members of its teaching staff for impregnating an SSS3 student of the institution.
The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN reports that the impregnated student was also expelled on the recommendation of the committee which investigated the matter.
“The committee submitted report on Monday and recommended that all the five teachers should be dismissed from...
Sunday, 1 July 2018
*Please remember what these vital body organs are afraid of
*Kidneys: Afraid to stay up all night.
*Stomach: Afraid of cold food.
*Lungs: Afraid of smoke/smoking
*Liver: Afraid of fatty stuff.
*Heart: Afraid of salty food.
*Pancreas: Afraid of heavy eating.
*Intestines: Afraid of
eating seafood indiscriminately.
*Eyes: Afraid of
mobiles & computer screens.
*Gallbladder: Afraid of not eating breakfast.
Take good care of yourself!
Spares...
Properties valued at several millions of naira were on Saturday evening destroyed in a fire outbreak at a cooking gas market in Kaduna North LGA.
An eyewitness said that the incident which happened at Abeokuta Street was caused by a spark from an electric cooker.
He explained that a shop owner in the market was testing a gas cooker while a gas cylinder was being refilled .
Although the fire destroyed about 10 shops, the intervention of men of the...
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