Hundreds flee as Boko Haram guns down villagers in Yobe

Boko Haram Islamists shot dead at least nine people and set homes on fire in a raid on two villages in conflict-hit northeastern Nigeria, fleeing residents told AFP on Thursday.

Villagers described how dozens of gunmen on motorbikes stormed Tadagara and Dunbulwa villages, 170 kilometres (100 miles) from Yobe state capital Damaturu, from Wednesday night through to the following morning.

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Lawyer sues Buhari, Osinbajo over assets declaration

A lawyer and  rights activist, Kabir Akingbolu, has dragged President Muhammadu Buhari and his vice, Prof Yemi Osinbajo before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos over allegedly failure to keep to their promise to Nigerians during their electioneering campaigns to publicly declare their assets.

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Anti-graft war: PDP senators tackle President Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP senators were last night engaged in a war of words over alleged biases in the administration’s war against corruption. 

The PDP senators particularly accused the administration of partisanship in the anti-graft war with allegations that security agencies were coercing election officials to rewrite reports in some states to the favour of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

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Buhari begins total probe of Jonathan’s govt

A total probe of the administration run by immediate past president, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is underway as the National Economic Council, NEC, Ad-hoc Committee on the Management

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B’Haram terrorists’ ability to confront military now non-existent – Minimah

Immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Kenneth Minimah (rtd) has declared that his actions of sanctioning hundreds of soldiers who reverted to deserting the force,

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Senate c’ttee queries DSS over interference in Rivers election petition

The Senate Committee on Ethics and Public Petitions has decried the alleged involvement of the Department of State Service, DSS, in election petitions in Rivers State and asked President Muhammadu Buhari to call officials of the service to order.

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