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(Nigeria) Igbo Women Assembly, IWA, has opposed any move to create grazing areas or ranches for Fulani herdsmen in the South East, noting that doing so, was a tacit approval to the herdsmen to kill Igbo well as rape their wives and daughters.

(Nigeria) The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ekiti State has described as fraudulent all the projects listed by Governor Ayodele Fayose for commissioning on Friday.

(Nigeria) A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday adjourned for continuation of cross examination of Publicity Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh’s witnesses till May 17.

(Nigeria) A mid-night fire on Tuesday gutted the famous Kurmi market in Kano metropolis, destroying property worth millions of Naira.

(Nigeria) The suit against embattled Senate President, Bukola Saraki and his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, challenging their election as principal officers of the Senate has again being adjourned to June 1.

(Nigeria) A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Wednesday, adjourned till May 12 for the trial of Managing Director of the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, Ibrahim Abdulsalam, charged with stealing the agency’s money amounting to N6.8 billion.

(Nigeria) Security and response agencies in the country have been tasked on the need to be credible in their dealings with the media if the public must continue to repose confidence in those who are paid to protect them.

From Right: Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike receiving health documents  from the  WHO Representative in Nigeria, Dr Rui Gama Vas at the Government House, Port Harcourt on Wednesday. (Nigeria) Rivers State governor, Mr Nyesom Wike has declared that the state government will develop  and equip primary  healthcare facilities  across the  state  to create access to qualitative  healthcare to more people.

(Nigeria) Justice Ibrahim Buba of Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on Tuesday, convicted 20 persons for illegal dealing and storage of petroleum products. The convicts are Captain Daniel Lebile, Ala Ibanibo, Wole Ajayi, Adesunloye Fani-Kayode, Michael Mgbanwa, Segun Ekundemi, Johnson Mashebinu, Ndidi Benjamin, Bright Nwaezuoke, Blessing Omoviye and Kayode Ireti. Others Chuks Isiwepkweni,  Friday Nchikpa, Peter Bayo, Ubom Amos, Zuopamo Embiowei, Olabamerun Owolemi, Adams Husseini, Ebisingha Timmy and Godwin Oputeh, MV Long Island and their companies Afa Global Impex Services Limited and GFL Marine Service Limited. One of the charges read, “that you, MV Long Island , AFA Global Impex Services Limited, GFL Marine Services Limited, Ala Atubokiki Ibanibo, Wole Ajayi, Adesunloye Alexander, Fani Kayode, Captain Daniel Lebile, Micheal Mgbanwa, Segun Ekundemi, Joghnson Mashebinu, Ndidi Benjamin, Bright Nwaezuoke, Blessing Omoviye, Kayode Biboye Ireti, Chuks Isiwepkweni, Frid

Justice M.T.M. Aliyu of the Kaduna State High Court sitting in Kaduna, on Tuesday, convicted and sentenced one  Bitrus  Mallam, a former cashier with the Kaduna State Local Government Pension Board , to 12 months imprisonment on  a one-count charge bordering on theft to the tune of N8,658, brought against him by the  Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The charge reads:  ‘‘That you Birtrus A. Mallam, being the former cashier in the Kaduna State Local Government  Pension Board, sometime in 2000 in Kaduna, in the Kaduna Judicial  Division of the High Court did commit theft by dishonestly  taking the sum of  N8,658,359, the property of Kaduna State Local Government Pension Board without her consent and thereby committed and offence contrary to  Section  286 and  punishable under Section 289 of the Penal Code Laws of Kaduna State.’’  However, the convict, who is currently the Head of Idon in Adara Chiefdom, Kaduna State, pleaded not guilty to the charge, thus leading to

(Nigeria) A former Senior Special Assistant on Media to Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, has been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

(Nigeria) Delta State Governor, Senator  Ifeanyi Okowa has inaugurated the Delta State Traffic Management Agency, DESTMA, with a charge to improve traffic compliance, ensure safe reliable and accident free transportation on our roads.

(Nigeria) The Nigerian Navy has stepped up efforts towards eliminating all forms of crimes in Nigeria’s waters. In line with the directive of the Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas, the operational Commands have therefore sustained the ongoing clampdown on illegal refineries, crude oil theft, pipeline vandalism, smuggling, piracy and sea robbery.

(Nigeria) Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has said that although Nigeria is the 12th largest iron ore resource country in the world and the second largest in Africa, about 70 percent of the deposits are yet to be proven, a pursuit the Federal Government declares it is now engaging in.

(Nigeria) Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has said that the proposed creation of grazing zones across the country is ill-advised, warning that the proposal was against the spirit of the land use act and the overriding public interest.

(Nigeria) Igbo Youths Movement, IYM, has said that Fulani herdsmen have killed 710 other Nigerians excluding the 48 Agatu people in Benue State in the last 10 months without the Federal Government addressing the issue.

(Nigeria) The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, has ordered all Zonal Assistant Inspectors-General of Police, FCT and State Command Commissioners of Police to arrest anybody found selling petrol and other petroleum products in plastic containers.

(Nigeria) Defence Headquarters have alerted Nigerians of the desperation of Boko Haram to unleash terror on the people as its fleeing remnant have laid land mines on stretches of farm land in areas they were abandoning.

(Nigeria) The All Progressives Congress, APC, on Tuesday advised Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State to respect court judgments.

(Nigeria) A Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday sentenced, Innocent Dike and Godwin Ehigbue, to seven years imprisonment for dealing in drugs.

(Nigeria) FBN Holdings Plc has declared gross earnings of N505.2 billion for the financial year ended December 31, 2015.

(Nigeria) Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, has said that the state government got only N1.6 billion from the Federation Account this month and has a shortfall of N1.4 billion to meet salaries and overheads, but that it won’t stop the government from meeting its wage obligation before the end of the month.

(Nigeria) A Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos State, Chief Bode Goerge, on Tuesday appealed to party members to be peaceful and united during the forthcoming party congress.

(Nigeria) Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State,  has alleged that some All Progressives Congress, APC, politicians of Ogoni extraction were planning to use military helicopters to bomb some parts of Ogoni communities suspected to be hideouts for those perceived to be opposed to their political ambitions.

(Nigeria) Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has mourned the death, in an auto crash, of six medical doctors from Ekiti State and their driver, describing the development as devastating and deeply saddening.

(Nigeria) The two engineers, who constructed the collapsed seven-storey guest house of the Synagogue Church of All Nations,  Akinbela Fatiregun and Oladele Ogundeji, have been ordered to o remain in Kirikiri Maximum Prisons, Lagos till May 3, by a Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja.

(Nigeria) Alarmed by the growing wave of communal conflicts and other clashes in some parts of the country, the Federal Government has ordered all security agencies in the country to crush and deter all crises that have the potential to breach the peace and national stability.

From Right: President of African Bar Association, Hannibal Uwaifo presenting a letter conferring  life membership of council  to Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike on Tuesday at Government House, Port Harcourt.   (Nigeria) The African Bar Association has conferred on Rivers State governor, Mr Nyesom Wike, the life membership  of its council  for reviving and stabilising  the  state judiciary.

(Nigeria) An Ikeja Chief Magistrates' Court, Lagos on Tuesday remanded, mechanic, Opeloyeru Yusuf, in Kirikiri Prison, Lagos, for allegedly defiling his neighbour's 11-year-old daughter.

(Nigeria) All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ekiti State has commiserated with the people of the state and families of six medical doctors at the Federal Medical Centre, Ido-Ekiti, and their driver who lost their lives in a ghastly motor accident along Kaduna-Abuja highway on Sunday.

(Nigeria) A Nigerian-based Indian businessman, Patrick Fernandez, has been re-arraigned before a Federal High Court in Lagos, over alleged N32 billion fraud.

(Nigeria) The Nigerian Military has said that Boko Haram insurgents now have new uniform, as a means of identification.

(Nigeria) Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has sworn-in Justice George Nnamani as the President of the Customary Court of Appeal in the state.

(Nigeria) Agbekoya Farmers Revolutionary Group, AFRG, in the country has called on the Federal Government to caution and call the Fulani herdsman to order over the incessant killing of the innocent farmers across the country which are on the increase and unsettling.

(Nigeria) The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, could not on Monday, hear the appeal by  leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB,  Mr Nnamdi Kanu, as the case was not on the court list for the day’s hearing.

(Nigeria) Nigeria is losing about 1.5 billion dollars a month to piracy, armed robbery at sea, smuggling, and fuel supply fraud, a Unites States official said.

(Nigeria) Kaduna State Commission of Inquiry into the December 12 Shiite/Army clash in Zaria, has ordered the Commandant, Nigerian Army Depot Zaria, Brig.-Gen. Christopher Gwabin Musa to appear before it.

Governor Aminu Tambuwal (right) with the Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole Folorunsho, at an event to mark this year's World Malaria Day celebration in Sokoto on Monday. (Nigeria) Nigeria alone accounts for over 40 percent of the estimated total malaria deaths globally, a situation that is not only alarming, but must be tackled for any meaningful development to occur, Sokoto State governor, Mr Aminu Tambuwal, has said.

From Right: Rivers State Governor, Nyesom  Wike;  former Jigawa State Governor,  Sule Lamido and PDP National Chairman,  Senator Ali Modu Sheriff  in Dutse for the PDP Membership Registration Rally on Monday. (Nigeria) Rivers State governor, Mr Nyesom Wike has declared that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,  will take over the reins of  governance in 2019 because  Nigerians have discovered that the All Progressives Congress, APC,  is a political party  founded in  deceit.

(Nigeria) Justice Adebukola Banjoko of an Abuja High Court on Monday admitted Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC’s 2007 statements as exhibits and overruled Jolly Nyame, the ex-Taraba governor’s objections, thereby ending a three-year trial-within-trial.

(Nigeria) The Federal Government will require about N2trillion to complete no new fewer than 226 ongoing road projects across the country.

The Court of Appeal sitting in has upheld the judgement of a Lagos High Court which ordered Deeper Christian Life Ministry to pay N5 million as damages for trespassing on a parcel of land belonging to the Celestial Church of Christ, CCC. 

(Nigeria) Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, secured the conviction of a former member of the Kogi State House of Assembly and former Caretaker Chairman,

(Nigeria) The visiting United States  Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Amb. Samantha Power, has expressed hope in the future of the 24 freed abducted Chibok girls.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole (right) and Chief Tony Anenih at the St Anthony's Catholic Church, Uromi where the Governor bagged an award for his service to the Church, on Sunday. (Nigeria)  Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State and Chief Tony Anenih, former Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, re-united in Church, weekend, at the 10th Anniversary of St Anthony’s Catholic Church, where the governor was given an award for his services to the Church.

(Nigeria) Dapo Daniel Oyebanjo, popular Nigerian singer and Chief Executive Officer of D’banj Records, with stage name, D’banj, on Monday, cleared the air on weather actress/singer, Tonto Dikeh, has left his record label or not.

(Nigeria) The appeal by the National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd) on Monday suffered a setback due to the inability of the Federal Government to file its brief of argument.

(Nigeria) Deputy Governor of Edo State, Dr Pius Odubu, has denied an allegation that he sponsored native doctors to kill his boss, Governor Adams Oshiomhole.

(Nigeria) Access Bank on Monday posted a profit after tax of N19.4 billion for the first quarter ended March 31, 2016, according to the company's unaudited.

(Nigeria) The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Monday struck out an application brought by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, asking the Code of Conduct Tribunal to stay proceedings pending determination of his appeal.