Good evening! Here is today’s Nigerian news summary.
1. Erstwhile Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu, has called on the Federal Government to do away with security votes, abolish cash transactions, put an end to subsidies and criminalize extra-budgetary expenditure.
These, he said while delivering a lecture at the 2016 Annual National Management Conference of the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM), Abuja will help the current government in its war against corruption.
2. Lagos State governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, Governor of Lagos State has appointed Mr. Tiamiyu Muyiwa Adesina as the Acting General Manager, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA).
Tiamiyu Adesina, alumni of University of Ibadan and the University of Lagos, is taking over from the former manager, Michael Akindele.
3. Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has again heaped the blames of the current economic crisis in the country on the activities of militants in the Niger Delta.
According to him, there was no way Nigeria would not go into recession, considering the fact that the nation now loses no fewer than one million barrels of crude oil on quotidian.
4. No fewer than eight persons we killed and several others injured after suspected Boko Haram members launched attack on outside a church in Kwamjilari village in Chibok, Borno State.
Residents said the incident was carried out by gunmen on bicycles shortly after morning service on Sunday in the village.
5. Suspected Boko Haram terrorists Monday afternoon ambushed troops of Operation LAFIYA DOLE escorting commercial vehicles from Damboa to Maiduguri, at Sanda general area, Borno State.
Five civilians lost their lives during the attack and another died on the way to the hospital while three soldiers also sustained injuries, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, Acting Director Army Public Relations said.
6. A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti has sentenced one Ali Haruna to two years imprisonment for taking his cows for grazing in a farmland and destroying crops.
The Magistrate, Idowu Ayenimo, in his verdict, said the accused was arraigned in his court over a two-count charge of willful and unlawful damage of farm crops at Ago Aduloju in Ado-Ekiti.
7. The Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate, NDGJM, a militant group has blown up a major crude oil delivery line belonging to the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, in Delta State.
The group’s acclaimed spokesman, Aldo Agbalaja, Monday afternoon said the attack was carried out on Sunday at about 11: 30pm around Ekuigbo, Ughelli North Local Government Area of the state.
8. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, Monday afternoon a statement credited to by Hon Abdulmumin Jibrin, where he (Dogara) was accused of giving money to some people to tell the truth about his Foreign Account they discovered in the UK. Dogara, who described embattled as a deranged psychopath and drowning man, said he has no hand in his ordeal.
9. President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, while speaking in Abuja, at the 2016 Annual National Management Conference organized by the Nigerian Institute of Management, NIM, called on Nigerians to expunge all forms of corrupt practices from their minds.
This, he observed would reposition the country on the path of greatness, stressing that his administration would continue to fight corruption and associated social vices at all levels until they are eliminated from the polity.
10. The Nigerian current, naira on Monday appreciated against the dollar at the interbank market.
The currency gained 1.4 points to exchange at N307.25 to the dollar, from N308.69 it exchanged on Friday, representing an appreciation of 0.5 per cent.
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