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The military has released 230 suspected Boko Haram terrorists made up of two hundred and nineteen males and eleven females after profiling them. A source within the military says the suspects were cleared after it was established that they are not terrorists but…

Detained publisher of Kaduna-based Desert Herald Newspaper, Tukur Mamu, has written to the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, demanding the retraction of his profiling and designation as a ‘Terrorist’ and ‘Terrorism Financier’. This was contained…

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational Associated Institutions will resume today (Monday) after the seven-day warning strike they embarked upon last week. Their sister union, the National Association of Academic Technologists of the University, also embarked…

Veteran Nollywood actor, Amaechi Muonagor, has died at the age of 62 after a prolonged illness. This was disclosed by a social commentator, Morris Monye, via his X handle, on Sunday. Muonagor was said to have suffered kidney failure and was on dialysis. The sudden…

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Bola Tinubu to enforce a judgment of a Federal High Court in Lagos which declared payment of pensions to former governors as unlawful. SERAP also called on the President to put modalities in…

One week after the authorities of Nigeria Customs Service opened the Illela land border between Nigeria and Niger Republic, the government of Niger Republic on Friday opened its border in Konni for operations. A source, Nuhu Samaila, who briefed our correspondent from Konni,…

The Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, has met with FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, at his office in Abuja, the state capital. Accompanying the defence chief were top military officers drawn from the Nigerian Army. Addressing Wike, the CDS pledged the army’s commitment…

The traditional ruler of Topo, a suburb of Badagry, Lagos State, Chief Oluwadami Avoseh has appealed to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State to intervene and stop an expatriate from claiming Topo Island, their ancestral land. Avoseh, who made the appeal while briefing…

The Academic Staff Union Of Universities (ASUU), University of Abuja branch, has rejected the advertisement for the institution’s Vice Chancellor position. It would be recalled that the current management of the University, led by the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Abdulrasheed Na’Allah, had recently placed…

A former Director of the Department of State Services, Mike Ejiofor, has said the Nigerian Army is an interested party in the killing of 17 military personnel in Okuama community in the Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State and should…