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President Muhammadu Buhari is currently holding a closed-door meeting with security chiefs in the country. The meeting is coming barely 24-hours after Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe called for the resignation of Buhari over rising insecurity in the country. But firing back at the lawmaker, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said there was no basis for Buhari to resign. “Just because some characters think that President Buhari should resign, then they expect him to quit. “That call does not represent the opinion of the country. This is the opinion of an armchair critic, known for making stray comments,” Shehu said. Present at the meeting holding at the State House in Abuja are Chief of Defense Staff, General Gabriel Olonisakin; Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai; Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok Ekwe Ibas; Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Sadique Abubakar; Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu; Director-General of

The Nigerian Government says it will finance the construction of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Abuja-Kano Expressway, and the Second Niger Bridge with the funds recovered from former military Head of State, Sani Abacha, James Ibori, Diezani Allison-Madueke, and Kola Aluko among others.  The  Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, said this after the Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday. Malami said the government was ready to repatriate an additional $321m (N116.04bn) looted by the late former military Head of State. He said the MoU expected to be signed next week would also cover assets or funds recovered from James Ibori, Diezani Allison-Madueke, and Kola Aluko among others.  He said, “It is in line with that spirit of aggressive recovery of looted assets that the office of attorney general has been pursuing the recovery of looted assets. We have overtime been discussing with other jurisdictions including the Island of Jersey and

The meeting kicked off at 10:00 am with the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo in attendance. Also in attendance is the Chief of Defence Staff, Service Chiefs, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Chief of Staff to the President, Ministers of Interiors, Defence and the Heads of the DSS, NIA and the DMI. The issues to be discussed at the meeting may not be far from the rising security concerns across the country. The Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Samson Ayokunle, and lawmakers are among those that have called for the removal of service chiefs in recent weeks. Some senators on Thursday asked President Buhari to   sack   the Service Chiefs and also called for the resignation of the IGP, Mohammed Adamu. The lawmakers made the demands in their respective contributions to the discussion on the security situation in the country during plenary yesterday. Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe in his contribution called for the   resignation of Presid

Senator Abaribe made the call while lawmakers were discussing a motion on national security challenges and calls for restructuring in plenary on Wednesday. He explained that his call for the President to resign was because he had failed to solve the security challenges in the country, years after Nigerians voted the APC government into power to address it along with the power challenges in the country. Meanwhile, some other senators have called for the resignation of the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, and urged President Buhari to remove the service chiefs as they do not have any new ideas in fighting insecurity in the country. They also condemned the abduction and killings of Nigerians in Plateau State and warned against diving the people along ethnic-religious lines. Senator Istifanus Gyang, who moved a motion earlier while relying on order 42 and 52 of Senate Standing Rules, revealed that a total of 27 people were killed on Tuesday in renewed a

The comments from the current and former officials come hours after Trump, in a series of tweets on Saturday, threatened to attack 52 Iranian sites -- including cultural ones -- should the country respond with military force to a US strike in Iraq last week that killed Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani and several others. The pointed threat by the President has been met with criticism as it's highly unusual for the US to target cultural rather than military sites, with some critics suggesting such action may violate international law. Among those critics was Colin Kahl, former deputy assistant to President Barack Obama and national security adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, who tweeted on Saturday that targeting such sites would be "a war crime" and that he finds it "hard to believe the Pentagon would provide Trump targeting options that include" them. The White House did not return a request for comment Saturday evening for details regarding

Machine-gun wielding jihadists killed four Nigerian soldiers and wounded 11 more during an attack on an army base in the northeast, military officials told AFP on Sunday.  Fighters from the Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) arrived in six trucks to attack the Jakana base, near the city of Maiduguri, on Saturday evening, according to the officials.  The troops forced the jihadists to retreat after a prolonged gunfight. In recent weeks, ISWAP, an off-shoot of regional jihadist group Boko Haram, has intensified attacks in the region, targeting soldiers but also mounting fake checkpoints, killing and abducting civilians.  The decade-long insurgency in northeast Nigeria has killed 36,000 people, according to the UN and displaced a further two million. The conflict has spilt into Niger, Cameroon and Chad — prompting them to set up a joint military force to combat the threat.  Some 1,200 Chadian soldiers returned to Chad this week after a months-long deployment in Nigeria,

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, on Sunday denied links with a former Senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, who is being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for alleged extortion. The complainant, Alhaji Sani Dauda, who reported Sani to the EFCC had reportedly claimed in his petition that the former senator demanded N4m from him to give to the CJN and other four judges to influence some pending cases in court. But the CJN, through a statement by the Supreme Court’s Director, Press and Information, Dr. Festus Akande, described the claim as a blatant lie. The statement titled, ‘Senator Shehu Sani is not known to the CJN’, read in part, “Even though the veracity of the true source of the unsubstantiated statement has not yet been ascertained to know if it was really from the former Senator, it is, however imperative to keep the records straight by letting the public know that Justice Tanko Muhammad has never, in his entire