Maj.-Gen. Bamidede Ashafa, the National Coordinator of Operation Safe Corridor, has said that the programme has concluded the deradicalisation of the first batch of 95 surrendered Boko Haram combatants.

The Police Command in Plateau on Thursday dismissed rumour of a bomb scare at the terminus area of Jos township.

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has sought the input of the Nigeria Institute of Architects (NIA) and the Architects Registration Council of Nigeria (ARCON) in the design of masterplans for the new cities billed to be developed across the state.

The Catholic Archbishop of Abuja Dioceses, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, on Thursday in Abuja, advised the Federal Government to sanction perpetrators of hate speech in the country.

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), an NGO, has advised youths to play safe as they celebrate this year’s Valentine.

A bipartisan Senate plan to protect young illegal immigrants from deportation appeared headed toward a Senate showdown on Thursday as wary Democrats signaled that a solution could be close.

U.S. President Donald Trump in his tweets on Thursday called the suspected gunman in the massacre of 17 people at a high school in southern Florida “mentally disturbed”.

Results of finals on day six of the Pyeongchang Olympics

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, on Thursday directed the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to ensure that petrol queues were cleared in Abuja before Sunday.

The senator representing Edo Central constituency, Sen. Clifford Ordia, has decried the poor state of Nigerian prisons, saying ‘it is a national embarrassment to see a national prison in such a moribund state’.