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•Kidnap suspects shot dead after shoot out with security operatives on Benin-Auchi road Senate President Ahmad Lawan The military should take the battle to bandits, the Senate said yesterday. It urged the Federal Government to deploy fighter jets to flush out terrorists from their hideouts. These were some resolutions taken …

  The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved N115.4 billion for the dualisation of the proposed Kano-Kazaure-Kongolam highway in Katsina state. This was disclosed to newsmen after the FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday Minister of Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola, who briefed State House correspondents alongside …

Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State. Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun, has said that kidnappers, armed robbers, Yahoo Boys and other criminals are after his life. The governor said the criminals resorted to the ploy following the unrelenting war being waged against them in the state by his government. Abiodun …

Senator Rochas Okorocha/Internet The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Thursday, said accused the former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, of sponsoring the so-called unknown gunmen in Imo State and trying to use IPOB for political gains. The media and publicity secretary of the group, Comrade Emma Powerful, stated this …

… Firm Begins Probe Of Explosion A Trinity Spirit Floating Production, Storage and Offloading Vessel on Wednesday exploded causing raging fire within Nigeria’s coast. The Trinity Spirit Vessel is an Offshore Support Vessel built 46 years ago. The FPSO serves as the primary production facility for OML 108 and it …

 Film star Abdulateef Adedimeji is 36 on Tuesday. The ‘Ayinla’ star took to his social media accounts to celebrate his first birthday as a married man. Abdulateef exchanged marital vows with his hearthtrob, Adebimpe Oyebade in 2021. The actor and singer said prayers for himself as he turned a year …

 The matriarch of the Murray-Bruce family, Margaret is dead. Margaret, mother of Senator Ben Murray-Bruce, passed on around 4:40am on Tuesday. The senator announced her passage in posts on his Facebook and Twitter handles. He said: “Life. Indeed, like sand in the wind, today it’s here, tomorrow it’s gone. My …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has detained the Managing Director of Medview Airline, Mr. Muneer Bankole. Bankole is expected to account for over $900,000 in connection with Hajj operations. The transactions between Bankole and the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) took place in 2019. According to a …

KENI AKINTOYE One of the greatest successes of any leader is their ability to find a good successor. Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari is not an exception to this “rule” and he must be thinking in this direction already. The problem is that there seems to be a host of contenders …