Wednesday, 29 June 2016

FRESH NIGERIAN STORIES

Here are things you have to know toward today.

1. Troubled previous Niger Delta aggressor , Government Ekpemupolo, famously known as Tompolo has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to persuade the Nigerian Army to give him back the Egbesu god, which was purportedly seized by the military during a raid in his community a month ago.

The 'traditional idol', which is likewise alluded to as the conventional image of power, according to Tompolo, the traditional god was taken from Gbaramatu Kingdom and was taken during  a raid by  military officers'  at Oporoza, base camp in Gbaramatu Kingdom, in Warri South-West of Delta State.

2. Four persons lost their lives after shooters attacked Gurguzu town, close  to Maguzawa, an edge of Rigasa, in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

The occurrence took place a few minutes after 6pm on Monday. The shooters, who rode on bicycles, attacked a  the town and shot the ranchers. Four persons allegedly lost their lives on the spot.

3. While the Federal Government of Nigeria is fighting with the Niger Delta Avengers, another activist gathering has developed. The new gathering, Niger Delta Red Squad, which reported its entry on Tuesday, promised to shutdown oil facilities in Imo State if the federal government neglects to take care of them.

4. Some Nigerian activists have requested the resignation   of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, for allegedly owing decision property in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.


5. The Christian Association of Nigerian has blamed President Muhammadu Buhari for just giving out succulent appointments to his Fulani and Muslim siblings. Secretary of CAN, Barrister Danladi Yarima said that Buhari was not being reasonable to Christians and had ruptured the law that made the Federal Character in his arrangement, by simply appointing his own kits and kin .

6. Justice M. S. Hassan of the Federal High Court Lagos, Tuesday, remanded Nenadi Esther Usman, a previous Minister of Finance and Director of finance of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organization in the last administration of President Goodluck Jonathan; Femi Fani-Kayode likewise a previous Minister and Director Media/Publicity of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organization; Danjuma Yusuf and Jointrust Dimensions Nigeria Limited in jail for alleged misappropriation  of funds, contrary to Nigerian  law, they  unlawfully dispensed about N4.9 billion Naira from the coffers of the Federal Government of Nigeria for political and individual interests.

The litigants pleaded not liable to every one of the charges favored against them.

7. Representative Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has recorded an offer against Monday's judgment of a Federal High Court in Abuja which expelled him from office as governor and requested that the Appeal Court put aside the judgment of Justice Okon Abang.

Ikpeazu, in a notification of offer recorded by his counsel, Chief Adegboyega Awomolo, blamed the high court judgment on five grounds, saying that the Federal High Court did not have the ability to request him to leave the seat of Abia State Governor.

8. President Muhammadu Buhari has been instructed to name previous Chairman with respect to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Malam Nuhu Ribadu into his bureau to adequately battle fraud.

President of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Coalition for Peace and Mobilization (NACOPEM), Comrade Ahmed Saleh said the present government required the services of Nuhu Ribadu and numerous others to rejoin the gathering and bolster this legislature to battle fraud and  the multifaceted issues confronting the nation.

9. The Nigerian Air Force Tuesday said its Air Component of Operation Lafiya Dole thwarted an arrangement by Boko Haram terrorists to snare the armed force's surface powers harbored at Doron, north of Borno State.


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