The Borno Police Command has confirmed the killing of three suspected female suicide bombers in Konduga Local Government Area when their Improvised Explosive Devises (IEDs) detonated on their way to Maiduguri.

SOME senators opposed to the emergence of Senator Bukola Saraki as Senate President, Tuesday, accused the Clerk of the National Assembly, Alhaji Salisu Maikasua of conspiring with senators of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, against the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

All is set for the grand finale of the Most Beautiful Model In Nigeria contest and the African Designers Concert which holds on Saturday, June 13, at Sheraton Hotels and Towers Abuja. Having concluded the nationwide auditions for the contest, the organizers during the week released the pictures and names of the finalists who will slug it out on the catwalk.

The base of a multi-national military offensive against Boko Haram will cost some $30 million over the next year, the head of a regional security grouping said Wednesday in Nigeria, appealing for help. His comments came as defence ministers and military chiefs from Nigeria, Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Benin — which will contribute military personnel, police and civilians to the so-called Multi-national Joint Task Force (MNJTF) — met in Abuja to thrash out plans to take on the militants.

“It will further increase risk premium investors to require holding the Federal Government bond securities,” he said. He said that the decision of the apex bank to stop banks from selling dollars sourced from the CBN among themselves was expected to further increase the pressure in the foreign exchange market.