Since the security of the gov-ernment in power is always equated with national security, the police and security agencies have concentrated their attention on monitoring the activities of human rights activists and opposition figures in the country. In the circumstance, the police and security agencies have been unable to foil illegal take-over of government, through coup de tat and rigging of elections, kidnapping, hostage-taking, religious riots and civil disturbances which have continued to threaten national security.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari Thursday’s night met behind closed doors with the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, the All Progressives Congress, APC, national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, governors, National Working Committee, NWC, members and stakeholders from the South West geopolitical zone.

WIFE of the President, Dr. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari, has commended women members of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the South East for doing a wonderful job mobilizing women.

The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC), Friday shared the sum of N714.809 billion to the three tiers of government.

“I laid on the rough knitted polyester blanket at the benevolence of the cell President inside the Police Special Tactical Squad detention centre in Abuja, sweating profusely as I read an old copy of a Christian Daily Guide printed by Paul Enenche’s Dunamis Gospel Centre.”

No fewer than 3,029 pilgrims who performed the just concluded hajj exercise have returned to the country.  The  pilgrims were airlifted in a total of 11 flights carried out by the three contracted airlines – Flynas, (a Saudi based air-carrier), Max Air and Med-view airline.

A Lagos magistrate’s court sitting at Igbosere, has sentenced three men, Orimolade Oteshade, Babatunde Cole and Monsuru Lateef, to six months imprisonment with hard labour for forcible entry on land.

As part of his humanitarian efforts aimed at impacting lives, the winner of Mr. Teen Nigeria 2016, Emmanuel Somto, donated food, clothes, provisions, toiletries, uniforms, among others, to the 2,164 prison inmates of the Federal Prisons in Owerri.

Liverpool ace Sadio Mane claims he held discussions with Manchester United before signed for Liverpool in June 2016.

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Ighoyota Amori, has advised President Muhamadu Buhari to assent to the Amended Electoral Act to give proper direction for 2019 elections.