The police confirmed the kidnap of the Niger commissioner. The Niger State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mohammed Idris, was on Sunday kidnapped by gunmen at Baban Tunga village of Tarfa Local Government Area of the state.The Secretary to the State Government, Ahmed Matane, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in a telephone interview on Monday. Mr Matane …

The planned sit-at-home ordered by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, scheduled to have commenced tomorrow, Monday, has been suspended due to the National Examination Council, NECO, examination for junior secondary schools. IPOB stated that a new date for the commencement of the sit-at-home order would be announced later. The pro-Biafra group had a penultimate week, in what appeared to …

The Senate on Sunday said its Committee on Constitution Review did not propose creation of additional 20 states to the existing 36. Rather, the upper chamber said that such requests for creation of more states were only referred by the committee to the electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure compliance with provisions of section 8 of …