Ø Buhari forwards names of new ministers to Senate
President
Muhammadu Buhari has sent names of two new ministerial nominees to the Senate
for confirmation.
A source close to the Senate told our correspondent that the
letter arrived the Senate late Tuesday.
The source revealed that the two nominees are from Kogi and Gombe
state.
Our correspondent gathered that the Kogi nominee will be replacing
the late Minister of State for Labour, Barr. James Ocholi while the nominee
from Gombe would be replacing former Minister for Environment Ms Amina Mohammed
who had gone to serve in the United Nations as a deputy Secretary General.
BREAKING
TIMES
Ø Bribery:
NJC didn’t allow us question judges, says EFCC
A witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, Mr. Daniel Danladi, on Tuesday, told the Lagos State High Court in
Ikeja that the National Judicial Council last year prevented the commission
from questioning some judges who were allegedly bribed by some lawyers.
Danladi said this at the resumed proceedings
in the trial of a Senior Advocate Nigeria, Dr. Joseph Nwobike for alleged
bribery before Justice Raliat Adebiyi.
PUNCH
Ø
Seized SUV: Customs shuns Senate
THE fight between the Senate and the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, appears to have continued unabated as the Customs Service yesterday, shunned the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions investigating the purchase of the vehicle with alleged fake National Assembly documents.
VANGUARD
THE fight between the Senate and the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, appears to have continued unabated as the Customs Service yesterday, shunned the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions investigating the purchase of the vehicle with alleged fake National Assembly documents.
VANGUARD
Ø N19bn Paris Club scam: EFCC to invite Saraki’s
aides, others
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is set to
arrest several aides and persons linked to Senate President Bukola Saraki for
their alleged role in the N19bn illegally deducted from the N522bn Paris Club
loan refund.
About N3.5bn out of the N19bn was said to
have been traced to Saraki and several persons close to him, an EFCC report has
said.
PUNCH
Ø
How whistleblowers
exposed suspects who buried Jumia deliveryman in septic tank
Saturday, March 25
turned out to be a gloomy day for the family of a courier service personnel for
popular e-commerce platform, Jumia. The middle-aged delivery agent had gone to
deliver products to customers living at No. 4, Adaede Street, off Ada George
Road, by Location junction, Port Harcourt before he went missing.
On the said day, he
had gone to deliver two i-Phones and a super bike worth about N500,000 at the
above address to the duo of Sodienye Mbatumukeke, 28 and Excel Divine Naabe,
25.
THE GUARDIAN
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