Some Batch B Stream 1 National Youth Service Corps Members who completed their one year compulsory youth service programme in the Federal Capital Territory on Thursdays (yesterday) are now stranded in the nation's capital following reported delay by the management of the scheme to pay them their allowance to enable them travel back to their various states of origin or resident.

The Senate has threatened to issue arrest warrant against the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Ibrahim Idris, for failing to appear before its ad-hoc committee investigating allegations of abuse of office against him. The Chairman of the ad-hoc committee, Sen. Francis Alimikhena, issued the threat when the IGP failed to appear before the committee on Wednesday.

The Federal Government says it working on an agreement to recover $321million in collaboration with the Swiss government. The Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), disclosed this to State House correspondents at the end of a meeting of the council presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The former governor of Zamfara State, Alhaji Mahmuda Shinkafi has picked the All Progressives Congress (APC) party’s membership card at the party’s secretariat in Gusau, the state capital.

The event took place on Thursday before a large crowd of supporters.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has raised the alarm over an alleged plot to frame its Acting Chairman, Mr Ibrahim Magu, with ownership of assets abroad.

Spokesman for the commission, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, said in a statement on Wednesday that “shadowy interests at the receiving end” of the agency’s anti-corruption campaign were behind the alleged scheme.

The Department of State Services (DSS) has finally produced the detained former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, in court.

This is in compliance with an order of the Federal High Court in Abuja, that the ex-NSA should appear as a witness in the ongoing trial of a former Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Olisa Metuh.