Umar Babangida News Today

The General Officer Commanding, GOC, 2 Division Nigerian Army, Major General Bamidele Alabi, has applauded troops for their commitment and unrelenting

Mr Umar Babangida, an Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) investigator, on Tuesday, detailed how top government officials supported directors of Process and Industrial Development (P&ID) Limited in the alleged $9.6 billion scam against Nigeria.   According to the News Agency of Nigeria, Babangida, the second prosecution witness (PW2) in the current trial of James Nolan, an Irish national, told Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court in Abuja during his testimony.

Babangida was the 2nd prosecution witness (PW2) in the ongoing trial of fleeing James Nolan.

In Taraba State, the sanctity of the learning environment across many schools is threatened, mainly due to water scarcity and poor access to functional toilet facilities. Like many of her peers, Salma Yusuf, a primary six pupil at Mallam Audu Primary School in Jalingo, is compelled to go home anytime she feels pressed to relieve herself. Leaving school might not have been an option, but she had no alternative because her school lacked toilet facilities.

P&ID’s $11.5 billion case: Pacifying the villains and neglecting the heroes, by Umar Yakubu. The story of the P&ID case would require a book

Certain escaped officials of P&ID vowed that given a gun, with a single bullet, Bala Sanga, who they called a mad dog, would be their target.

Terrorists, locally dubbed as bandits, have kidnapped no fewer than 40 people in three days in fifteen villages of Bali Local Government Area of the Taraba State. The kidnapping happened between Monday, August 4 and Wednesday August 6, 2023 when the bandits invaded the villages and communities. According to Daily Trust report, many others including women and children are still missing from the latest attacks on Wednesday night in Garba Chede areas of Bali Council.

Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya, yesterday, inaugurated the modernised and digitised Museum of the Nigerian Army in Abuja.

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya on Tuesday inaugurated the modernised and digitalised Museum of the Nigerian Army in Abuja.

While reacting to the death last Friday of the Chief of the Army Staff, Lt Gen Ibrahim Attahiru, in a plane crash in Kaduna State, Babangida said his course mate who was a NAF officer but now works in an international airline, flew into Kaduna State and landed safely at the airport about the same time the tragedy happened.