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*Lieutenant General T.Y .Buratai (Nigeria) The Nigerian Army Special Board of Enquiry on allegations of Human Rights abuse against some personnel of the Nigerian Army has submitted its report to the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General T.Y .Buratai on Wednesday at the Army Headquarters, Abuja.

National Insurance Commission, NAICOM, office (Nigeria) Chief Executive Officer of AXA Mansard Insurance Plc, Mrs. Yetunde Ilori, has commended the National Insurance Commission, NAICOM,  for its effective regulatory functions that has raised the standard of operations in the nation’s insurance industry and also maintain integrity by industry operators.

(Nigeria) The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has released 1,606,901 results out of the 1,718, 425 that registered in the just concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME.

(Nigeria) Rivers State Government will in September close schools operating illegally in the state, Mr David Briggs, Chairman, Rivers State Secondary Schools Board, has said.

(Nigeria) The All Progressives Congress, APC, has described as  false and misleading news reports that the party conducted a poll to assess the performances of President Muhammadu Buhari administration.

*Senator Babafemi Ojudu (Nigeria) Special Assistant to the Ekiti State Governor on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka has described the Presidential Adviser on Political Matters, Senator Babafemi Ojudu as an unrepentant hypocrite and blackmailer, who should resolve issues with his immediate family before dabbling into matters concerning Nigeria and Ekiti State in particular.

*Part of the Police station on IBB Road  in Cabalar and police pick-up van razed by Navy personnel during the clash with policemen. (Nigeria) Normalcy has returned to Calabar, Cross River State after a gun duel between the Police and the Nigerian Navy in a part of the city on Tuesday, which left  two policemen, Sergeant Emmanuel Mbang and Corporal Davies Adudu  attached to Akim Police  Area Command, dead.

*A Russian submarine firing cruise missiles A Russian warship and submarine have fired four cruise missiles from the Mediterranean at Islamic State targets near the Syrian city of Palmyra, the Defence Ministry said on Wednesday.

*Ughelli power plant managed by Transcorp Power (Nigeria) The Association of Power Generation Companies, APGC, has said that the Federal Government’s directive on direct sale of electricity to end users, will address major challenges in the nation’s power sector.

*President Donald Trump of the U.S Amid media reports that the United States is withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, President Donald Trump tweeted on Wednesday that he would soon declare his intentions.

*Edward Snowden, former NSA contractor  Democracy and political legitimacy are increasingly under threat from attacks by politicians like U.S. President Donald Trump on “fake news” and free speech, former United States National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden told a conference.

L-R: Rivers Commissioner of Works, Iheanyichuwu Bathuel, Senator Mao Ohuabunwa, Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, Rivers State governor, Mr Nyesom  Wike, Deputy Governor Ipalibo Harry Banigo and Former Rivers State Governor, Sir Celestine Omehia during  the  Commissioning of Ulakwo II-Afara-Nihi Road in Etche Local Government Area on Wednesday by the Deputy Senate President. (Nigeria) The Peoples  Democratic Party, PDP, caucus  of the  National Assembly has endorsed Rivers State governor, Mr  Nyesom Wike for a second term.

(Nigeria) An interventionist agency, Egbema Gbaramatu Communities Development Foundation, EGCDF in Warri, Delta State, has solicited for more collaboration between major stakeholders in the area in order to meet up with the human capital and infrastructural developmental needs of indigenes of the oil bearing communities. 

*Buildings at the Nigerian Maritime University, Okerenkoko (Nigeria) Itsekiri youths under the aegis of Niger Delta Omega, NIDO, have issued a 14 days ultimatum to Federal Government, Delta State Government and International Oil Companies operating in their land to rename the location of the Nigerian Maritime University, Okerenkoko as Okerenghigho as allegedly recognised by the law of Nigeria.

*Nigerian journalists plying their trade (Nigeria) Reporters Without Borders, RSF, has raised concern over the violence against journalists in Nigeria in the past 18 months and reminded President Muhammadu Buhari’s Federal Government of its obligations as regards media freedom, including the obligation to ensure that state governors respect it.

(Nigeria) The Directorate of State Security Service, DSS, on Tuesday handed over the recently released Chibok schoolgirls, abducted by Boko Haram terrorists to the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development for rehabilitation. The 82 girls were released after the Federal Government agreed to swap them for some members of the terror group. It will be recalled that 21 girls were released in October 2016. Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, represented by his Chief Personal Physician, Dr Nicholas Audifferen, gave assurance that the Federal Government remained committed to the well being of the girls. Osinbajo said the Buhari administration would do everything possible to ensure that the girls were rehabilitated and reintegrated into society. “It is the role of government to ensure that you are safe and properly cared for,” he said. The Director Medical Services, DSS, Dr Anne Okorafor, who handed over the girls to the ministry, said they were medically, psychologically a...

(Nigeria) The Federal Government has started a N100 billion Family Home Fund – an initiative of the Federal Government’s social housing project that provides inexpensive mortgages to Nigerians who can afford N30, 000 per month, acting President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has said.   Prof. Osinbajo who spoke about this at the May 29 Democracy Day Broadcast and at the Social Investment Programme’s score card presentation yesterday organised as part of activities to mark the 2017 Democracy Day celebration, said ``already the project has started in 11 states.’’  According to him, ``there is also an aspect of the SIP that has not been mentioned. This is N100 billion set aside for the Family Home Fund of our Social Housing Project.’’ Explaining the operationalization of the fund, Osinbajo said "The N100bn is a yearly contribution to our N1 trillion Social Housing Fund, the largest in the history of the country.  ``Both the World Bank and A...

(Nigeria) The Minister of Communication, Mr Abdurraheem Shittu on Tuesday, commissioned the newly established Nigerian Army Information and Call Centre, NAIC, at the Headquarters, Nigerian Army Abuja. Director Army Public Relations Army headquarters, Brigadier General Sani Usman in a statement said, "This is in line with the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai's determined efforts of making the Nigerian Army accessible, accountable and responsive in the discharge of its Constitutional duties. "The newly commissioned Nigerian Army Information and Call Centre, NAICC, is equipped with modern communication gadgets which is manned by specialists from various corps to monitor and receive complaints from the public through the short code of 193 using any of the telecommunication service providers in the country.  "The NAICC is expected to also receive calls or complains from troops serving in various parts of the country. Thus, saving them the stress of...

(Nigeria) Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s cousin, Azibaola Robert, has asked the Federal High Court in Lagos to declare that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has no power to remand suspects under sections 293 and 294 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, ACJA, 2015. Robert, a lawyer and environmental activist, filed the suit following his arrest and detention by the commission last April. He has since been arraigned and granted bail by a Federal High Court in Abuja. Robert was accused of receiving $40 million in September 2014 by former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col Sambo Dasuki (retd) for supplying “tactical communication kits." The commission said he received another N650 million from Dasuki on December 8, 2014. Robert had sued the EFCC, Attorney-General of the Federation and the Federal Government over his detention. His counsel, Mr Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, who filed the suit in Lagos, on Tuesday,  said he was ready to move hi...

*Federal High Court, Lagos (Nigeria) A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Tuesday, warned lawyers and litigants against “paying” bailiffs to serve court processes on parties to a suit.

*Sen. Stella Oduah, former Aviation Minister (Nigeria) A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Tuesday, adjourned until June 29, hearing in the suit by Sterling Bank against a former Aviation Minister, Sen. Stella Oduah, over alleged indebtedness.

*House of Representatives, Nigeria (Nigeria) The House of Representatives Committee on National Security and Intelligence is scheduled to visit the headquarters of the National Intelligence Agency, NIA,  as part of its oversight function to unravel the controversy over the $43.4million recovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Apartment 7B in Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos.

*Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State   (Nigeria) Ekiti State governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari, to resign if he truly loves the country, as ill-health is not allowing the President to effectively discharge his constitutional duties.

*NAF's Mi-35M Super Hind (Nigeria) The Nigerian Air Force, NAF, component of Operation Lafiya Dole , has deployed newly acquired  all weather gunship, Mi-35M Super Hind in the battle against Boko Haram insurgents in the North East.

*Igbosere Magistrate Court, Lagos (Nigeria) An Igbosere Chief Magistrate Court, Lagos on Tuesday, ordered the remand of a property developer, Felix Ezeamama, in Prisons Custody over alleged armed robbery,  attempted murder and unlawful damages.

*Acting President Yemi Osinbajo (Nigeria) Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has signed into law two bills from  the National Assembly that will ultimately facilitate access to more affordable credit for Nigerians.

*Shamsudeen Bala in court (Nigeria) Shamsudeen Bala, son of a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Bala Mohammed, was on Tuesday, re-arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.

R-L: Acting National Chairman of PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, Chief Sergeant Awuse, Rivers State Governor, Deputy Governor Ipalibo Harry Banigo, Governor Nyesom Wike, member Representing Port Harcourt Federal Constituency, Ken Chinda and member Representing Obio/Akpor  State Constituency, Michael Chinda during the Commissioning of Igbogo road by Governor Wike in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area  on Tuesday. (Nigeria) Rivers State governor, Mr Nyesom Wike has declared that aside the planned reliance on the security agencies to rig elections in 2019, the All Progressive Congress, APC, has no electoral value.

(Nigeria) Thousands of angry youths in Bayelsa State have staged a demonstration in support of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over the arrest and detention of Mr. George Turner, former Special Adviser to esrstwhile Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.

*Mike Ozekhome (Nigeria) By Mike Ozekhome I am shocked that the Igbos are not speaking up at the apparent siege laid on their land by uniformed person of different categories. They range from Army, Navy, Police, Civil Defence, Customs, FRSC, etc. My journey had taken me by road from Isele-Mkpitime, where I had gone to pay tribute to a Nigerian icon, Chief (Dr) P.K.C. Isagba, the Odogwu of Isele-Mkpitime.

(Nigeria) On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the declaration of the sovereign nation of Biafra, Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has prayed for and remembered millions of South Easterners killed in the 1966 to 1970 civil war. IPOB spokespersons,  Emma Nmezu and Dr. Clifford Iroanya in a statement on Tuesday, said "The Directorate of State, DOS of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, do remember today, May 30, 2017, as the 50th anniversary of the declaration of the sovereign nation of Biafra. "We also use today’s anniversary to remember millions of Biafran heroes and heroines who paid the ultimate price between 1966 and 1970 in the hands of the genocidal Government of Nigeria headed by Yakubu Gowon, armed and supported by the British Government. "The dead Biafrans also include the two million Biafrans massacred by some current leaders in Nigerian today  and their Northern colleagues at Owerri in 1968. In addition, we remember the thousands of Biafrans ...

(Nigeria) Two people were feared dead while 14 others were rescued alive by emergency respondents on Monday from a collapsed building that happened on Lagos Island.

*Prof. Abubakar Momoh (Nigeria) The Board of Trustees, members of the Advisory Council and staff of Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC and Centre for Democracy and Development, CDD, have commiserated with Nigerians on the death of an erudite scholar, a selfless personality and brilliant political scientist, Prof. Abubakar Momoh, who was a member of our Advisory Council and Director-General of the Electoral Institute until his death.

(Nigeria) For sustainable proactive disaster management, Nigeria has adopted the implementation of measures aimed at increasing capacity of its citizens to promote risk reduction and reduce their vulnerabilities, Director General of National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Engr. Mustapha Maihaja, has said.  

(Nigeria) Nigerian Army has denied allegation by Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB,   that   "there was sporadic shootings by the Army in Aba and Umuahia axis," on Monday.    

*Mr  Abubakar Mahmoud, SAN (Nigeria) The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has condemned the President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government over the continued detention of a former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Das‎uki (retd)  and the leader of Shi'ite movement, El-Zakyzaky despite court orders which granted them bail.

(Nigeria) The youth wing of the pan Igbo socio political group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, on Monday, vowed to hold the Federal Government responsible should anything happen to pro-Biafra agitators.

(Nigeria) The just released Annual States Viability Index,  ASVI, shows that 14 states are insolvent as their Internally Generated Revenues, IGR in 2016 were far below 10 percent of their Federation Account Allocations, FAA, in the same year.

*Dr. Ayodele Fayose, Ekiti State governor (Nigeria) Ekiti State governor, Dr. Ayodele Fayose has called on the Federal Government to increase the monthly allowance of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, members in view of the dwindling purchasing power of the Naira.

*Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State (Nigeria) Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State on Monday appreciated God for the sustained peace in the state.

*Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state (Nigeria) Ekiti State Government has kicked off its Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS,  with 4,938 workers.

(Nigeria) As Nigerians celebrate two years of President Muhammadu Buhari's administration on Democracy Day on Monday, the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ekiti State has scored the President high in the programmes and policies implementation of the APC-led Federal Government.

(Nigeria) The Federated Niger Delta Ijaw Communities, FNDIC, and Gbaramatu Rebirth Initiative, GRI, have called on acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo and Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State to prevail on Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to correct its errors that had deprived the Ijaw people of Gbaramatu Kingdom and Warri in general, real democratic freedom and ensure creation of electoral state constituency, which INEC earlier promised.

Mr Abba Moro, former Minister of Interior (Nigeria) Former Minister of Interior, Mr Abba Moro has emphasized the fact that democracy remains the best form of government and opined that under no circumstance can military rule ever serve as an alternative to democratic governance.

(Nigeria) As Nigeria marks its 18th Democracy Day anniversary, a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, has  granted  Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP and Paradigm Leadership Support Initiative, PLSI,  leave to secure the release of Federal Government audited reports for 1999-2015.

*Sen. Bola Tinubu (Nigeria) Former Lagos State Governor, Sen. Bola Tinubu on Sunday urged Nigerians not to take the nation’s democracy for granted, but keep and nurture it for the progress and growth of the country.

(Nigeria) Justice Ibrahim Buba of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has commenced hearing in the N97 millions suit against  Wema Bank Plc by a 22- years-old Nigerian model, based in United States of America,  Nneoma Anosike for allegedly using her picture for commercial  purpose without authorisation.

*Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State (Nigeria) For over one month running, the airwaves have been replete and the national dailies inundated with stories and news of all kinds about Rivers State, the Treasure Base of Nigeria.

*Humanitarian assistant in the North East, ravaged by Boko Haram (Nigeria) The World Health Organisation, WHO, said on Sunday that it would partner with the media to address the humanitarian crisis in the North East, ravaged by Boko Haram insurgency.

L-R: Rivers State governor, Mr Nyesom Wike, General Overseer of the Reedeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye and the Chairman of the Rivers State Christian Association of Nigeria, Archbishop Isaac Anyanasikike during the presentation of the certificate of occupancy for the  State Ecumenical Centre by Pastor Enoch Adeboye on behalf of the Rivers State Government.  The Rivers State Government on Sunday  formally handed over the State Ecumenical Centre to the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, after the church was commissioned and dedicated to God by the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye.