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Senate President, Bukola Saraki The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, pleaded “not guilty” on Tuesday to multiple charges of fraud brought against him by the Code of Conduct Bureau.

Lieutenant General Turuk Burati, the chief of army staff, on Monday, September 21, returned to the issue of the missing Chibok girls rescue. After all the allegations on the matter, the military senior disclosed the likely location of the children when he spoke at the chief of army staff third quarter conference, The Punch reports. Major General Tukur Buratai Buratai, who was upon his appointment directed by President Muhammadu Buhari to eradicate insurgency in the northeast within three months, said there were strong indications the abductees were still held withing Sambisa Forest. He added that their rescue remain the priority in the ongoing offensive against the sect.

Former Military President, Gen Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, has stated that the death of the wife of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Mrs H.I.D Awolowo came to him as a personal loss, saying that the development also truck a sense of nostalgia in him. In a statement personal signed by him and made available to journalists yesterday, Babangida stated that the late matriarch of Awolowo family was a great woman , saying that it was instructive to note that she lived a selfless life.

Former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Tuesday, launched a children’s story book. The book, entitled ‘Peace Story for Children’ was presented to commemorate the 2015 International Day of Peace. According to the ex-leader, he decided to launch the story book to ensure the entrenchment of sustainable peace in the country.

Louis van Gaal and Mick McCarthy face off again when Man Utd host Ipswich When Manchester United host Ipswich Town in the Capital One Cup on Wednesday it marks a rematch for Louis van Gaal and Mick McCarthy. With the help of Niall Quinn, Adam Bate looks back on the day in 2001 when McCarthy’s Ireland got the better of Van Gaal’s Netherlands in World Cup qualifying…

The recently increasing but clearly unprovoked assault on the rights, freedoms and sensibilities of the Igbo people of South-Eastern Nigeria by President Muhammadu Buhari-led government does not only deserve condemnation in the strongest terms, but also, and more importantly, it has come to a point that members of the International Community and all other foreign elements (whom Major General Mahummadu Buhari is always willing to confide in them about what he does here or intends doing for Nigerians,

Prof Soludo Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Professor Charles Soludo, and former Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, were yesterday sighted at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, filling visitors’ forms on their way to the office of Alhaji Abba Kyari, Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari. Soludo entered the Chief of Staff’s office around 5:30p.m., followed by Fayemi about 30 minutes later.

MI Abaga Chocolate City rapper, Jude Abaga popularly called (M.I), yesterday, took a swipe at erstwhile Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, over his statement that should anything happen to the abducted former Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF), and Afenifere chieftain, Chief Olu Falae, the Federal Government will be held responsible and there will be consequences.

Troops loyal to Burkina Faso's interim government told soldiers behind a coup to disarm and surrender by 10 a.m. (1000 GMT) on Tuesday or face attack, a senior loyalist officer said. Soldiers opposed to the rebellion, which was led by ex-spy chief General Gilbert Diendere and the presidential guard, left military bases across the West African nation and converged on the capital on Monday.