The special brigade of the Nigerian Army (NA) has eliminated several Lakurawa bandits and destroyed about 22 camps in Sokoto and Kebbi states which was disclosed on Friday to news correspondents in Sokoto state by military authorities.

A Federal Capital Territory High Court, sitting in Abuja has today, remanded the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello in kuje correctional centre after denying his bail pending his next trial. The presiding judge, Justice Maryann Anenih adjourned the hearing in Bello’s case of N110 billion money laundering charges brought against Bello by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to January 29 and 30 and February 25 and 27, 2027, for hearing.

Human rights lawyer and activist, Dele Farotimi, has been granted bail by an Ekiti State magistrates’ court for the sum of N50 million, with a surety in like sum. As part of the bail condition, the court said the surety must own landed property while the matter was adjourned to January 29, 2025, for further proceedings.