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For some time now, the tenure of Boboye Oyeyemi, Corps Marshal and Chief Executive of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has been the subject of public debate interrogating the legality or otherwise of Oyeyemi’s continued stay as Nigeria’s number one Road Safety officer.   The opposition relies on the …

The kidnap students of Government Science Secondary School, Kagara (Niger State) has pushed some Senators into uncontrollable anger against the Nigerian Government. Senators Mohammed Enagi (APC-Niger South), Sani Musa (APC-Niger East), and Aliu Sabi Aliu (APC-Niger North) described as unacceptable, the worsening state of insecurity in Niger State and Nigeria …

Mr Friday Eboka has been appointed the new commissioner of police in Rivers. The command’s spokesman, SP Nnamdi Omoni, disclosed this in a statement in Port Harcourt on Friday. The spokesman said Eboka would be the command’s 42 commissioners of police. The new CP replaces newly promoted Assistant Inspector General …

Arrangements and consultations are ongoing between the government of Niger and the bandits for the purpose of releasing the abducted 27 students, three staff and family members of Government Science College, Kagara, the state government has confirmed.   Gov. Abubakar Sani-Bello of Niger says the state government is at the …

The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, dismissed a suit seeking the declaration of the Igbo social cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, as illegal organisation. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling, also rejected the call for the arrest, probe and prosecution of the President General of the association, Prof George Obiozor …

Rivers State governor Friday said the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) endorsement of fresh withdrawal of fund by the federal government from the Excess Crude Account will be contested in court. “What happened to the $1 billion withdrawn from Excess Crude Account in 2017 on the stance that it will be …

The Niger Police Command has arrested 15 year-old Samaki Azozo, a student of Government Science School Izom, over alleged attempt to kidnap students of the school in Gurara Local Government Area. Mr Adamu Usman, the state Commissioner of Police, who disclosed this to newsmen in Minna, on Friday, said the …