A pan Igbo socio- political group, South East Town Unions, says President Muhammadu Buhari’s manner of appointments which have only favoured the North, is threatening the unity of Nigeria.

Abdifatah Hagi, Deputy Governor of the Lower Shebelle Region, said Al-Shabaab on Tuesday captured an African Union military base in Somalia.

Pandemonium broke out in some parts of Abeokuta, such as Iberekodo, Ago-Odo, Elega and Adatan yesterday, as two rival cult groups clashed, leaving three persons dead, including a newly-wedded man.

I SAW it differently. We have been long on this, sometimes, misbegotten journey without any destination in sight from 1999 to 2015, for instance. Our arrivals and departures have always revealed mirages and milestones and other unchartered routes not previously spotted in the electronic trackers of our political voyage. The desired salvation, pardon the religious connotation, is always in the future – in the future that has appeared perpetually impossible to transform into reality.

Scandalous: Oshiomhole’s outburst was shocking as it was public knowledge before his bombshell that the total cost of the bridge procured as a Public Private Partnership Project under the Design, Build, Finance, Operate and Transfer, DBFOT, model is N108 billion. The posers are how consultancy alone on such a project would gulp N140 billion? Where did the governor get his information? Did he crosscheck before going to town with it?

Barely 24 hours after the Department of State Services (DSS), issued a statement that it had arrested 20 suspected Boko Haram commanders in Lagos, Kano, Enugu, Plateau and Gombe states, the Enugu State Police Command, yesterday, said it was not aware of the arrest of any Boko Haram member in the state.

ABUJA—A former Works Minister under the Jonathan administration may be recalled to refund hundreds of millions of Naira of public funds, which he and his family members allegedly wasted under the guise of attending official trips while in office. Already, federal auditors looking into the books of the ministry, have discovered shocking details of how the minister siphoned millions of Naira in the name of sending top officials of the ministry abroad for official functions.

The Defence Headquarters has said that the end of insurgency in Nigeria is in sight and that all known camps of insurgents on Nigerian territory have been dislodged.

Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo departed Abuja Monday for Abidjan for the swearing-in ceremony of Nigeria’s immediate past Agriculture Minister, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina as President of the African Development Bank, AfDB.

Former Power Minister, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, yesterday, in Enugu rated governments at various levels low in the area of psychiatric and mental health care.