Barely one week after the 87th National Executive Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) met to discuss the nullification of the governorship election in Imo State by the Supreme Court that removed Hon. Emeka Ihedioha as governor, it will meet again on Monday to discuss the matter and other issues affecting the party.
In a statement issued wednesday, the National Secretary of the party, Senator Umaru Tsauri, who summoned the NEC meeting, said: “All members of the Peoples Democratic Party National Executive Committee (NEC) are hereby invited to the 88th meeting of the NEC on Monday, January 27, 2020.”…
The suspects were, Wasit Muhammad, a Lebanese, Olatunji Sanusi, a lawyer and one Tunde, while one Joseph also a member of the gang is currently at large.
Reacting to the development through his spokesman, Rafiu Ajakaye in Ilorin Friday, Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq condemned in strong terms the rising trend of human trafficking in the country, describing it as inhuman and unacceptable.
He vowed that anyone caught should face the full weight of the law.
“The governor of Kwara State is horrified by the
Tunde Balogun, Chairman, Lagos State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says the defection of bigwigs from opposition parties to the ruling party in the state is a measure of the growing confidence in APC.
Balagun made the statement on Thursday in Ikeja while formally receiving defectors from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and other opposition parties in the state into APC.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Sen. Adeseye Ogunlewe, a former Minister of Works, who had earlier in the year announced his exit from PDP, and his son, Moyosore, were among defectors formally received …
The National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) on Friday destroyed unclassified and other prohibited films and videos.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the officials of the NFVCB, Nigeria Police Force and the Federal Fire Service were among stakeholders present at the exercise, which was held in Abuja.
The items destroyed included DVDs, CDs, copies of 20 in 1 video films, unclassified foreign and local films, as well as pornographic materials.
Mr Adedayo Thomas, Executive Director of the board, said that the items were confiscated during raid operations and enforcement drive in markets in the Federal Capital …
The International Association of Athletics Associations said its decision was based on online research in China, France, South Africa, and the United States and post-event surveys in Belgium, Britain and Switzerland.
It said the aim was to reduce the length of the Diamond League meetings to fit a 90-minute international broadcast window.
There will be 12 disciplines staged at each of the 15 Diamond League meetings with the season beginning in Doha on April 17.
Every October 31 in the United States, an army of glucose ghouls begins to assemble around dusk. This harlequin parade of costumed children goes door-to-door seeking candy on what is arguably the coolest American holiday. Not all children, however, are welcome to participate.
This Halloween, the US will lock some children in cages, ban some from entering the country altogether and identify others as dangerous thugs.
To understand why some children get to trick-or-treat while others get detained, banned or shot, we should look into the origins of the monster mythologies that inspire the “classic” Halloween monster costumes.
Monster mythologies …
“After receiving briefing about the proposed USSD charges, I realized there was no justification for the new tariff,” minister of communication Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami said.
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“Consequently, I directed it’s immediate suspension, any telecom operator that violates this directive would be sanctioned appropriately.”
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command, on Friday, paraded 49 suspects and a fake police officer, who the police said were responsible for the high rate of criminality in Abuja.
The FCT Police Commissioner Bala Ciroma, while parading the suspects said that they were arrested at different locations in the Federal Capital Territory.
He said the arrest was as a result of the synergy and cooperation among the security agencies.
According to him, exhibits recovered included seven firearms, two ammunition, 12 cars, 16 cutlasses, charms and others.
He said: “Ten suspects arrested for kidnapping included Mohammed Umar, 22, …
The Customs Service, Seme Border Area Command, says it has intercepted 875 bags of foreign parboiled rice and other goods, valued at N40m, in two weeks.
ASC Nuruddeen Saidu, the Customs Public Relations Officer, Seme, Area Command, disclosed this in a statement on Monday, in Lagos.
The statement quoted that the Customs Area Controller of the Command, Comptroller Mohammed Garba, as saying that the efforts of the enforcement unit of the Command, with regard to suppression of smuggling, was yielding remarkable results.
According to the controller, the goods seized include 875 bags of 50kilogram bags of foreign parboiled rice, …
In a bid to defend its fledgeling new currency against black market speculation, Zimbabwe‘s Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube on Monday outlawed the use of the US dollar and a host of other foreign currencies in local transactions.
In 2009, Zimbabwe allowed the US dollar and other foreign currencies to be used as legal tender in the country after hyperinflation decimated the value of the Zimbabwean dollar.
Earlier this year, to pave the way towards ending so-called “dollarisation”, the country laid the foundations for a new Zimbabwean dollar by introducing an interim currency, the Real Time Gross Settlement dollar (RTGS) …
The Comptroller-General of Customs (CGC) Strike Force Zone ‘A’ has intercepted 2,494 bags of 50kg parboiled rice, 1288 jerrycans of vegetable oil and assorted cars with Duty Paid Value of N47million in one month.
The Officer in Charge of CGC strike force Zone ‘A’ Deputy Comptroller (DC) Yahaya Biu, made the disclosure to newsmen on Thursday in Lagos.
Biu said the goods were intercepted in various locations in the zone.
“The seized items were conveyed in different vehicles ranging from Mazda to Toyota vehicles numbering six cars, five buses and two trucks.
“The vehicles were fully loaded with the seizures …
Jubril Al-Sudan, the has appointed a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), to lead the team that will defend his mandate at the Presidential Election Tribunal.
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who came second in the February 23 presidential poll had gone to court to challenge Buhari’s victory.
