Leader of the proscribe Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has engaged a popular constitutional lawyer and human rights activist, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), as the lead counsel representing him. This is coming as the federal government has filed a fresh charge bordering on alleged terrorism against Kanu. The development was confirmed by the former lead counsel, Ifeanyi Ejiofor to reporters Tuesday morning at the federal high court where Kanu is expected to be arraigned today for continuation of his trial.

Terrorists have slammed N24 million levies on nine communities in Bukkuyum Local Government Area of Zamfara State and demanded prompt payment or face assaults. The levied communities include Gaude, Tungar Gebe, Wawan Iccen Ibrahim, Wawan Iccen Salihu, Galle, Nannarki, Ruwan Kura, Gangara and Yargalma. Findings gathered that the affected communities have started mobilising to pay the bandits, even as locals said letters to that effect have since reached the affected communities through kidnap victims who regained freedom.

The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola ordered officials of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCOs) to shoot dead anybody attempting to attack any correctional center in the country.

The Supreme Court has reversed its prior decision which dismissed an appeal by Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) against a N2.4 billion judgment given in favour of Innoson Motors Nigeria Limited by the Court of Appeal in Ibadan, Oyo State. A judgment by Justice Olukayode Ariwoola held unanimously that the Supreme Court erred when, in a ruling on February 27, 2019, it erroneously dismissed the appeal marked: SC/694/2014 filed by GTB. The apex court held that it was misled by its Registry, which failed to promptly bring to the notice of the panel that sat on the case on Feb. 27, 2019 that GTB had already filed its appellant’s brief of argument. The judgment was on an application by the bank seeking the re-listing of the appeal on the grounds that it was incorrectly dismissed. The Supreme Court noted that had the panel that sat on the case on February 27, 2019 been notified of the existence of the appellant’s brief of argument, it would not have discharged GTB’s appeal for lack of diligent prosecution.

The Commandant General (CG) of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Dr. Ahmed Abubakar Audi has disbanded the anti-vandal unit of the Rivers State Command.

Ahead of the anniversary of the Armed Forces Remembrance Day on Saturday, 15th January, 2022, the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Lucky Irabor has declared that the military’s unflinching loyalty and subordination to democratic tenets in the Country should eliminate any doubt in the minds of Nigerians that democracy has come to stay. Irabor made the statement during an interview on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme. “Today, I believe that Nigerians are no longer in doubt as to the subordination of the military to the democratic rule which has been sustained since 1999. I believe that no one is in doubt that democracy has come to stay, I believe that no one is in doubt ay longer that the current military leadership, and of course, since democratisation in 1999, that the military is well focused to perform its constitutional roles.”