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‘Our guns were no match for theirs’ — soldier speaks on Kuje prison attack

No resident in Kuje expected that as the sun in the area council dropped over the hazy horizon and twilight slithered over the sky to usher in the night,...

PHOTOS: Senate panel, David Mark in UK court for Ekweremadu’s ‘organ harvest’ case

The senate committee on foreign affairs is at the Westminster court in the UK for the trial of Ike Ekweremadu, former deputy president of the senate, who is involved...

Report: FG’s refusal to swap arrested insurgents with Kaduna-train captives reason for Kuje attack

The Kuje correctional facility was attacked reportedly because the federal government refused to swap imprisoned insurgents with kidnapped Kaduna-train passengers. Gunmen had attacked the Kuje prison facility in the...

Kuje prison invaded by same group who attacked Abuja-Kaduna train, says Gumi’s aide

Tukur Mamu, aide to Ahmad Gumi, an Islamic cleric, says those behind the invasion of the Kuje correctional facility are same as the perpetrators of the Abuja-Kaduna train attack....

Court asked to stop APC placeholder’s replacement as Tinubu’s running mate

Zakari Maigari and Zubainatu Mohammed, delegates to the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential convention, have asked a federal high court in Abuja to stop the replacement of Kabiru Masari...

Boris Johnson to resign as UK prime minister

Boris Johnson, UK prime minister, will resign on Thursday following pressure from members of his government. A number of ministers had resigned from the government, citing a loss of...

LIVE: Ekweremadu on trial over alleged organ harvesting

NGF: States in fiscal stress… petrol subsidy affecting payment of salaries

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) says petrol subsidy is causing states to experience fiscal stress and impacting salaries. The NGF said this in a memo forwarded to Abdulkadir Abdullahi,...