Police Interim Report submitted to the Inspector General of Police, Hafiz Ringim by the investigating Police team looking into the bomb blast of last Thursday, showed that the suicide bomber was not a Nigerian but possibly a Sudanese or a Somali national and that the bombs that exploded, twin bombs tied together, were foreign made explosives.

THE horror and devastation suicide bombers cause in distant lands usually seen on television were brought to Nigeria forcefully, yesterday morning, when a suicide bomber struck at the headquarters of the Nigeria police in Abuja.

MANY members of the immediate past cabinet are ontheir way back to the new federal cabinet being constituted as the security screening for the ministerial nominees formally commenced yesterday.

THE ongoing probe and trial of former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Dimeji Bankole, and his Deputy, Alhaji Usman Bayero Nafada, for alleged fraud during their tenure took a dramatic turn, yesterday, following alleged decision of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to use top officers of the National Assembly, NASS, as prosecution witnesses.

EMBATTLED former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, yesterday, challenged the entire 16-count criminal charge preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, insisting that they were baseless and dubious.

TRAVAILS of the embattled former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, were further compounded by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, as he was again arraigned before a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Apo, alongside his erstwhile deputy, Alhaji Usman Bayero Nafada.

FORMER Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Usman Bayero Nafada, who was quizzed last week by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, alongside other principal officers of the sixth National Assembly is likely to be charged to court today with his former principal, Mr. Dimeji Bankole over allegations of corrupt enrichment and misappropriation of over N40 billion

The North’s patience with zoning seems exhausted after a prominent northern leader Alhaji Lawal Kaita,declared weekend, that they were no longer interested in the arrangement that sees Nigeria’s top six offices shared among the six geo-political zones.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, pleaded a Federal High Court in Abuja, to dismiss the bail application that was filed before it by the embattled former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, insisting that the applicant, if free, will interfere with other investigations involving him.

FOLLOWING the distortion of the zoning arrangement of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, with the election of Aminu Waziri Tambuwal as Speaker of the House of Representatives, the leadership of PDP has readjusted the zoning formula of its key positions.