The police in Kaduna on Sunday said that they had beefed up security ahead of today’s ruling  of the application filed by the embattled leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Ibraheem El-Zakzaky. justice  Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court will  rule on the application  filed by  El-Zakzaky, who is seeking  permission to travel abroad for medical treatment. The bail hearing comes barely three days after a Federal High Court in Abuja granted the Federal Government the power to proscribe the Shi’ittes’ organisation The Shi’ittes’ protests in Abuja had been  violent. They had also resulted  in the death of a police officer and a National Youth Scheme Corps member, Precious Owolabi. On Sunday,  the Kaduna State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Yakubu Sabo,  assured the people of the state that adequate security had been put in place for hitch-free court appearance. The spokesman, who spoke to one of our...

The Benue State Government announced on Wednesday that it had commenced the evacuation of Benue State students at the Federal University, Wukari in Taraba. The evacuation followed the closure of the university after the alleged killing of two Benue students in the institution on July 30 by people suspected to be members of the Jukun militia. reports shows that hundreds of people have been killed over the years in recurring communal clashes between ethnic Jukun and Tivs in the agricultural belt of Northern Nigeria  The bloody conflict has taken its toll on the two ethnic groups with many lives lost and property estimated at millions of naira destroyed. Speaking in a telephone interview with a NAN correspondent in Makurdi on Wednesday, the Benue Commissioner for Education, Prof. Dennis Ityavyar, said the evacuation of the students was due to the closure of the university. He said that relevant security operatives and the government of Taraba had been notified about the ev...

The police in Lagos have arrested a 28-year-old teacher, Idowu Daniel, at a private school in the Abule-Egba area of the state for allegedly having sex with a female pupil in his care. Daniel, who teaches computer science at Anatasia Comprehensive College, reportedly raped the 17-year-old pupil inside the school’s biology laboratory.  City Round learnt that Daniel had asked the pupil to bring her computer science note to him at the laboratory for marking. On getting there, the teacher reportedly made overtures to her and fondled her breasts. She was said to have resisted the advances and left. The following day, Friday, June 28, 2019, Daniel was said to have sent for the pupil again, asking her to come to the laboratory with her note. He reportedly shut the door and forcefully had sex with her. Three days after, on a Monday, our correspondent learnt that Daniel called the girl into the laboratory again and told her that she did not do well in computer science and mathema...

The Federal Government has obtained a court order to proscribe the  Shiites’ organisation formally referred to as the Islamic Movement in Nigeria. The Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday ordered the proscription of the Shiites’ movement as protests by the Islamic organisation rock Abuja. it was reported that Justice Nkeonye Maha issued the order in a ruling in which  she also designated the activities of the Shiite organisation in any part of Nigeria “as acts of terrorism and illegality.” The court restrained “any person or group of persons” from participating in any form of activities involving or concerning the IMN “under any name or platform” in Nigeria. To complete the process of the proscription of the group, the court ordered the Attorney-General of the Federation “to publish the order proscribing the respondent (Islamic Movement in Nigeria) in the official gazette and two national dailies. The judge gave the order following an ex parte application by the F...

Nigeria's federal government and the NGF have proposed to recruit N-Power cadets or youth corps members as police personnel - The recruitment will be done in efforts to boost the manpower of the Nigeria Police Force - According to the report, the FG and governors believe that the ongoing recruitment of 10,000 policemen to tackle the dearth of security agents in the country was inadequate State governors have enjoined the federal government to recruit more police personnel in addition to the ongoing 10,000 police recruitment exercise to check insecurity in the country. The chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) and Gov. of Ekiti, Dr Kayode Fayemi made this known at the end of a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, Abuja, on Friday, July 5. He disclosed that he briefed the president on the outcome of the security committee of the National Economic Council, adding that the committee reviewed security challenges facing the nation. According to h...