Borno State Police Command has arrested a woman on suspicion of trying to smuggle assault rifles hidden in bags of maize from neighbouring Chad to help arm a radical Islamic sect.

REMINISCENT of his Military days in the Navy, the Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Navy Captain Caleb Olubolade (Rtd), had a gun battle with two suspected kidnappers and arrested them thereafter.

TWO suspended anti-Akala lawmakers in the Oyo State House of Assembly have escaped death by the whiskers when unknown gunmen allegedly stormed their residence yesterday. But a policeman, Samuel Sule and a night guard, Mutiu Raimi were reportedly felled by the assassins’ bullets.

Erstwhile Vice-President of the country and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential aspirant, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has expressed caution on ongoing moves by the National Assembly to make federal legislators statutory members of the national executive committee of their political parties.

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If, while discussing with a few people in an evening atmosphere, you repeatedly did a dash like an athlete taking off in a 100m race but ended up doing only a metre or two especially to different directions, you could probably be taken for a mad man in Nigeria.

Finally, the much-awaited opportunity for the Super Falcons to avenge their 2008 African Women Championship semi final exit against Equatorial Guinea offered itself yesterday as the two countries qualified for the final of the 2010 edition which comes up Sunday, 1.00pm Nigerian time.

AN 82 –member coalition of Non–Governmental Organizations, NGOs, operating in Anambra State, has attributed the state’s inability to generate adequate revenue internally, despite its revenue potentials, to corrupt practices and use of unqualified staff for revenue generation.

Perpetua Nkwocha’s second hat-trick of the tournament propelled Nigeria to a 5-1 win over Cameroon and the final of the African Women’s Championship.

The Commissioner for Information in Anambra State, Chief Maja Umeh, yesterday gave a marching order to striking Association of Senior Staff Union of Universties, ASUU, in the state to go back to the class room, following increment of the lecturers’ salaries by Governor Peter Obi.

The Catholic Bishop of Aba in Abia State, Rt. Rev. Vincent Ezeonyia, has absolved Rev. Fr. Bonaventure Akwarandu of any complicity in kidnappings in his parish

The people of Adamawa-North Senatorial District have urged the Federal Government to rehabilitate the 55-Kilometre Mubi-Hong Road to ease transportation and commercial activities in the area.

The British government has announced its plan to redouble its routine immunisation and maternal and child programme in northern Nigeria with the hope of improving health of two million women in the region in the next three years.

Bauchi state Police Command has arrested one Abraham Sunday at a checkpoint along Maiduguri road in Darazo Local Government of Bauchi State for impersonating a captain in the Nigerian Army.

Newly appointed Eagles’ manager, Samson Siasia had better cook up a winning formula to take the national team to lofty heights at the 2012 Nations Cup or he would get the sack.

It has been revealed how the former Nigerian Football Federation board under Sani Lulu deliberately underpaid coaches of the national teams.