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Ignatius Igwe     Not one Dollar is missing from the one billion dollars taken from the Excess Crude Account (ECA) in Nigeria to buy arms for the military. This is according to a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and a former Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Honourable Farouk Adamu Aliyu. “When you talk about the $1 billion, politicians can say whatever they want to say.  Part of the $1 billion, what was spent $592 million were paid for the 12 Tucano aircraft fighter jets we are buying from the United States,” he said during an interview on Channels Telev...

  One of the abducted students of Greenfield University in Kaduna State has been released by the bandits. Although the police and government authorities are yet to confirm the development, the mother of the student, Lauritta Attahiru confirmed the release of her son to Channels Television, on Tuesday. She however refused to give details of how her son was released and whether a ransom was paid or not. Some of the parents told Channels Television that the student was released on Saturday after his mother, who is the wife of a Retired Army officer from Plateau State negotiated and paid ransom ...

  The Lagos State Police Command has arrested 11 suspected cultists and traffic robbers at Railway Crossing in the Ikeja area of the state. The suspects, according to the police spokesman, Muyiwa Adejobi, were apprehended on May 1 for attacking and dispossessing innocent people of their belongings within the area. He identified the suspects as Sadiq Masaki, Oladimeji Olatunbosun, Adam Hassan, Tunde Afolayan, Michael Ademola, Olamide Johnson, Abiodun Opeyemi, Oluseyi Agbaje, Daniel Ayomide and Adebayo Tobi, “The operatives who responded to a distress call from one of the victims (name withh...

  The police authorities have arrested a man with a human head and hands concealed in a bag in a commercial bus travelling from Ajase-Ipo to Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. According to the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Okasanmi Ajayi, the suspect, Kehinde Moses, confessed to having killed the victim, Mohammed, for ritual purposes in Ajase-Ipo, Irepodun Local Government Area of the state. He said the suspect was apprehended on Monday after police operatives stopped the vehicle for search on the road, adding that Moses’ accomplice escaped by taking to his heels. “In th...