Former Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT, and chieftain of Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has been arrested by the State Security Service, SSS over alleged “inciting, inflammatory and grossly misleading” claims.

FORMER Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke, yesterday, explained that the majority of corruption cases filed against high profile Nigerians lacked substance.

A list of 33 ministerial nominees was presented to the President of the Senate, Senator David Mark yesterday evening. The list was presented by an unidentified presidential aide to Senator Mark who is expected to formally unveil the names at today’s session.

THE Senate reconvenes tomorrow with the screening of President Goodluck Jonathan’s list of ministerial nominees on the top of its agenda.

Inter-agency trading of blames may have taken the centrestage among the security forces as they battle to survive a possible sanction from the Presidency over what Presiden Goodluck Jonathan described as “Intelligence failure” that orchestrated terrorism unleashed on Nigeria by Boko Haram.

EMBATTLED former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, yesterday, challenged the power of an Abuja High Court sitting at Apo, to try him for alleged fraud.

THE Inspector General of Police, Hafiz Ringim’s job may be on the line as President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, officially asked him to explain what he called ‘intelligence failure’ that made it possible for the Force Headquarters, in Abuja to be bombed.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan and service chiefs were, yesterday, locked in a closed door meeting that lasted for many hours in Aso Rock over last Thursday’s bomb blast at the Police Force headquarters.

SMARTING from the bombing of Police Headquarters in Abuja, Thursday, the police authorities, yesterday, arrested 58 sect members including some Somalis when its crack investigating team stormed Maiduguri, the Boko Haram headquarters.

There are indications that two experts in improvised explosive devices from the United States (US) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) may have arrived Nigeria to help the police unravel several disturbing angles in the investigations into the twin bomb blasts that rocked the Force Headquarters in Abuja on Thursday.

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.