The Nigeria Army, 7 Division on Friday in Maiduguri burnt over 2000 cartons of smoked fish and meat seized from Boko Haram insurgents.
According to Col Tukur Gusau, spokesman, 7 Division, Nigerian Army, Maiduguri, the fish which has an estimated market value of 50 million naira was seized from the insurgents at various locations in Borno State.
While supervising the burning of the fish at the outskirts of Maiduguri, Col Gusau said the products were stolen from fishermen and traders in the state. He noted that the militants usually sold the goods...
Saturday, 5 September 2015
The Department of State Services, DSS has announced the dismissal of 45 directors of the agency, including the immediate past spokesperson and Deputy Director, Ms Marylin Ogar.
Marylin Ogar was demoted and transferred to the north east two months ago following President Buhari's nullification of the promotion exercise done in the twilight of the Jonathan administration.
Her travails may not be unconnected with her perceived partisanship in the run up to the last general elections....
President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo have declared their assets to the public. While Buhari has less than N30,000,000.00 in his account, Osinbajo declared that he had N94m, $900,000 and £19,000 in his bank accounts at the time he was sworn into office.
The documents showed that President Buhari has seven houses, two of them mud houses. Two of the houses are in Kaduna, three in his native Daura and one each in Kano and Abuja. Of the three houses in Daura, two are mud houses, one inherited from his late sister and the other...
Thirteen inmates have escaped from the Sokoto Remand Home. The head of the remand center, Alhaji Dahiru Lawal told newsmen on Thursday that the inmates escape was due to the poor state of the facilities at the home.
Lawal said that in the last couple of years, many inmates have escaped from the juvenile prison.
He spoke in Sokoto while receiving gifts for the centre from an NGO, Housewives Development Initiative. He appealed to the Sokoto state government to carry out a comprehensive repair of the dilapidated infrastructure at the center which...
A 28 year-old Nigerian identified as Chukwudi has died in Malaysia after selling one of his kidneys.
News sources have it that the Nigerian businessman had sold his organ to a kidney patient for six million naira. In what has become a popular business for many young Nigerians in Malaysia, Chukwudi had decided to make some quick money by cashing in on the trend.
Although the recipient of Chukwudi's kidney had a successful transplant, the young Nigerian developed complications from which he died after the surgery.
A Malaysia based Nigerian...
Brekete Family Reality Show is to drill four boreholes at Internally Displaced Persons, IDP camps across the North East of Nigeria.
The pledge was made on Wednesday 26 August 2015 in Abuja, during an interactive radio program in which Brekete Family Show hosted Brig - Gen Rogers Nicholas, Chief of Army Civil and Military Affairs.
Big-Gen Nicholas called for the cooperation of civilians and corporate organizations in rebuilding the areas ravaged by warfare so that the IDPs could return to their normal lives. He said that a lot of amenities, worship...
Friday, 4 September 2015
The past few weeks have seen the police in Abuja doing brisk business arresting operators of unregistered cabs in the city.
To fight the rising wave of one chance crime in the city, the Inspector General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase had recently issued an order for the enforcement of the ban on the operations of unlicensed taxi cabs.
Following this directive, the police now routinely arrest those who use cars hitherto registered for private use for carrying passengers. They are usually made to part with huge sums of money before being let go....
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