Arrest of Kano legislators, political vendetta, says APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the arrest of the Speaker, Clerk and nine members of the Kano State Legislature by the EFCC as an undisguised case of political vendetta by a hurting presidency, whose target is actually the State Governor.
Gunmen kidnap Lebanese bizman in Kano
KANO —The Kano State Police Command, yesterday, confirmed the abduction of a Lebanese, Mr Hassan Zein, at the Sharada Industrial Area of Kano metropolis.
The command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Magaji Majiya, confirmed the abduction in Kano.
EFCC quizzes principal officers of Kano Assembly
Barely three weeks after the Kano State governor, Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, operatives of the Economic and Financial Commission, EFCC, yesterday moved against him.
In a move reminiscent of the Obasanjo days, agents of the anti-graft agency took away the speaker of the House of Assembly, Gambo Salau, and all the principal officers as well as the Clerk, for grilling.
I was released after N30m ransom —GUO Motors boss
ONITSHA — The Chairman of G.U.O. Motors Limited, Chief G. U. Okeke, yesterday, said he ate lunch with his kidnappers at their den before he was released on the payment of over N30 million ransom.
One feared dead as Bayelsa dep-gov’s boat convoy crashes
YENAGOA — A soldier on the security team of the Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, Rear Admiral John Jonah (rtd) was Sunday feared dead in a boat crash along the mangrove in the Ogbia-Nembe waterways.
Army accepts responsibility for Apo Killings
ABUJA— Three months after gunmen besieged an uncompleted building at Apo district of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, and killed eight squatters on allegation that they were members of the Boko Haram sect, the Nigerian Army, yesterday, claimed responsibility.
