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The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), a new militant group that has claimed responsibility for a recent series of attacks on oil and gas facilities across the Niger Delta, have denied reports that they entered into a ceasefire agreement with the Federal Government.

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Kpotun Idris, as the Acting Inspector-General of Police.

  The Presidency has dismissed as laughable the desperate attempt by Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State to link President Buhari’s wife, Aisha, to US Congressman William Jefferson’s bribery scandal for which the American lawmaker was convicted in 2009.

Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, has directed the chief medical directors and medical director of federal tertiary hospitals to fill the vacancies created by resident doctors who have “abandoned” their training programme by refusing to report for work.

The Senate, on Monday, commenced investigation into how N120 billion government intervention fund released to the aviation industry in 2011, vanished. The money was released by the Central Bank of Nigeria, as part of a N500 billion intervention fund, the acting director, development and finance at the bank, Mudashiru Olaitan said. Other beneficiaries of the N500billion fund were the Ministry of Power, and the agency in charge of small and medium scale enterprises, Mr. Olaitan said.

Dr. Afolabi Akinkunmi (NARD President LUTH) The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) commenced a nationwide strike from midnight, its President, Dr Mohammed Askira, said in a statement issued on Monday in Abuja. 

A controversial statement attributed to Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, claims  Aisha Buhari was involved in the messy bribery scandal involving U.S. Congressman, Williams Jefferson. Mr. Fayose distributed a link to the U.S. Department of Justice Web site holding court documents where Mrs. Buhari was alleged to have transferred suspicious funds to a convicted former American congressman, Williams Jefferson.

The anticipated arraignment of the Bukola Sarakim Ike Ekweremadu and others for their alleged complicity in the forgery of the 2015 Senate Standing Rules that brought them into office may not hold today as planned. Sources in the Federal Ministry of Justice told SaharaReporters today that the arraignment has been scheduled for today, but all enquiries made at Court 32 of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) high court, Abuja where the case has been assigned revealed that the necessary documents have not been served on all the defendants as required by law.

    A source at t he Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have revealed that a personal account at the Zenith Bank of Nigeria of Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, was frozen in connection with over N1.2billion he took in 2014 from the disgraced National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki, to prosecute his re-election as governor. Several of the operatives said the action came at the end of agency’s year-long investigation into the matter.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has said that it will launch a probe into the activities of the 38 soldiers who were compulsorily retired by the Nigerian Army. The soldiers were retired last week by the military authorities following allegation of fraud in the arms deal. A human rights group, Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Advocacy Centre, protested to the headquarters of the commission yesterday in Abuja, demanding the probe of the soldiers. The chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, told the protesters that his office would look into their demands.

The Federal High Court, Lagos Division has frozen all the assets of businessman Jimoh Ibrahim, as well as his NICON Investment Limited and Global Fleet Oil and Gas Limited. Justice Saliu Saidu issued the interim injunction in response to an application by Mr. Yusuf Ali, counsel to the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) on June 14th, and it will stay in place until all the issues concerning their indebtedness to AMCON are determined.