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Persons suspected to be Boko Haram insurgents have blown up a market and a police station in Kuje Area Council of Abuja. The insurgents struck Friday evening, killing a yet unknown number of people and wounding even more. The Commissioner of Police for the Federal Capital Territory, Wilson Inalegu, confirmed the attack to D2session on the telephone. Mr. Inalegu, who said he was already at the scene of the bomb blast, however, could not speak on the number of fatalities so far recorded. “I am already at the scene of the bomb blast but cannot tell you anything now,” he said. Details later …

Nigerian lawmakers are stepping up the pressure on the federal government and President Muhammadu Buhari to promptly release all funds earmarked for their “constituency projects” in 2014, in addition to new allocations for the same projects in 2015, PREMIUM TIMES can report today. Ministry of Finance officials fear the money could be misused and are cautious in dealing with the lawmakers, who they believe are cash-strapped as they have yet to reap a major windfall since their elections in March.

The atmosphere at Badia East, a slum community in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, on Thursday, September 24, the day of the 2015 Muslim Eid-el-Kabir festival, was anything but celebratory. The community looked like it had been ravaged by hurricane. People wore long and sullen faces as they cuddled under whatever makeshift structure they could build from the rubble of their homes that were demolished a week before.

President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in New York called on the international community to urgently redouble its efforts to strengthen mechanisms for dismantling safe havens for proceeds of corruption. Addressing world leaders at the 70th General Assembly of the United Nations, President Buhari also urged his counterparts to do more to return stolen funds and assets to their countries of origin.

The Nigerian Army on Friday raised alarm over plans by “some highly-placed individuals” in the North East, particularly Borno State, to sabotage military operations in the region. A statement by the army spokesman, Sani Usman, said the elite were bent on having the activities of the Boko Haram terrorists prolonged for their selfish interests.

The Nigerian Army on Thursday said it had uncovered and dismantled a well concealed fuel depot belonging to the extremist Boko Haram sect. The spokesperson for the army, Sani Usman, said this in a statement send on Thursday.

The Nigeria police has given insight into how a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Olu Falae, was rescued by its personnel, in an operation it said was coordinated by Inspector General Solomon Arase. Mr. Falae was abducted by unknown gunmen at his farm in Akure, the Ondo state capital, on Monday.