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The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, ordered all Zonal Commanders and Commissioners of Police to ensure all-day round security surveillance around places of worship and strategic points around the country this yuletide. Idris also called on officers on federal highways to allow free flow of traffic by avoiding unnecessary delay of road users. In a statement released on Friday by the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Don Awunah, he said the police had put in place “robust and elaborate security arrangement and crime prevention strategies to ensure crime free Christmas celebration nationwide.” The statement also revealed that specialized units had…

The UN Security Council has repudiated a US-drafted resolution on arms embargo and sanctions on South Sudan. The world youngest nation is now in its fourth year of war, says Africa Review. The measure garnered only seven votes in favour in the 15-member council, while eight countries including Russia, China and Japan abstained. Nine votes and no veto are required for resolutions to be adopted in the council. The US, backed by Britain and France, had argued that cutting off the arms flow was urgently needed following UN warnings of a risk of mass atrocities. But Russia, China, Japan, Malaysia,…

Recession breeds idea and that is what has happened this Christmas in Osun State, southwest Nigeria when the paramilitary choir put together a Xmas song. Coined from the popular Feliz Navidad, the choir introduce a local tune to the widely known Italian song. The composition was done by the Nigerian Police, the Nigerian Immigration Service, the Civil Defence, the Prisons Service, the Federal Road Safety Commission, the Air Force, Navy. It is surely an unusual Xmas Song. The collaboration, which results in a danceable song, was done under the aegis of Joint Para-military Choir in the State. It is a…

The pioneer Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Nuhu Ribadu has been listed as a key witness against a former Governor of Delta State, Mr. James Ibori, who the Federal Government is attempting to repatriate from the United Kingdom. Ribadu had in an affidavit accused Ibori of giving him $15m in 2007 so that the EFCC boss would not initiate a case against him. After receiving the cash, however, Ribadu entered it into evidence after which it was kept in the vault of the Central Bank of Nigeria. Ribadu had said, “Ibori approached me with $15m to stop…

Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers has decried accusations that he sponsored anyone to protest against the Federal Government. He made it known that those who planned to protest in his favour must have taken a cue from those who protested against him in Abuja. Wike stated this when he granted audience to the Rivers State Elders Council of Ministers (RISECOM), in Port Harcourt on Friday. “If they like, let them bring all manner of accusations daily, it will not cow me. Three days ago, they sponsored protests against me in Abuja with the police leading the protesters. “It is so…

England and Manchester United forward Wayne Rooney, 31, will be offered £700,000 a week by two Chinese Super League clubs to join them next summer.(Daily Mirror) Southampton value their Netherlands defender Virgil van Dijk at £60m but have no plans to sell the 25-year-old in the January transfer window. (Telegraph) Liverpool, Manchester City and Manchester United have been linked with Van Dijk, but Saints say the trio can challenge for his signature in three years. (Sun) New Crystal Palace manager Sam Allardyce will receive a £4m bonus if he keeps the club in the Premier League. (Daily Mail) Former England…

Residents of Lagos State on Thursday besieged the various sale centres across the State to buy the much-anticipated LAKE RICE, with vast majority of the people lauding the initiative of government to introduce the commodity at a critical time of the Yuletide season. LAKE RICE, which is locally produced, came into being following a partnership between Lagos State and Kebbi State, and was aimed at ensuring food security as well as to showcase the ability of Nigeriato become a producing nation. Governor Akinwunmi Ambode and his Kebbi State counterpart, Alhaji Atiku Bagudu had launched the rice on Wednesday in Lagos,…

The Berlin market attack suspect, Anis Amri has been shot dead by police in Milan, Italy’s interior minister says. The man, who opened fire on police who asked him for ID during a routine patrol in the Sesto San Giovanni area in the early hours of Friday morning, was “without a shadow of a doubt” Anis Amri, Marco Minetti said. One police officer was injured in the shootout. Germany has been on high alert after the attack which left 49 injured. Separately, police arrested two people in the German city of Oberhausen on suspicion of planning an attack. The fingerprints…

Top Nigerian Artistes have shunned the 2016 Headies Award. Nollywood actress, Adesua Etomi, and artiste, Falz, anchored the award show, which ended end in the early hours of Friday. The show, which was held at Eko Convention Center, Victoria Island, Lagos, saw Kiss Daniel clinch three awards out of the five categories he was nominated in. Wizkid won the Artist of the Year award at The Headies 2016. Notable absentees were the entire members of Mavin Records and YBNL Records, led by Don Jazzy and Olamide respectively. Don Jazzy and Olamide had a bitter spat at the previous edition. Their…

On Thursday, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo launched and rolled out Digital Switch Over (DSO) on behalf of President Muhammadu Buhari. The project is spearheaded by the Ministry of Information and Culture and the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). Buhari said Nigeria is “irreversibly committed’’ to meeting the June 2017 deadline for transition from analogue to digital television broadcasting. The June 17, 2017 deadline for transition from analogue to digital television broadcasting in West African countries was set by the World International Telecommunication Union Council. Buhari, said that with DSO, the country stood at the threshold of exciting time for free TV…