A former Accounts and Finance Director in the Nigerian Airforce, Salisu Abdullahi has told a Federal High Court in Abuja how he rejected a monthly largesse of N120m allocated to his office and turned same over to then Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh for 39 months.
Testifying as a prosecution witness for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, , Abdullahi told the court that the monthly salary for the Airforce at the...
Wednesday, 16 March 2016
The government of Kaduna State on Wednesday met with the state branch of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN behind closed doors at the Government House
The meeting was to seek the support of CAN for the government-sponsored bill that seeks to regulate religious preaching in the state.
The government was represented at the meeting which lasted for about 40 minutes by the Deputy Governor, Mr Barnabas Bala
Kaduna State CAN Chairman, Bishop...
The National Industrial Court, NIC on Wednesday held a valedictory session in honor of the fallen Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Barrister James Ocholi who died with his wife and son in an accident along the Abuja-Kaduna highway on Sunday, March 6, 2016.
The late Ocholis will be buried in their home town in Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State on March 18.
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A Senior Magistrates Court in Malumfashi, Katsina State on Wednesday, sentenced six elderly men to 20 strokes of the cane each for constituting public nuisance in their drunken state.
The convicts Nomau Akwai, Yusuf Bature, Salisu Abdullahi, Sani Rabi’u, Sa’idu Abdullahi and Musa Yusuf, are all residents of Malumfashi Local Government Area.
The prosecuting police officer, Cpl. Joseph George told the court that the convicts were arrested by a police...
The Nigerian Army has confirmed that 22 persons lost their lives while 18 others sustained various degrees of injuries in two separate attacks carried out by female suicide bombers on the outskirts of Maiduguri on Wednesday morning.
It said that troops have been mobilized to the crime scenes to evacuate the dead and the injured.
Here is a press release issued by the Army on the attacks.
PERSON-BORNE IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICE ATTACK IN UMMARARI
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President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned Wednesday's early morning bombing in a Maiduguri mosque.
Buhari in a Twitter message expressed dismay at the wanton attack on innocent worshippers.
He also sympathized with the government and people of Borno State who lost their loved ones in the bomb attack.
President Buhari@NGRPresident27m"I am dismayed by the news of a bomb attack on innocent worshippers in a mosque in Maiduguri this morning." ~ President@MBuhariView...
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