Ø Maryam Sanda’s mother, brother charged with Bilyamin’s murder
A former executive director of Aso
Savings and Loans Maimuna Aliyu, her son Aliyu Sanda, and another lady were
yesterday charged by the FCT Police Command for alleged concealment of evidence
at the crime scene of the suspected murder of their son-in-law, Bilyamin Bello,
by her daughter Maryam Sanda.
This was contained in an amended
charge filed by the police at the resumed hearing of the murder case holding at
the FCT High Court Abuja.
Dailytrust
Ø 2019 Presidency: Angry Atiku shuns press, others after talks with IBB
Journalists and supporters of
former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar were, yesterday, shocked after the former
vice-president came out from a meeting with former President Ibrahim Babangida
with a long face reflective of a red card shown to his 2019 presidential
aspiration.
Vanguard
Ø ICPC arrests former SMEDAN DG over alleged fraud
The Independent Corrupt Practices
and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arrested the immediate past
Director-General of the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of
Nigeria (SMEDAN), Alhaji Bature Masari.
Spokesperson of the commission, Mrs
Rasheedat Okoduwa, said in a statement on Thursday that Masari was arrested
over alleged fraud in the award of contracts while he was in office.
Dailytrust
Ø Buhari: looters won’t return to power in 2019
President Muhammadu Buhari has challenged those who want to
contest against him in 2019 to an integrity test.
Speaking at an interactive session with community leaders and
stakeholders at the Coronation Hall of the Kano Government House to round off
his two-day visit to the state, he said Nigerians would not let treasury looters return to power.
Thenation
Ø NJC recommends Justice Adeniyi Ademola for sack
The National Judicial Council has
rejected Justice Adeniy Ademola’s purported notice of retirement saying he has
already been recommended for compulsory retirement.
The council took the decision on
Wednesday at its 84th Meeting presided over by Chief Justice Walter Samuel
Nkanu Onnoghen.
Dailytrust
Ø PDP Convention: It’s Risky to Elect Anyone with EFCC Case, Kashamu Warns
Ahead of Saturday’s national
convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the senator representing Ogun
East senatorial district in the National Assembly, Buruji Kashamu, has drawn
the attention of delegates, leaders and stakeholders of the party to media
reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was planning
to re-arrest some aspirants accused of corruption cases
Thisday
Ø FG commences partial commercialisation of NIPOST
At last, the Federal
government has kicked off the much
awaited modernization and restructuring of the Nigerian Postal Services, NIPOST
with the inauguration of a steering Committee and project delivery team for the
sector.
The partial commercialization is
aimed at moving the sector from its old postal operations to an ultimate agency
responsive to modern global exigencies with some of its services reflecting
policies and economic interventions of government for effective service
delivery.
Vanguard
Ø FG turns back ship load of killer rice
The Federal Government has foiled attempt by one of the leading
rice producing nations to donate ship load of poisonous rice to the country for
use at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in the northeast.
It also alerted the Nigeria Customs Service and other law
enforcement agencies of plot by smugglers to flood Nigerian markets with over
1million tons of foreign rice, said to have been warehoused in neighbouring
Republic of Benin, especially as the Christmas and New Year season approaches.
Sun
Ø Some Nigerians in Libya not willing to return
Charge d’Affaires of Nigeria in
Libya, Mr Illiya Fachano, says some Nigerians in Libya have refused to be
repatriated inspite of the “unfavourable situations” .
Fachano told the News Agency of
Nigeria on Thursday: “not all of them want to come back home”.
“Before you can assist them, they
will have to sign a consent form, after which emergency travel certificates are
issued.
Dailytrust
Ø Suspect Commits Suicide in Court
A suspect, one Wasiu Alowonle,
thursday jumped to his death at the premises of the Ogba Magistrate’s Court in
Lagos, where he was brought for the continuation of his trial.
When his case was adjourned, he was
taken to the Kirikiri Minimum Security Prison in Lagos, pending his next court
appearance before Magistrate O.I Raji.
Thisday
Ø Nigeria to retire 403 military men next week – Official
A total of 403 military personnel
would retire from the armed forces next week, Air Vice Marshal Austine Jekenu,
Commandant, Nigerian Armed Forces Resettlement Centre (NAFRC), has said.
He told newsmen on Thursday in
Lagos that the retiring military men were drawn from the Army, the Air Force
and the Navy.
Dailytrust
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