HOT NEWS IN NIGERIA

1. President of the Nigerian Baptist Convention (NBC) and competitor of the Christian Council of Nigeria, CCN, Rev. Samson Olasupo Adeniyi Ayokunle, is the new president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) after crushed senior Joseph Otubu of the Motailatu Church Cherubim and Seraphim Movement (MCCSW) with 57 votes to 28 in a race that hung on Tuesday.

2. The Chief Executive Officer of Financial Derivatives Company, Mr. Bismarck Rewane, has disassociated himself from the transaction group of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND. He said that he was not an individual from MEND and  cannot be a piece of its group to reason with the Federal Government.

3. Troops of the 114 Task Force Battalion of 28 Task Force Brigade, had on Tuesday amid an operation out and about connecting Izge and Bitta raged into 43 persons that got away from one of the Boko Haram terrorists refuges in Madube. The Army in proclamation said the escapees incorporate 10 men, 14 ladies and 19 youngsters.

4. ‎The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday initiated the procedure of altering the 1999 constitution as it considered thirteen bills to change certain procurements of the constitution. Subtle elements of the changes have not been made open yet.

5. The Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki , has documented a new application, soliciting that the Chairman from the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Danladi Umar, be ceased from further directing his continuous trial. Report says Saraki documented the new application blaming Umar for predisposition in light of the remark made by the tribunal administrator at the keep going procedures on June 7, 2016, where he cautioned the resistance group against deferral strategies.

6. Taking after the contradiction amongst Christians and Muslims in Osun State over the wearing of hijab to class, report has guaranteed that Christian understudies now wear outfits to class like their Muslim partners. A report says that a few understudies of the Baptist High School, Iwo, showed up in their school in chapel clothing on Tuesday. The report further says individuals from CAN in the town were at the school to guarantee none of the youngsters was turned back for dressing the way they loved.

7. The Lagos State senator, Akunwunmi Ambode is requesting for open gift keeping in mind the end goal to battle the scourge of tumor in the state. He included that the illness had turned into a scourge which required purposeful endeavors from both the administration and givers to check.

The Governor was talking at an occasion labeled "#GivingTuesdayLagos," sorted out by a Non-Governmental Organization, the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy, to raise reserves for the foundation of three versatile disease focuses over the three senatorial areas in the state.

8. Famous maker, Babatunde Jezreel Okungbowa a.k.a. OJB Jezreel, is dead. Jezreel who has been experiencing heart related ailment went on Tuesday morning at a healing facility in Lagos state.

9. The administrators of Da'ar Communication, proprietors of African Independent Television and RayPower Fm on Tuesday declared the dismissal of all staff of its TV channel in Benin City, Edo State  immediately

The choice was passed on in a letter dated 2-6-16 and marked by the Senior Manager accountable for Human Resources, Victor Okasoga.

10. The Department of State Services, DSS, said yesterday that the pioneer of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, also called Shi'ites, Sheik Ibrahim El-Zakzaky is in its guardianship for his own particular wellbeing. Tending to newsmen at the Federal High Court in Abuja, on Tuesday, direction to the DSS, Tijjani Gazali expressed that El-Zakzaky was in care of the DSS at his own particular will and for his own particular advantage.