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http://ift.tt/2s8cXgK NSCDC The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Niger Command, on Saturday, warned residents against unlawful assembly. Mr Phillip Ayuba, the NSCDC Commandant in the state, gave this warning while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna. Ayuba said that organisers of any assembly meeting must seek permission from security agencies to provide security before and during the meeting. He explained that any person or group of people, who flouted this order would be arrested and prosecuted accordingly. The commandant warned that the command would not tolerate any act capable of undermining the peaceful coexistence of residents in the state. Ayuba disclosed that the command and other security agencies had already taken concrete working measures that would address or tackle any form of security threats or breaches in the state. “We have put in place sensitive security measures that will enable residents do their legitimate business wi...

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http://ift.tt/2prOP4v According to Saraki, the 8th Senate has led with courage and taken up more hot-button- national and legislative issues and successfully dealt with them. President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, said the 8th Senate passed 96 Bills and 72 petitions from its inauguration in 2015 to June, 2017.He made this known at a special session to mark the second anniversary of the 8th Senate in Abuja on Friday. Saraki said that the passage of the bills and petitions by the chamber during the period eclipsed the highest ever in the history of the National Assembly.He said that the closest record to it was by the 5th Senate which passed 65 bills and six petitions within the same period. “When we started, I knew that the 8th Senate was going to be significantly different and effective.“I saw across the aisle, a passionate, energetic, and a set of leaders made of sterner stuff with a desire to make the difference. “Though we inherited a legacy that created in some mind...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF), on Friday expressed support to the call by the Coalition of Northern Youth Groups for Igbos to leave the region within three months. The group  according to Premium Times citing NAN, made its position known despite widespread condemnation that followed the ultimatum earlier handed by the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum. The forum expressed “disappointment” with the Northern Governors’ Forum for disowning the youth groups. Ango Abdullahi, the NEF spokesperson, told journalists in Zaria on Friday that it was hypocritical for the Igbos to continue to live in other parts of the country while agitating for Nigeria’s break up. Mr. Abdullahi said: “I am disappointed in the decision taken by Northern Governors’ Forum disowning and condemning the agitation by this young agile and progressive youth groups. “Let me ask these Northern governors, whom are they representing, are they representing spirits, ghost or people of the north? ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A powerful Al-Qaeda-linked group on Friday claimed an attack on a United Nations camp that killed three peacekeepers in Kidal in Mali’s troubled north. The Group to Support Islam and Muslims, a fusion of three Malian jihadist groups with previous Al-Qaeda links, posted a statement on its Telegram channel saying it had targeted the UN base “with a set of mortar shells”, wounding soldiers and causing significant material damage, the SITE extremism monitor reported. The UN mission in Mali, MINUSMA, said earlier on Friday their Kidal camp “came under heavy rocket/mortar fire” and “a little later a position nearby was attacked” outside their base, killing three peacekeepers and wounding eight more. The Group to Support Islam and Muslims, also known as Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimeen in Arabic, is a fusion of three Malian jihadist groups with previous Al-Qaeda links formed in March. Led by the Malian jihadist Iyad Ag Ghaly, a former leader of the Ansar Dine Isl...

http://ift.tt/2q9FvG5 Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State The Court of Appeal, sitting in Benin on Friday upheld the election of Gov. Godwin Obaseki of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the duly elected governor of Edo. The court dismissed the petition filed by Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as lacking in merit.Ize-Iyamu, through his counsel Yusuf Ali (SAN), appealed against the judgment of the Justice Ahmed Badamasi-led Edo Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, that affirmed Obaseki as winner of the Sept.28,2016 governorship election. Justice M.B. Dongban-Mensem, who delivered the judgment, said the tribunal was right to uphold Obaseki’s election.The judge said that the tribunal did a painstaking job, adding that the tribunal was right to dismiss Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu’ petition. The Justice Ahmed Badamasi-led three member Edo Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, dismissed Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu’s petition for lacki...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A 41- year-old man, Aminu Umar, who allegedly defiled his neighbour’s daughter, on Friday appeared before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court. The accused, a trader, who resides at Salako St., Agege, a suburb of Lagos, is facing a one-count charge of defilement. The prosecutor, Sgt. Raphael Donny told the court that the offence was committed on May 30 at the accused residence. Donny said that the accused called the 7- year -old girl into his room on the pretext of sending her on an errand. “The accused shut the door after her and defiled her,’’ he said. Donny said that the girl who was in pain and bleeding, cried to her mother and the accused was apprehended. The offence contravened Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015. The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Folakemi Davies-Abegunde, granted the accused bail of N1 million with two sureties in like sum. Davies-Abegunde adjourned the case till June 26...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The management of Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) on Thursday warned residents under its network to stay away from falling electric poles and equipment as the rainy season begins. Mr Godwin Idemudia, the General Manager, Corporate Communications Unit of the company, gave the warning in an interview in Lagos. According to him, cases of fallen poles and cables are rampant during the rainy season and residents need to caution their children and wards against touching any electricity cables. Idemudia said the warning was imperative due to the dangers associated with sustained activities underneath cables that might be under stress from strong winds and rains. “Residents under Eko Disco network are advised to be safety conscious during the rainy season because heavy rainfall may affect our installations. “There will be flood here and there, residents should be very careful when any of our poles fall or if a wire cuts from the pole, they should not tou...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he is tapping former Justice Department official Christopher Wray to serve as his new FBI director, on the eve of critical testimony by his ousted predecessor. Wray, a partner at King & Spalding law firm in Washington and Atlanta, served as assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division from 2003 to 2005, working closely with the FBI. “I will be nominating Christopher A. Wray, a man of impeccable credentials, to be the new Director of the FBI. Details to follow,” Trump wrote on Twitter. At King & Spalding, the Yale Law School graduate chairs a unit representing entities and individuals in white collar criminal and regulatory enforcement issues, civil litigation and internal corporate investigations, according to the law firm’s website. At the Justice Department, he helped handle corporate fraud scandals, served on the president George W. Bush’s Corporate Fraud Task Forc...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The family planning clinics installed by the Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI) in selected Primary Healthcare Clinics (PHCs) in Lagos State are yielding the desired benefits, the users say. To assist Lagos State residents to attain quality life, NURHI in 2016 began a 72-hour renovation and equipping of family planning clinics in 50 selected public health facilities in the state. A tour of the facilities by an NGO, Development Communications (DEVCOMS) with the media showed that the residents in the areas that have the facilities had begun to reap the benefits through safe childbirth. Dr Edun Omasanjuwa, Lagos State Team Leader of NURHI, told NAN on Wednesday in Lagos that NURHI embarked on the project because of the connection between family planning and quality of life. He defined Family Planning as “childbirth spacing and having the number of children one can cater for, which is of immense value to maternal health, the economy, sexuality a...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A 54-year-old husband, Adekunle Bakare, on Wednesday asked an Ikorodu Customary Court in  Lagos  to dissolve his six years marriage to his wife, Ajarat, for allegedly checking his phone without his permission. He also told the court his wife is stubborn and constitutes a threat to his life. Bakare, a civil servant, who resides at Philips Nwokwe Street, Igbogbo area of Ikorodu, Lagos, also cited lack of respect and checking his phone without permission as reasons for the  dissolution request. At the resumed hearing, the petitioner told the court that he was fed up with Ajarat’s way  of life. “Ajarat  has become used to fighting me with dangerous weapons when we have minor misunderstandings. “She usually checks  my phone and accuses  me of infidelity, in fact, she once destroyed my phone during argument. “She is fond of attending parties with her friends without my consent  and she never respects me as her husband and fat...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State has undertaken to offset the medical expenses of Maryam Abubakar, an indigene of the state suffering from cancer and presently receiving treatment at an Indian hospital. Abubakar’s case went viral under the hash-tag SUPPORTMARYAM, which elicited various online donations from good Samaritans who sympathised with her. Tambuwal announced his intention to offset the bill in Sokoto  on Tuesday through his Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs, Malam Imam Imam. The governor also urged the people, especially the Muslim faithful to pray for the success of the impending surgery and eventual recovery. “Maryam is one of us and everything possible will be done by the state government to ensure her full recovery,” he said. The patient, a staff nurse at the state Specialist Hospital, is an indigene of Gilbadi village of Gada Local Government Area of the state. She was diagnosed with liver cancer in India in 2016 and requires N...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) said on Tuesday that it had put in place measures to ensure full and sustained compliance with the Federal Government’s Executive Order at airports in the country. The General Manager, Public Relations, NCAA, Mr Sam Adurogboye, said the agency’s Director General, Capt. Muhtar Usman, had directed all Aviation Safety Inspectors (ASI) to monitor the level of compliance with the order. Adurogboye said this was alongside their statutory oversight responsibilities at the airports, as enshrined in the Nigerian Civil Aviation Regulations 2015 (Nig.CARs 2015). “All aviation parastatals under the Federal Ministry of Aviation, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Nigeria Meteorological Agency (Nimet) and Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) have since commenced compliance to the order. “On its part, NCAA has prepared a standard document outlining its core functions and servic...