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Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, has accused the President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government of using the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to “persecute” him and members of his cabinet over their refusal to join the All Progressives Congress (APC).  Mohammed spoke on Wednesday at the Bauchi government house after receiving an ambassadorial award for safety from the Institute of Safety Professionals in Nigeria. Recall that on Tuesday, the EFCC arraigned Yakubu Adamu, Bauchi state commissioner for finance, over alleged N5.79 billion money laundering. The Bauchi governor lamented that despite the constitutional immunity, he is being named in the EFCC motion, targeting members of his cabinet. “As a governor, someone who is the head of the opposition, my commissioner has been kept and will not be released by the EFCC,” he said. “Even when I have immunity as a governor, my name was stupendously mentioned in a motion in a court of law in Nigeria: me, Ba...

Since then, Nigeria and the US have engaged in frenetic diplomatic contacts to agree on the framework for the military operations. Both the US Department of War, AFRICOM, and the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs have stated that these strikes were executed in collaboration between Nigeria and the US. In preparation for these strikes, the US has been conducting surveillance flights over Nigeria from Accra, Ghana, since late November. These flights are part of a broader effort to gather intelligence on terrorist groups, including Boko Haram and ISWAP (Islamic State of West Africa Province). Many Nigerians are delighted that President Trump has made good on his promise to intervene and assist Nigeria in fighting terrorism. Speaking on the BBC Friday morning, Nigeria’s Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar stressed that President Bola Tinubu gave the go-ahead for the US strikes. “Now that the US is cooperating, we would do it jointly, and we would ensure, just as the President emph...

In the dead of the night of December 25, the United States launched targeted missile strikes against ISIS terrorists in the Jabo community in Sokoto State, making good on President Donald Trump’s November 1 threat to strike at terrorist camps in the country. Casualty figures are not known as of this hour, but Trump has confirmed in his social media post that the strikes were ‘perfect’. More such strikes are expected to be launched in other parts of northern Nigeria in the weeks and months ahead. The Tomahawk missile, launched from a warship in the Gulf of Guinea, likely travelled over 1,600 kilometres. It is a perfect Christmas gift to the long-suffering Nigerian people who have been victims of terrorism for decades. The action came about two months after the US President had issued threats on November 1 to attack terrorists’ positions in Northern Nigeria if Nigeria had not taken steps to tackle insecurity.