Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said Thursday’s military coup in Mali was “an apparent setback to the consolidation of democracy” and urged reinstatement of the deposed government.

Mrs Diseye D. Nsirim, the Commissioner of Police in Niger, said on Thursday that the police arrested 41 suspected hoodlums in Suleja in their effort to rid the state of criminals.

ABUJA-MEMBERS of the House of Representatives Thursday advised both legislators involved in the alleged N44million scam and Security and Exchange Commission, SEC to ceasefire pending the outcome of the adhoc committee on Ethics and privileges report.

Gunmen have kidnapped a Lebanese businessman in southern Nigeria’s oil-producing Edo State, the second such incident in Africa’s most populous country in one week, police said Thursday.

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Wednesday claimed that ,it has reduced Road Traffic Crashes by 70 per cent in the last six months in Ogun state.