Joint Army, DSS, Amotekun operation kills ISWAP leader planning terrorist attacks
An intelligence-led operation by a combined team of troops of the Nigerian Army, Department of Department of State Services (DSS) personnel, and Western Nigeria Security Network aka Amotekun officers, at the weekend in Owo forest, Ondo State, eliminated a senior leader of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), Abdussamad Ohida.
Halliburton: CDHR, SERAP ask FG to prosecute indicted officials
Two human rights groups, Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) and Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), yesterday called on the Federal Government, to urgently begin the prosecution of Halliburton and its officials in Nigeria for their involvement and complicity in the Halliburton $180 million bribery scandal.
Fashola marks birthday, donates to children’s homes
By Olasunkanmi Akoni Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, Sunday, celebrated his 46th birthday, donating food items to the Missionaries of Charity Babies’ Home in Ikosi, Ketu, Alapere just as he donated a new building to the Chief Michael Oyemade Ogunjobi Children’s Home in Surulere.
Court jails college staff for six months
In a related development, Justice A. N. Nwankwo of the High Court in Ebonyi State has discharged and acquitted Mr. Sunday Awol Adom of all the 19 count charges filed against him and two others.
FG destroys Nigeria-Biafra war bombs in Enugu
By Tony Edike ENUGU—ABOUT 183 different types of unexploded explosives recovered from nine states affected by the Nigerian – Biafran Civil War were yesterday detonated by the Ministry of Defence, 39 years after the war ended.
Gunmen abduct Nomagbon Pharmacy MD
It was further gathered that about two persons were rushed to an undisclosed hospital as a result of the injuries they sustained in the pandemonium that followed the sporadic shooting in the area.
