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The Nigerian Army has killed some Boko Haram terrorists, who ambushed troops along the Maiduguri-Bama axis of Borno State at about 11am on Sunday.

Over 200 communities in about 10 Local Government Areas in the state have been ravaged by serious flood, rendering residents homeless and destroying properties worth millions of naira. Here are photos from the flood scenes below.

  The trial of alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike popularly known as Evans, took a new twist today Tuesday September 12th after the suspect denied ever making any statement to the police, confessing to be a serial kidnapper. At the resumed hearing of his trial at the Ikeja High Court, Evans through his counsel, Chino Obiagu, made the denial following an attempt by the State Prosecuting Counsel, Adebayo Haroun, to tender documents containing the statement of the 1st defendant (Evans) as exhibits before Justice Hakeem Oshodi. Evans, through Obiagu, said the purported statement was not written by him neither was it voluntarily made as claimed by the police. The five suspected members of his gang namely: Uchenna Amadi, Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu, Ogechi Uchechukwu (the only female among the gang) and two Ex-Army officers, Chilaka Ifeanyi and Victor Chukwunonso Aduba, who are also standing trial with him, denied ever making any statement to the police. T

Prof. Danladi Matawal, Director-General, Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute (NIBRRI) has warned the nation not to take any tremors for granted. Matawal, in a statement he signed on Monday, in Abuja said that there was need to search immediately where the recent tremors in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) were coming from. He further advised the nation to design a set of actions to mitigate the tremors’ effect if it was man-made or artificial, whether from deep explosives or mining. “Are we constructing a tunnel in Abuja? Then the explosive waves must be attenuated and dumped at the source of the explosion. “City residents also need to be warned and trained on responses to such an impending disturbance. “If natural, then we should prepare for evacuation because major earth tectonic activities are always preceded pre shocks and minor tremors due to the straining and splitting of pieces of plates near the epicentre.

Earlier today, there was an explosion at the Natson Filling Station, located opposite Police Clinic, Jos road, Lafia, in Nasarawa State. A number of persons were killed in the unfortunate incident. More graphic photos below. At least two people have been killed and 30 injured at an explosion at a gas station in Lafia Nasarawa this morning. The cause of the blast is not yet known but eyewitnesses say a gas canister blew up nearby. — Mayeni Jones (@MayeniJones) September 10, 2018

Veteran Yoruba  actor, Babatunde Omidina , popularly known as Baba Suwe , has revealed that the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has not paid him the N25 million, which the Lagos High Court had ordered to be paid as compensation. Baba Suwe in an interview with Punch, disclosed that since the death of his lawyer.  Bamidele Aturu , the case has “practically been forgotten". In 2011, the actor was arrested by NDLEA at Murtala Mohammed International Airport over the suspicion that he was trafficking drugs.Upon his arrest, he was in the custody of the NDLEA for three weeks, and after several searches, no drugs weres found. In the interview, Baba Suwe said “I have never gotten a kobo from them. The case has practically been forgotten after my lawyer, Bamidele Aturu, died. Aturu was determined to see the case to a conclusion. When he first took on the case, he called me aside and asked me to confess to him if I really committed the crime.

Senate president, Bukola Saraki, says he is in the running to become Nigeria's president in 2019 so he can fight for the rights of Nigerians. According to him, his presidential ambition is not in anyway personal Saraki said this yesterday in Enugu state where he went to consult with PDP members in the state ahead of the party presidential primaries in October. ''It takes a politician who knows the problems of the masses to bring solution and unity to the people. I am here to tell you that we have a project. The country is not as it was three years ago. We are all concerned about the insecurity in the land, the unemployment and hunger in the country. Many youths today do not have any job and the future is not okay for them and we do not have time to continue to wait and things continue to deteriorate.” 'For me and us in the national assembly, it is not for personal ambition, we have continued to fight for the right of the people, for ju