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Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has raised alarm over an alleged plot to kill incarcerated leader of the group,  Nnamdi Kanu in prison.

(Nigeria) Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Monday expressed shock and sadness over the demise of a foremost nationalist and prominent lawyer, Dr Tunji Braithwaite.

(Nigeria) The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ekiti state on Monday said Governor Ayo Fayose’s conducts were threats to national security.

(Nigeria) The Lagos State Chapter of the People's Democratic Party, PDP, has commiserated with the family of Dr Tunji Braithwaite, who died in a Lagos hospital on Monday at the age of 82.

(Nigeria) The Senate on Monday summoned the Minister of State for Petroleum, Mr Ibe Kachikwu, to appear before its Committee on Petroleum Downstream on Tuesday, over lingering fuel scarcity in the country.

(Nigeria) Govrnor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State on Monday described former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, as a pillar in Yorubaland and Nigeria as a whole.

(Nigeria) The Akwa Ibom Government is to demolish one illegal filling station being constructed along Oron road in Nyong Essien area of Uyo local government area of the state.

(Nigeria) Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike has said that  his principal interest was to create a peaceful  environment  for the development  of the state,  adding that  despite  all the contrived distractions,  his administration  has recorded superlative achievements.

(Nigeria) A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has insisted on enforcement of its judgment, ordering the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to publish widely the spending of recovered stolen funds since return of democracy in 1999.

(Nigeria) An  oil monitoring group, the Niger Delta Indigenous Movement For Radical Change, NDIMRC, has lambasted the former governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Tinubu over his attacks on the Delta State- born  Petroleum Resources Minister, Dr Emmanuel Kachikwu as a result of the fuel crisis in the country, alleging that he was out to blackmail the Minister over oil blocs.

Jimoh Ibrahim, Publisher of Newswatch Times Limited (Nigeria) A former staff of Newswatch, Mr Iwuchukwu Iheanacho, has dragged Newswatch Times Limited (formerly known as Newswatch Newspapers Limited) before the National Industrial Court of Nigeria sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, over the failure of the media outfit, owned by Jimoh Ibrahim, to pay his seven months’ salary.

(Nigeria) President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the national leader of the All Progressives Congress,  APC, Asiwaju Bola  Tinubu, as he clocks 64 years on March 29.

(Nigeria) The Nigerian Army authority has raised reward for anyone with useful information that could lead to the rescue of its abducted officer, Colonel Samaila Inusa to N1 million.

Senator Remi Tinubu, representing Lagos Central, has urged Nigerians to bear each other's burdens on Easter.

(Nigeria) Globacom has charged Nigerians to hope for a brighter future as they celebrate this year’s feast of Easter.

(Nigeria) The Nigerian Defence Headquarters, has said that it would continue to fight in order to consolidate the successes recorded so far against Boko Haram terrorists,  assuring Nigerians that no inch of the Nigerian territory would be allowed to be bastardized by any force of darkness again.

(Nigeria) Eight babies are currently living in Kirikiri Female Prisons, Lagos, with their mothers, while nine inmates are pregnant, an official said on Thursday.

Syrian army units, in cooperation with popular defense groups, have advanced further in the vicinity if the ancient city of Tdmur (Palmyra), a United Nation Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO world Heritage site, in the central Homs province.

Security forces in Somalia's northern state of Puntland, have arrested 156 suspected Al-Shabaab members in a swoop in the coastal town of Bosasso, police report said on Thursday.

(Nigeria) The Bayelsa State Government on Thursday confirmed that it had received N1.24 billion from the Federal Government as bailout fund.

(Nigeria) President Muhammadu Buhari has apologised for dissolving governing councils of universities along with the boards of parastatal agencies.

(Nigeria)Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, arrested one Dada Olatunji, a former Assistant Comptroller General of the Nigeria Fire Service for offences bordering on employment scam.

(Nigeria) President Muhammadu Buhari has accused ex- militants of the Niger Delta of  sending some conflicting messages, saying “Some have said they are ready to drop their arms and join the rest of the nation to build it, bBut part of them are still sabotaging installations which is making investments in that lucrative area of Nigeria difficult because nobody will submit his riches to financial institutions, get money only to suffer huge loss.”

(Nigeria) National Chairman, All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has condemned the violence that characterised the Rivers State rerun elections, saying that it was a disgrace.

(Nigeria) Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has urged  Christian faithful to imbibe the virtues of peace, love, sacrifice and forgiveness which are the lessons of Easter.

(Nigeria) Massive queues have resurfaced in filling stations in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, after few days of relief.

(Nigeria) The National Universities Commission, NUC, has approved the Edo University, Iyamho as the 41st state University and 142nd University in Nigeria.

(Nigeria) A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Thursday,  directed that the National Assembly to be “put on notice” in the suit seeking to restrain both the Senate and House of Representatives from passing the Frivolous Petitions (Prohibition, Etc) Bill, otherwise known as the Anti-Social Media Bill.

(Nigeria) The  Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, sitting in Abuja on Thursday, refused to quash the 13-count charge preferred against the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki by the Federal Government.

(Nigeria)  The Nigeria military is subjecting a purported new video from leader of the Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau to forensic examinations in order to ascertain its authenticity.

(Nigeria) The National Environmental Standards Regulations Enforcement Agency, NESREA, on Thursday expressed concerns over the non-compliance of the agency’s rules and regulations guiding the citing of base stations by telecom operators.

(Nigeria) By Fegalo Nsuke The Nigerian government has not hidden its penchant for the Ogoni oil. In alliance with The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited, an affiliate of Shell International, the government has in the past deployed very brutish and repressive techniques to force the Ogoni people to submission and gain access to the oilfields it abandoned some 20 years ago. The Ogoni struggle is without doubt, one of the biggest challenges the Nigerian government has faced outside the civil war which broke out between 1967 and 1970. More than twenty years later, the government is still grappling with an approach to resolve the problem. In 1994, in an effort to break the Ogoni resistance, the government laid false accusations against some Ogoni leaders. Ordered their hanging on November 10, 1995 and began a series of manoeuvre to resume oil production in the area. Both Shell and the government had disagreed with every claim of environmental pollution of O

(Nigeria) The Inspector-General of Police, IG, Mr Solomon Arase, has visited Agatu in  Benue State, following the recent killing in nine natives in the area by marauding Fulani  herdsmen.

(Nigeria) The Police in Benin on Thursday arraigned one Praise Nwaobi at an Evbouriaria Magistrates' Court for allegedly having unlawfully carnal knowledge of a five-year-old girl.

(Nigeria) A petty trader, Mrs Mojisola Oyelola, on Wednesday narrated at a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, how her 13-year-old niece was defiled by a 32-year-old welder, Adewunmi Adetuyi.

(Nigeria) The Taraba State Police Command, has confirmed the arrest of two wanted Boko Haram commanders in the state.

(Nigeria) The Rivers State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described as unfortunate and disappointing, calls by candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for Rivers South-East senatorial district, Mr. Magnus Abe, to APC members to kill and conduct themselves violently, saying it was irresponsible, unwarranted and condemnable.

(Nigeria) The grinding conflict between the Nigerian state and Boko Haram insurgents has exacted a devastating human and economic toll over the past six years.

(Nigeria) The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has denied allegations that it accused Justice Abdul Kafarati of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja of being bribed in the fundamental human rights enforcement case brought before him by Senate President, Bukola Saraki.

(Nigeria) An Abuja High Court judge, Justice Peter Affen has berated the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for allegedly intimidating his court and attempting to stall a case involving it and an Austrian Security contractor, Mr. Wolfgang Reinl, who sued the anti-graft agency for N2billion for allegedly detaining him since last year without trial.

(Nigeria) Rivers  State  Governor,  Nyesom Wike has stated  that  some of the security  agencies  deviated from decisions reached during the State Security Council on the deployment of personnel to security  flaspoints to secure lives and property  in the course of  the  rerun elections.

(Nigeria) Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has set up a Judicial Commission of Inquiry to  investigate the  violence  and killings  that occurred during  the March 19, rerun legislative elections in the state.

Colonel Nicholas Ashinze with mother, brothers and his children after he arrived home. (Nigeria) The Federal Government has released Colonel Nicholas Ashinze, the former Military Assistant to former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col Sambo Dasuki (retd) at 2p.m., on Wednesday.

(Nigeria) A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Wednesday, adjourned till April 18, 2016 for continuation of trial of former Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA boss, Patrick Akpobolokemi and five others, charged with N2.6 billion theft.

(Nigeria) Chief Inegite Jonathan,72, uncle and foster father to former President Goodluck Jonathan, who was abducted by gunmen on Feb. 17, has narrated his ordeal to the former President.

Director General of NIMASA, Dr. Dakuku Peterside receiving the handover notes from the former acting Director General, Mr. Haruna Jauro at the headquarters of the agency in Lagos. (Nigeria) The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr. Dakuku Peterside has reiterated the agency’s commitment to ensuring that Nigeria becomes the hub of maritime activities in Africa, thereby making it a reference point in the continent.

(Nigeria) The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Sen. Udoma Udo-Udoma has commended the National Assembly for passing the 2016 budget.

(Nigeria) President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday night met with the expanded national caucus of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to discuss issues concerning the party and the state of the nation’s economy.

(Nigeria) Members of Ekiti State House of Assembly have demanded an unreserved apology from the Department of State Services, DSS, over the March 4, 2016 invasion of the House of Assembly and unlawful detention of a member of the House, representing Efon Constituency,  Mr Afolabi Akanni for 18 days, threatening to seek redress and damages in court.

(Nigeria) A middle-aged woman, Modinat Opeloye, on Wednesday, cried before a Grade A Customary Court, Enuwa, Ile-Ife, Oyo State to save her from being beaten to death by her husband, Ismael.