The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced the arrest of the leader of the  Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. According to media reports, he was said to have been captured by security agencies and brought back to Nigeria on Sunday.  Mr Kanu, who was brought to the court amidst tight security, arrived at the court at about 1:40 pm. As stated by Mr Malami,  Justice Nyako also granted the application for the accelerated hearing of his trial to July 26 and 27 as against the earlier adjourned date of October 20. He is expected to face charges of treason in court. On October 2015, he was arrested by Nigerian authorities on an 11-count charge bordering on “terrorism, treasonable felony, managing an unlawful society, publication of defamatory  matter, illegal possession of firearms and improper importation of goods, among others.” He was granted bail on April 2017 for medical reasons. However, Mr Kanu fled the country in September 2017 after an invasion o...

Eighteen Al-Shabab terrorists were executed Sunday in Galkayo town of Mudug, the Puntland State of Somalia, after being sentenced to death earlier by the court. The men were lined up next to a sand hill outside the town of Galkayo. Security forces facing them opened fire, executing them. Also, three other men were put to death in Garowe and Qardho town by firing squad.   Chairperson of Puntland state court Mohamud Abdi Mohamed said their court proceedings followed through different stages before the execution. "Puntland State Court of Armed Forces executed 18 Al-Shabab terrorists this morning. These convicts were all behind the killings of many of our important people here. The court took the right action against them," Mohamed said.

  An apartment building in Florida partially collapsed in the early morning hours of Thursday morning (June 24) . A resident who lives in the building said he woke up to “a bang that just kept on going,” according to the  Miami Herald . Miami-Dade County Fire Chief Ray Jadallah said during a news conference that 55 units collapsed, and that 35 residents were rescued from the building. Two people were removed from the rubble. One person died, 10 people were treated at the scene and two were taken to a hospital, he said. Miami-Dade Police Director Freddy Ramirez said that at least 99 people remain unaccounted for, according to South Florida outlet Local10. Miami-Dade Commissioner Sally Heyman told CNN that it was unclear if all of those unaccounted for were in the building when it collapsed because of “vacations or anything else, so we’re still waiting and unfortunately the hope is still there, but it is waning.”

  The Lagos State Police Command has arrested 21-year-old Chidinma for allegedly killing the Chief Executive Officer, Super TV, and a director in Super Network Limited. Usifo Ataga, in the Lekki area of the state. She was paraded at the police command headquarters in Ikeja on Thursday. Meanwhile, the landlord of the rented apartment where the  body of  a homicide  victim was found  had been arrested, Odumosu also said Ataga’s account had been blocked to prevent further withdrawals from it by those taking advantage of his untimely death to deplete the account. Ataga was reported missing on Sunday, June 13, by his family and friends after he didn’t return to his home in Banana Island. He would have turned 50 years old on June 18.

  The National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has returned to Nigeria after a brief holiday abroad, contrary to speculations that the APC leader was sick and hospitalised and died in France. Tinubu made his return to Nigeria on Tuesday evening a few hours after news relayed  that his health had continued to deteriorate and that he was currently receiving medical treatment at an unspecified hospital abroad. ... more details coming soon.

  The Deputy Commissioner of Police and leader of the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari, have thrown out complains that some of the arrested bandits, Boko Haram terrorists and other criminals have been released.   Abba in a post shared on his Facebook page on Thursday, June 10, said anyone with any evidence to back claims that the suspected criminals have been freed, should come forward with it. ''My Friends, These are some of the Bandits, Boko Haram Terrorist and other criminals we arrested. None of them have been released. If those keyboard warriors and Sympathizers of Criminals spreading False News that Bandits are not being arrested have any Evidence that one of the hundreds of arrested Bandits Shown above is released or Given Amnesty they should show the world pls. We are arresting Criminals and killers from all parts of the Country, in-fact as you can see above the Overwhelming Majority of Killers and criminals we arrested in Nigeria...

        Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife. The Igbo Elders Council in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Friday accused security agencies of rashly killing Igbo youths in the South-East, in the guise of fighting The Indigenous People of Biafra [IPOB]  organization and  The Eastern Security Network (ESN) members in Nigeria. Speaking at a news conference in Abuja, Chairman of the group, a former Governor of Anambra State, Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife, claimed dozens of young people, mostly male, are being killed on a daily basis by security operatives in the region. “We condemn without any reservation the destruction of public properties in the South-East, because it is not in our character to indulge in arson, brigandage,” Ezeife said. “We believe however that it is not fair and just to use a sledge hammer to kill harmless flies. “Security agencies now indiscriminately invade private homes at odd hours, in the same guise of fishing out presumed IPOB and ES...

     Image Courtesy Pixabay/GDJ Former President of the United State of America (USA) Donald Trump have welcomed President Muhammadu Buhari’s  Twitter  restriction  on civic  space,  saying it was a victory for the people of Nigeria and a needed check on the excesses of social media platforms. “Congratulations to the country of Nigeria, who just banned Twitter because they banned their President,” Mr Trump said in a statement issued Tuesday night. Donald Trump also said he wished he had taken a similar measure when he was banned from the micro-blogging platform in January. President Buhari banned Twitter last week Friday after the  online broadcast medium  deleted his tweets that  threatened genocide against a section in Nigeria.  Twitter said it was working to bypass the restriction and restore access to Nigerians

  The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has ordered all broadcasting stations in Nigeria to suspend the use of the weblog service provider, Twitter. This is according to a communique put out by NBC on Monday. In the statement signed by Professor Armstrong Idachaba, the NBC claimed that the directive is linked to the suspension of Twitter operations in Nigeria by the Federal Government. Citing the persistent use of Twitter for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence, the government suspended Twitter operations indefinitely. In line with this, NBC directed all broadcasting stations not to patronize the social networking service. It further advised all stations to uninstall Twitter and desist from using the platform as a source of information.

  Founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations(SCOAN) and televangelist, Pastor Temitope Balogun Joshua popularly known as T. B. Joshua, is dead. The cause of his death was unknown as at the time of this report. , but family sources said his remains had been deposited at the morgue and an autopsy would be performed without delay. Emmanuel TV, owned by SCOAN, is one of Nigeria’s largest Christian broadcast stations, available worldwide via digital and terrestrial switches. On 3 June in a Facebook post on his TB Joshua Ministries account, He said this in a special birthday message. “Happy Birthday to you! Viewers all over the world, June 12th is around the corner. As you know, I am a man of the people. So, the wound of one is the wound of all. “As things stand, you may have realised it will not be easy for me to celebrate my birthday under the present circumstances. Some of the people who want to come are troubled by the situation all over the world. We see their fear and their wor...

The federal government says it is suspending the activities of Twitter in Nigeria.   The federal government has suspended, indefinitely, the operations of the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, in Nigeria. The minister of information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced the suspension in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday, June 4.  Nigerian government cited the "persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria's corporate existence".

  ABCON had encouraged foreign exchange users and the general public on May 31 to patronise only BDC operators licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to get dollars at the approved rate. In a statement issued at the weekend, ABCON President, Dr. Aminu Gwadabe, said only CBN-licenced BDCs operate within regulatory guidelines of selling dollars at an approved rate as well as international best practices. He stated that parallel market activities have, for years, become major drivers of the exchange rates and control over such transactions have become burdensome. He said that forex speculators are capitalising on the state of the foreign exchange market and the naira to sell dollars above CBN-approved margin. Gwadabe said that CBN-licenced BDCs are not selling dollars to end-users above the N2 per dollar margin set by the regulator to protect the naira against foreign exchange speculators and ensure exchange rate stability. The ABCON boss also denied reports claiming that the C...