Nigeria

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, has been suspended over alleged corrupt practices. 

Coalition of Nigerian Canadian Interest Groups (CONCIG), a network of Nigerian, Canadian socio-economic and good governance organisations based in Canada will be hosting the presidential candidate of Labour Party in the last general elections and former Governor of Anambra State, Mr  Peter Obi, to a town hall meeting in Toronto, Canada on May 3. 

Fourteen years after targeting to improve reserves to about 40 billion barrels, the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NERC), has said that the country’s oil reserve remains at 37.5 billion barrels.

Elder statesman, Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, yesterday, advised President Bola Tinubu to set up a special military task force to rescue the remaining Chibok schoolgirls and others still in the captivity of Boko Haram insurgents.

In what could be described as a score card of the agency’s performance in the last three years, the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig Gen Mohammed Buba Marwa (Retd)

Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA) Resource Centre has charged the new leadership of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), under Dr Musa Aliyu (SAN)

In continuation of their onslaught on illegal fishing on Nigeria territory waters, the Nigerian Navy Forward Operating Base (FOB) FORMOSO, have handed over a Motor Fishing Trawler (MFT) OLOKUN XIV and 12 of its crew members to the Federal Department of Fisheries (FDF) in Bayelsa.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday, arraigned the two Alakijas (Alaba Alakija and Oyinkansola Alakija) before a Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos over allegations of property fraud.

A Coalition of Civil Society Groups in Nigeria, yesterday, urged the Federal Government to review and revoke pipeline surveillance contracts currently held by people associated with violence in the past, including former armed militants.

Troops of the Nigerian Army stationed in Taraba and Benue states have dealt significant blows to terrorist activities, by arresting a gun-runner, killing a terrorist and preventing kidnapping attempts.

The General Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, Lagos, Tunde Bakare, has described Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State as a visionary leader whose policies and programmes are impacting positively on lives of the people.

Cross River State Governor, Bassey Otu, has called on traditional and opinion leaders of Yala Local Council in the state to foster healthier communal ties as a tool to end communal crises.