News extract for 21th July 2017

Ø  Buhari, Osinbajo cannot stop APC convention – Okorocha

Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, yesterday insisted that the absence of President Muhammadu Buhari or Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, cannot stop the All Progressives Congress (APC), from holding its national convention.

Okorocha, who is also APC Governors’ Forum Chairman, spoke after he led his colleagues to a meeting with the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa.

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Ø  Osinbajo Meets APC Govs, Party Prepares for Convention

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo thursday met with governors on the platfform of All Progressives Congress (APC) in the State House, Abuja behind closed doors.

Answering questions from journalists after the meeting, the Chairman of APC Governors’ Forum and Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, said the meeting had nothing to do with the absence of President Muhammadu Buhari but about the party’s progress and proposed convention.

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Ø  What PDP will do to members who defected to Mega Party – Makarfi

Chairman, National Caretaker Committee of the People Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has said that members who defected from the party, will not benefit from the ‘no victor, no vanquished’ policy declared after the Supreme Court judgement.

Makarfi was speaking against the background of the defection of some PDP members in the South West to the Mega Party.

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Ø  Government reinstates Christian, Islamic studies as separate subjects

The Federal Government yesterday ordered the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) to make Christian Religious Knowledge and Islamic Religious Knowledge distinctive subjects in the basic education curriculum.

The merging of the two subjects under Civil Education in the current curriculum by NERDC has been a subject of controversy. The separation will douse this controversy and enhance mutual trust between adherents of the two major religions in the country.

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Ø  How Abuja taxi driver allegedly killed ex-Ambassador, Ngam Nwachukwu sold his car

A taxi driver in the Federal Capital Territory, Sikiru Lamidi has been arrested by detectives from Apo Divisional Police Station, Abuja for allegedly killing a former Nigerian ambassador to South Africa, Ngam Nwachukwu, on November 24, last year.

Lamidi, from Oyo town in Oyo State, was apprehended at his home town where he was hiding after selling Nwachukwu’s Lexus SUV with Abuja registration number, YAB 938 MC

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