Former French leader Nicolas Sarkozy launched a fresh bid Monday to win back the presidency, announcing he would seek the nomination of his centre-right party to run in next year’s election.

The Borno Command of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has confirmed the death of one of its staff members who got drowned in a river in Maiduguri while chasing a notorious drug baron.

SENATORS, Monday, kept mute over the speculated report that a bill aimed at given President Muhammadu Buhari emergency sweeping powers to source money to stimulate the country’s ailing economy was in the offing, saying they have not read the report of the bill and so cannot talk.

The FCT Police Command on Monday in Abuja said it had arrested three suspected members of a notorious kidnapping and car snatching syndicate. The suspects are: Alhaji Isah Aliu, Labaran Abubakar and Abdullahi Ishaq. Presenting the suspects to newsmen, the FCT Commissioner of Police, Mr Muhammad Mustafa, said that among the suspects was the leader of the gang.

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) says its on-going five year expansion programme, designed at expanding electricity transmission capacity to 11,500 Mega Watts(MW) by 2019 will require 7.5 billion dollars, part of which the Federal Government is to contribute 1.5 billion dollars .

The Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Mr. Maikaniti Baru, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari directives to commence exploratory activities in the Benue Trough was part of efforts to guarantee energy security of the country.

The leadership of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) yesterday called on the British Police and the Federal government to leave London based Biafra activist, Yagozie Emmanuel alone as no antics against the liberation of the Igbo people will stand.

The Department of State Services (DSS) said it had arrested the leader of a Boko Haram cell in Kano, as well as 22 other suspects between July and August in furtherance to its ongoing tactical and counter-terrorism operations to degrade capabilities of criminal gangs/syndicates nationwide.

An unknown woman on Monday abandoned a day-old baby girl near the main gate of Government College, Katsina. The woman abandoned the baby about 300 meters away from Katsina Motherless Baby Home at the early hours of the day.

A former Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu, says President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration means well for Nigerians, urging support for its developmental programmes.

The Department of State Services (DSS), has arrested one Mr. Aikhoje Moses for threatening the Switzerland and Denmark embassies.

Miss One Nigeria World 2016, Queen Success Adaobi Okafor, Monday, hailed the Chairman, Capital Oil and Gas Industries Limited and President, FC Ifeanyi Ubah, Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah, over the successful outcome of the football partnership deal entered with English football club, West Ham United.

The Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, sitting in Abuja, has fixed October 5 to deliver ruling on the fresh motion seeking to suspend hearing on the 16-count criminal charge pending against the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki.

A Gudu Upper Area Court, Abuja, on Monday sentenced, Matino Jang, to six months in prison for trying to steal a car with remote.

By AbdulSalam Muhammad KANO – No fewer than 20 people were feared dead when TETFUND sponsored two storey building under construction collapsed at Kano University of Technology . The incident that occurred midday was said to have trapped a number of labourers at the site. Eyewitness told Vanguard that there are heightened fear that the […]