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Former Vice President and a leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar, yesterday decried the absence of internal democracy among the country’s registered political parties.

There was a disagreement on Tuesday between the Lagos State Police Command and a 51-year-old resident of Magodo Phase II, Alhaji Alaka Abayomi, who was arrested in connection with Badoo killings in Ikorodu.

From January 1, 2018, anybody without National Identification Number issued by the National Identity Management Commission will not be able to procure Nigerian passport.

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, has urged the Dangote Group to expedite work on its crude oil refinery to enable it to come on stream before the end of 2019.

One of the pro-Biafran groups, the Biafra Zionist Federation, on Monday, in Enugu, declared the secession of the ‘Republic of Biafra’ from Nigeria.

These viral photos show Delta state-based pastor, Prophet-Mezziah Mrakpor II and members of his church worshiping in their waterlogged church over the weekend. Sharing the photos online on his page, the clergyman wrote 

At the moment, there’s an on-going court case between Nigerian Senate President, Bukola Saraki and Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore which led to a court ruling to feeze the accounts of Sowore.

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has declared that the evidence of corruption against his predecessor now Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, is so overwhelming that the Minister of Transportation admitted to them publicly, a statement by Simeon Nwakaudu, his Special Assistant on Electronic Media says.

The UN has allocated over $10.5 million to help thousands of vulnerable in need of life-saving humanitarian assistance in the devastated Nigeria’s northeast.

Mr Noel Ailewon, Plateau Controller of Prisons on Monday said no fewer than 300 prisoners were being trained on vocational skills across prison formations in Plateau.