The Nigerian Army disclosed on Thursday that its troops on internal security operations at Akwanga highway Nasarawa State on Wednesday arrested a suspected gun runner, Mohammed Bello, with the fabricated guns in an Opel Vectra Saloon Car heading to Saminaka to link up with his gang leader Damina Saminaka.

The police have deployed 8, 000 personnel across Kaduna metropolis ahead of the protest by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) over the sack of 36,000 civil servants by Gov Nasir El-Rufa’i.

A deafening explosion in the early hours of today rocked an oil facility allegedly belonging to Nigerian Gas Company, NGC, in Ejere community, Warri south local government area.

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I READ one of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministers say that his boss is poised to seek re-election in 2019.  Before his poorly-packaged, unsolicited public service announcement, there were media reports that former Rivers governor and current minister of Transport, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, had been quietly reappointed as Director-General of Buhari’s presidential (re-election) campaign organisation.