Federal Government of Nigeria will recruit 6000 personnel for the Nigerian Prison Service to address manpower shortage, Minister of Interior, Lt-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd), said on Monday. Dambazau dropped the hint in Minna during an on-the-spot assessment of the damages recorded due to Sunday’s jailbreak at the Medium Security Prison in Minna that left a prison official and a motorcyclist dead.

The Presidency on Sunday said the All Progressives Congress-led Administration has created over six million jobs in the past three years, contrary to false reports peddled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu who stated this on Sunday night while speaking at a crossfire with the spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan,

The Nigerian Police has invited Senate President Bukola Saraki to answer allegations surrounding his link to the armed robbery which recently occurred in Offa, Kwara State. This was after the Senate President was mentioned by five of the suspects who confessed to the crime. The Police Spokesperson in a statement on Sunday said the bank robbery led to the death of 33 persons including some pregnant women and nice police officers.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has accused the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose of complicity in the shooting incident that nearly claimed the life of Opeyemi Bamidele, a former member of the House of Representatives. The party in a statement issued on Sunday by the State Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun,

A Civil Society Organization, Campaign for Democracy (CD) on Sunday urged former President Olusegun Obasanjo to refrain from attempting to impose Presidential candidate on Nigerians, as the era of such imposition was gone. The advocacy group in a statement released by its Publicity Secretary, Ifeanyi Odili said Obasanjo who had served this country in various capacities at different times should leave the stage for the younger generation to determine the future of the nation.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti on Saturday said it had suspended its gubernatorial campaign earlier scheduled to take off on Monday, June 4. The suspension came as the police command in the state released the report of Friday’s shooting incident at the APC rally organised to welcome back to the state its flagbearer in the July 14 governorship election, Dr Kayode Fayemi.