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The federal government says 23 passengers still in captivity after an attack on a train in Kaduna have regained their freedom.

Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) has criticised how his counterpart in the Labour Party, Peter Obi has been hobnobbing with Nigerian ex-military leaders.  Former military dictators including Ibrahim Babangida, Sani Abacha and Abdulsalami Abubakar all have massive corruption cases and human rights abuses hanging on their necks.  In a post on his Twitter handle on Sunday, Sowore knocked the regimes of the former dictators and how they appear to want to hand over the country to their cronies after destroying it. 

Tukur Mamu, media consultant to Ahmed Gumi, the popular Islamic cleric, has been reportedly arrested in Cairo, Egypt capital.

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) on Monday denied endorsing the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) which has former governors, Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima. The CAN President, Archbishop Daniel Okoh, in a statement by his spokesman, Luminous Jannamike, faulted a media report that the association had changed its position regarding the same-faith ticket. He said the report was ridiculous, malicious, untrue and should be disregarded in its entirety by all reasonable members of the society.

Speaking at a book launch in Kaduna Thursday last week, Prof Ango Abdullahi, leader of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), accused some unnamed persons of