The US military’s top officer directed military heads on Thursday not to implement any changes to current policy on transgender personnel, a day after President Donald Trump tweeted they would be banned from serving.

A 32-year-old prison inmate and Muslim convert from Massachusetts has been sentenced to three years behind bars for threatening to kill then Barack Obama when US president, prosecutors announced.

The former governor of Jigawa State, Ibrahim Saminu Turaki has been released from Prison custody.

As the tension generated by the quit notice handed Igbo in the north is yet to settle, Arewa youths on Thursday stirred another controversy by asking the Presidency to order the immediate arrest and detention of the self-acclaimed Biafran leader, Nnamdi Kanu, over what they called threats to Nigeria’s corporate existence.

A Bill for Act to provide for Framework relating to Petroleum Producing Host Community’s participation, cost and benefit sharing among Government, Petroleum Exploration Companies and Petroleum Host Communities, 2017 has passed second reading in Senate.