Editorial

The International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, has called on the Nigerian military authorities to deal humanely with the suspects who were being detained for alleged links with the Boko Haram terrorist group.

An 85-years old, Salamatu Hassan of Jar-Kuka village in Gezawa Local Government Area of Kano State allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself on the branch of a tree.

Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the federal High Court, Abuja, has asked for an accelerated hearing into his ongoing corruption trial which had earlier been adjourned to January 18.

Following the several cases of suicide bomb attacks that hit the Borno State capital, Maiduguri and its environs on Sunday night, the Nigerian military is warning residents in the state to refrain from opening their doors to strangers.

The secret trial of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indegineous People of Biafra, IPOB, is expected to begin on Tuesday, after Justice Binta Nyako, controversially ruled in favour of an application by the Department of State Security, DSS, that the trial be held behind closed doors.

The Nigerian Police, On Monday, at the Police Headquarters in Abuja, Paraded a gang of six kidnappers that were allegedly responsibly for several high profile kidnappings in Kaduna and other States across the country.