The newly acquired Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Mi-35M helicopter gunships have successfully unleashed their firepower on boko haram Terrorists at a camp, 9.7km South East of Bonne in the on-going OPERATION THUNDER STRIKE. The Director Public Relations and Information, NAF Air Vice Marshal Olatokunbo Adesanya noted that an earlier Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance report had indicated the significant presence of terrorists in the camp, following which Mi-35M helicopter gunships were deployed to attack them on 15 May 2018.

Uche Secondus, national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says Nigeria might go into extinction if the July governorship election in Ekiti state is rigged.

Speaking Thursday at the flag-off of PDP’s local government election campaign in Rivers state, the opposition leader said his party would resist any attempt to thwart the will of the people.

He alleged that the All Progressives Congress (APC) rigged the Kaduna local government election, where his party won four LGAs, while APC swept 14.

Business Mogul and President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, on Thursday visited Former Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (rtd), at his uphill residence in Minna. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Dangote was accompanied by his daughter, Hajiya Halima Dangote and her husband, Alhaji Suleiman Bello and some members of Dangote group.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday described the 2014 governorship election which produced Governor, Ayodele Fayose as full of “hanky-panky” stressing that his administration would not allow any politicians to subvert the will of the people in the forthcoming governorship election billed to hold in the State in July.

The Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission (KADSIEC) has rescheduled council polls in five local government areas of the state for June 2.

This comes as the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) swept 14 out of the 18 chairmanship seats in the already declared results in last Saturday’s local government election, with PDP clinching 4.

An FCT High Court sitting in Maitama on Thursday adjourned indefinitely the trial of Senator Dino Melaye, who is being tried for allegedly giving false information. NAN reports that Melaye, Senator representing Kogi West, was dragged to court on two counts bordering on giving false information, offences he denied committing.