The 48-year-old drug kingpin, Charles Uwagbale, had recruited Uju Dominic, 35, from his base in Italy with a deal to come to Nigeria, ingest 100 pellets and return to Italy.

“About 70 to 75 per cent of the rural population in the North-west are financially excluded completely… They do not even have a bank account so who are you transferring the money to?”

More than 300 persons have been killed in Mangu LGA and the neighboring communities in the last two months following a series of attacks by gunmen.

Governors included those of Kwara, Gombe, Yobe, Ogun, Niger, Bauchi, Abia, Lagos and Katsina States alongside National Security Adviser Malam Nuhu Ribadu.

“There will be a new demonstration next Wednesday,” Dennis Onyango, spokesman for veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga, told AFP.

She is being arraigned for financial misappropriation while she served as minister during the former President Goodluck Jonathan administration.

He said a change in tactics is necessary because the battle is against a “mobile and elusive irregular force” that disregards established rules of warfare.

At least 290 senior Military officers are set to graduate.

The conference would help identify vulnerabilities and support the government to curtail insecurity with new ideas that would help improve security in Africa.

“These observations have been made by various speakers in this session, and there are several causes for this challenge,” he said.

N907bn shared among tiers of government, N790bn saved, deployment of CNG vehicles for public transportation endorsed, FG to distribute 252,000 tonnes of grains to states.

Soludo said it’s not possible to digitally transfer money to the poorest of the poor, the majority of whom are unbankable.

He expressed concern on the state of the Nigerian judiciary. “It has been compromised to an extent almost beyond redemption,” he said.

He suggested that government improve transportation and also switch to gas for energy.

Kanu’s lawyer claims his health has greatly deteriorated.

It labelled the rumour “falsehood from the pit of hell”.

Authorities said the explosion ripped highways and flipped more than 20 automobiles in South Africa’s largest city.

The body said NATURCOLD contains 28.6% of Diethylene glycol but the acceptable limit is 0.10%.

NEC is made up of the 36 governors of the federation, the CBN Governor, NNPC CEO among others.

The prosecution said the defendants, who escaped from the country, were subsequently apprehended with the help of Interpol.