$2.1b Arms Deal Scandal: 'Money I Received From Dasuki Was For Publicity And Media In Political Campaigns' - Dokpesi

Raymond Dokpesi, AIT Chairman

Dokpesi explained to the EFCC officials that the N2.1 billion that he collected from the former NSA was payment for publicity and media political campaigns during the 2015 General Elections.

Syria air strikes: MPs authorise UK action against Islamic State

MPs have overwhelmingly voted by 397 to 223 to authorise UK air strikes against so-called Islamic State in Syria after an impassioned 10-hour Commons debate.

Nigeria: The Lion That Escaped From Joz Zoo Killed

A four-year-old lion has been shot dead after it escaped from a zoo in Jos, central Nigeria.

Photos: Biafran Protesters Burn Onitsha Central Mosque After Last Night Chaos With The Police That Killed Armless Protesters

Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Babatunde Ogunwusi, Ojaja II releases Stunning Photos of himself ahead of his coronation this month

Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Babatunde Ogunwusi, Ojaja II

Dasuki: Arrest and Prosecute Jonathan, Okonjo-Iweala - Oshiomhole to Buhari

Gov. Oshiomole of Edo State

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state has advised the federal government to prosecute former president Goodluck Jonathan and immediate past finance minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

Chris Brown cancels his Australia & New Zealand tour after being refused a visa due to his domestic violence conviction against Rihanna

Brown said he hoped he would be able to see his fans in the future

Chris Brown has cancelled his tour to Australia and New Zealand after being refused a visa due to his domestic violence conviction against Rihanna.

Oklahoma City: Police Give Donkey A Lift In Patrol Car *** Officer Kyle Canaan thought the animal would be safer in his squad car - but things didn't go so well once it was in the vehicle.

Norman Police Department posted the picture on its Facebook page

Police in Oklahoma have given a donkey a lift in their patrol car after rescuing the roaming animal.

Man Who Hid 51 Turtles In Trousers Faces Jail *** Strange "bulges" in the 27-year-old's clothing gave the game away - and now he has pleaded guilty to a lucrative smuggling scheme.

Xu was stopped by Canadian border authorities as he drove back to Ontario

A man who was caught at a US border crossing with 51 turtles taped underneath his trousers has admitted smuggling charges involving more than 1,000 of the reptiles.

Assad: Coalition Airstrikes Made IS Stronger *** Syria's president blames the US and coalition forces for the jihadists' growth, while praising Russia for bombing his enemies.

"Assad: Coalition Has Helped I.S."

Bashar al Assad has said US-led coalition bombing in Syria helped Islamic State to expand and recruit fighters.

New Dad Zuckerberg To Give Away 99% Of Fortune *** The Facebook founder welcomes his daughter into the world and reveals plans to give away most of his shares - worth some £30bn.

Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla welcomed their baby daughter on Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg has revealed he plans to give away 99% of his $45bn Facebook fortune as he announced the birth of his first child.

A Scottish climber has survived an attack by a grizzly bear by prizing open its jaws

Greg Boswell is recovering from serious leg injuries after fighting back when a grizzly bear attacked him in the Rocky Mountains.


The grizzly bear's real name is the North American brown bear

A Scottish climber has survived an attack by a grizzly bear by prizing open its jaws when it sank its teeth into his leg.

SHOCKING: Rivers University expels student for having “speech and hearing challenges”

The student opened the letter she was clutching in her hands and felt the walls around her crumble.

Article: A Peep Into Buhari’s Utopian Promises (1), By Jaafar Jaafar

President Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has a huge task before him. Delivering a cargo of campaign promises and clearing a cumulative heap of mess left by his predecessors is the huge task. Nigeria’s problem is like heirloom, passed from one generation to another.

Nigeria: Obafemi Awolowo University shut after students protest

Obafemi Awolowo University

The management of the Obafemi Awolowo University has directed students to go on a mid-semester break following protests over poor hostel facilities.

Nigeria: Buhari administration’s anti-corruption war political — Shehu Sani, APC Senator

Shehu Sani

The Senator representing Kaduna Central in the Nigerian Senate, Shehu Sani, on Tuesday challenged the Code of Conduct Bureau to look into asset declarations of other Governors who served at the same time as the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, saying politics should not be mixed with anti-graft war.

Nigeria: Brutalised by Ogun police DPO, woman loses pregnancy

A 37-year-old woman, Risikat Bamidele, has lost her nine-week-old pregnancy after police officers tortured her in Abeokuta, the Ogun State Capital.

SHOCKING: Majority Nigerians unimpressed by Buhari government’s anti-corruption war – Transparency International

President Muhammadu Buhari

An overwhelming number of Nigerians think corruption is on the rise and that the government is doing little to fight it, a new survey by Transparency International and Afrobarometre published on Tuesday, has shown.

N2.1bn arms money scandal: What I know about EFCC probe of Dokpesi — Lawyer

Mike Ozekhome

Mike Ozekhome, the lawyer to Raymond Dokpesi, founder of Daar Communications, Raymond Dokpesi, has said he was not aware his client received money from the office of the former National Security Adviser, NSA, Sambo Dasuki.

Article: Root Causes of the Biafran Struggle, By Femi Aribisala

When a major tribe is treated procedurally as second-class in their own country, there will be a demand for self-determination sooner rather than later.

Faleke sues INEC, asks Court to declare him Kogi’s governor-elect

The deputy governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the November 21 election in Kogi State, James Faleke, on Tuesday filed a suit at the Federal High Court, Abuja, demanding his declaration as governor-elect.

Nigeria: PDP condemns Dokpesi’s arrest

Olisa Metuh, Spokesman, PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has condemned Tuesday’s arrest of television and radio proprietor, Raymond Dokpesi, and other opposition people by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

$2.2billion Arms Deal: This Is The Reason Why EFCC arrested Dokpesi, ex-Governor Bafarawa

Dokpesi

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday arrested the founder of Africa Independent Television (AIT), Raymond Dokpesi, and former Sokoto state Governor, Attahiru Bafarawa, in connection with the ongoing investigation into arms procurement by the office of the National Security Adviser during the Goodluck Jonathan administration

Nigeria: Police IG Arase’s claim 90,000 officers killed in Boko Haram insurgency false

Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase

Nigeria’s House of Representatives resolved last Wednesday to investigate claims earlier in the month by Nigeria’s inspector-general of police, Solomon Arase, that 90,000 police officers have been “lost” to the Boko Haram insurgency since 2011.

Dasuki: Buhari seeking vengeance with corruption fight – Fayose

Buhari-and-Dasuki

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, has described Tuesday’s arrest of the immediate-past National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd) by men of the Department of State Services (DSS), as continuation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime of vengeance, saying “disobeying court order and later arresting and detaining the same person the court ordered to be allowed to travel abroad for medicare is the peak of dictatorship.”

Nigeria: I plotted my boss’ kidnap because she maltreated me —Driver

By Esther Onyegbula

A suspected kidnapper, Solomon Michael, who was paraded alongside four others at the Lagos State Police command, Ikeja, has confessed that he plotted the kidnap of his boss because she maltreated him.

Do only the poor go to jail in Nigeria?

Nigerian Prison

By Tabia Princewill

Nigeria’s criminal justice system has often been criticised and ridiculed for its inability to secure convictions, particularly for offences perpetuated by high profile individuals. Yet, one recalls the case of a young man, Kelvin Ighodalo, who was sentenced to 45 years in prison for stealing Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s N50,000 Sony Ericsson phone.

Nigeria: Fulani herdsmen kill palmwine tapper, injure one other in Delta

By Ochuko Akuopha

A-30-year-old palmwine tapper was, yesterday, killed and one other severely injured by suspected Fulani herdsmen at Ofagbe community, Isoko North Local Government Area, Delta State.

Kogi: INEC, APC in dilemma as Faleke remains unwilling running mate

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, Levinus Nwabughiogu & Omeiza Ajayi

The refusal of the All Progressives Congress, APC’s, erstwhile deputy governorship candidate in the last election in Kogi State, Mr. James Faleke, to be the running mate to the new candidate, Yahaya Bello, in this weekend’s governorship supplementary election has put his party and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in a quandary.

40,000 IPOB members shut down S’East for detained Radio Biafra boss

*Protesters ground Onitsha, Aba, Owerri, other places Crowd defies military threat

*Kanu’s trial stalled

*Jewish community makes case for one Nigeria

Biafran protesters

By Nwabueze Okonkwo Chimaobi Nwaiwu, Nnewi, Chinonso Alozie & Ugochukwu Alaribe

Nigeria: Hardship as power supply drops to six hours daily

Power Outage in Nigeria

The hardship currently witnessed by Nigerians across the country took a turn for the worse in Abuja in the last couple of days as Abuja Electricity Distribution Company reduced power supply to the Federal Capital Territory and neighbouring states to an average of six hours a day.