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The attackers are Boko Haram insurgents and 64 of its members who were inmates in the facility cannot be found Nigeria’s minister of defence, Bashir Magashi, says all Boko Haram suspects in the Abuja Kuje prison have escaped following the Tuesday night attack. The minister spoke on Wednesday at a media briefing at the facility in Abuja. Gunmen had attacked the prison with explosives...

From exploring financial technology (fintech) to fish farming, these youngsters made their way to the list of world billionaires. These 12 youngest billionaires who live across the globe are not older than 30 years old. The oldest among the world's youngest billionaires are two 30-year-old men from the Asian continent. The youngest in the category is a 19-year-old German. From exploring financial technology...

Agency Report Nigerians have written to interior minister Rauf Aregbesola to decry the scarcity of passport booklets in the Nigerian embassy and consulates in the U.S., threatening “grave danger” to diplomats and other workers. “If this shortage of passport booklets should continue, we are afraid that the safety of the consulate officials as well as the Nigeria House, New York and other...

Kyari is standing trial for allegedly dealing in cocaine alongside four members of his former police unit, the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Unit (IRT) Most of the 700 inmates at the Kuje correctional facility in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory have reportedly escaped. Other inmates, including the suspended deputy commissioner of police, Abba Kyari, who was remanded at the prison...

“There is a scammer in town. Peter Obi is a scamming people with lies and people are believing him…” The ex-militant Founder of Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, Asari Dokubo, has said Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, is defrauding Nigerians with lies. Dokubo who stated this on Tuesday in a video on Facebook via his Dokubo...

Abubakar and his company are being prosecuted by the EFCC on charges of falsely obtaining money under the fuel subsidy regime The chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, has revealed how Abubakar Peters and his company, Nadabo Energy Limited, allegedly defrauded the federal government of 8 million litres of petrol under the fuel subsidy regime. The EFCC boss...

Late Tuesday night, a group of terrorists attacked the Kuje Medium Custodial Centre in Abuja, the nation’s capital with bombs. The attack was hinged on an apparent move to gain entry into the facility and free some of its members. Around 10: 25 pm, a high-caliber bomb was first released by the terrorists followed by second and third blasts as well as sporadic...

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has admitted that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari believes that doing away with fuel subsidy removal could trigger chaos and instability in the country. “When you consider the chaos, the social disharmony and…instability such an action (of abolishing subsidies) would facilitate, is it worth it? I don’t think so,” the...

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The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has detained one Temitope Banjoko, a supreme court contractor, over allegations of money laundering. According to a report by TheCable, Banjoko, who is currently being detained at the ICPC facility, is the managing director of Asbat Construction Limited. The construction company was said to have been awarded a contract worth N46,305,000...