By Onuminya Innocent In Sokoto Bandits in the early hours of Tuesday invaded Adiya farm located behind Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar III International Airport, Sokoto , carting away no fewer than 200 cows and 180 rams. The farm which is 10 kilometres from Sokoto metropolis is owned by a business mogul Dr Abdullahi Adiya. Addressing newsmen and security agencies at the site, Dr Adiya said he left the farm around 12:30am but received a destress call by one of his staff that armed bandits invaded the farm early hours of today and went away with scores of animals. He lamented that

Deji Elumoye in Abuja   President Muhammadu Buhari took a bold step Wednesday to stem the planned defection of 22 senators of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to another party. At a meeting with the aggrieved lawmakers at the Council Chambers of the State House, Abuja, with the affected senators including Smart Adeyemi, Frank Ibezim, Danladi Sankara and Ibrahim Oloriegbe led by the Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Uzor-Kalu, the president noted the concerns of the senators who failed to secure the party’s return ticket to the red chamber, about the future of the ruling party but praised their

The comedian and vlogger, Chukwu Emeka, popularly known on social media as Broda Mike, who was arrested by the Department of State Services on June 14, in Benin City, Edo State, is to be detained till July 7, 2022. The lawyer to the comedian identified simply as Mr. Obo, confirmed to The PUNCH in a telephone conversation, Tuesday, that the DSS had a court order to detain Chukwu till July 7. This would make it 23 days from the day he was arrested. “There is a court order remanding the guy. Until that time expires, there’s no way they can

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will on Tuesday, depart Abuja on a State Visit to Portugal at the invitation of President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.   According to a statement signed on Tuesday by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President will be conferred with the country’s National Honour and decorated with the ‘Great Collar of the Order of Prince Henry’.   The statement is titled ‘President Buhari to pay a visit to Portugal; participate in UN Ocean Conference’.   According to Shehu, “The two Presidents are expected to chair an enlarged bilateral

The Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, on Tuesday, received a fresh order to probe the erstwhile Chief Justice, Tanko Muhammed over the allegations of corruption raised against him by some justices of the Supreme Court.   14 Justices of the Supreme Court had recently leveled allegations of corruption against Tanko Mohammed, which the ex-CJN denied.   The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has then mandated the Committee led by Senator Opeyemi Bamidele to probe the allegations leveled against the ex-CJN and the crisis presently rocking the judiciary.   Lawan said, “ The chamber mandates the

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday dismissed a fresh application for bail by the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.   The application was filed pending the determination of the treasonable felony charge against him by the Federal Government.   Kanu, who is currently facing a seven-count charge, had in the application he filed through his team of lawyers led by Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), also challenged the revocation of the bail the court earlier granted to him.   He asked the court to set aside the order it made on March 28, 2019,

Bandits have abducted the wife of the Chairman, Zamfara State Union of Local Government Employees, Sanusi Mohammed Gusau. The wife, Ramatu Yunusa, who is nine months pregnant, was abducted from her husband’s house in Damba Gusau early Tuesday morning. Speaking to The PUNCH, Gusau said the bandits broke into his house around one o’clock in the morning on Tuesday and abducted his pregnant wife. He said, he was awake when the bandits jumped over the fence intending to abduct him but he suddenly hid where they could not see him. “They jumped over the wall and broke my door but

A few hours after resigning from office, Senior Advocates of Nigeria, lawyers, civil right groups and some branches of the Nigerian Bar Association on Monday called for the probe of the erstwhile Chief Justice of Nigeria, Ibrahim Muhammad. They unanimously said that the allegations against the former CJN should not be swept under the carpet. Muhammad’s resignation was made public on Monday morning. According to reports,  he tendered his resignation on the grounds of ill-health, barely a week after 14 Supreme Court Justices, in a joint petition, levelled grave allegations of maladministration and financial impropriety against the Bauchi State-born jurist. The