The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Christopher Musa, says troops have eliminated deputies of Bello Turji, a notorious bandit kingpin in Zamfara state.

The Senate has yesterday granted President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s request to terminate the appointments of the Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) in charge of Abia, Adamawa and Sokoto, states. The affected RECs include; Dr. Nura Ali (Sokoto), Hudu Yunusa Ari (Adamawa State), and Prof. Ikemefuna Chijioke Uzochukwu (Abia).

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, has yesterday, affirmed the proscription of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its designation as a terrorist organisation. IPOB is a separatist group championing agitation for an independent state of Biafra which it wants carved out from the south-east and some parts of south-south Nigeria.

The Department of State Services, DSS, has successfully apprehended a suspected fleeing gunrunner tracked from Niger Republic to Zamfara State.

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, has pronounced the Lakurawa sect a terrorist organisation and proscribed its existence across the country.

The Court of Appeal in Akure, the Ondo State capital has affirmed the death sentence of a popular hotel owner, Dr Ramon Adedoyin, who was found guilty in the murder case of Timothy Adegoke, an ex-Master’s student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.