Good morning! Here are 10 things you need to know this morning:
1. No fewer than 10 persons were on Thursday killed in a bomb blast purportedly planted by a suicide bomber in front of Jimeta main market in Yola, Adamawa State capital. About 30 others were seriously injured. Report says the blast occurred around 8.00pm after Muslim evening prayer.
2. A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos State, has asked the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to put on hold every move to arrest and extradite Ogun East Senator-elect, Mr Buruji kashamu. This order was according to the Presiding Judge, Justice Ibrahim Buba, who ruled that status quo be maintained pending the determination of all applications.
3. A correspondent with the News Agency of Nigeria in Imo state, Miss Chidi Opara was on Wednesday night abducted by some unknown gunmen at her MCC road residence, Urata in Owerri North local government area of the State. She was reportedly whisked away at about 8pm when she was almost getting into her compound.
4. President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in N’djamena, capital of Chad stressed on the need for African countries affected in one way or the other by the Boko Haram insurgents to cooperate and exterminate the insurgents. He called on member-countries of the Lake Chad Commission to be determined and to intensify the operations of the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) set up to end the insurgents’ activities.
5. The House of Representatives on Thursday passed the much talked about Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) which many have considered very important into law. The passage of the bill was done unanimously, after which the House adjourned indefinitely as its life span had expired.
6. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission having arraigned the last batch of the accused persons in the hearing of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s N8bn mutilated currency, told Justice Adeyinka Faaj that the accused persons, conspired with two others between 2011 and 2012 in Ibadan and deceived the CBN to pay N1.6bn to the Zenith Bank Plc, instead of N159,431,700.
7. The All Progressives Congress on Thursday shifted a meeting scheduled to hold with Senators-elect and members-elect of the House of Representatives. Report says the party’s national working committee quickly called off the meeting after it got intelligence report that the APC legislators-elect may resort to violence over the Senate Presidency position.
8. About 150 persons lost their lives in Accra, capital of Ghana, after a petrol station was gutted with fire. Majority of the victims were said to have sought shelter in the filling station because of a heavy downpour before the incident happened.
9. A former Inspector-General of Police and Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Mr. Mike Okiro, was yesterday in Abuja questioned by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, ICPC, over an alleged N275m fraud.
10. Kogi State Police Command, yesterday disclosed that it has rescued the state Commissioner for Lands and Housing, Mr. Stephen Maiyaki, who was kidnapped from his farm on May 30th. According to report, Maiyaki was rescued at about 2am at Abobo village in Adavi Local Government area of the state, where the abductors had whisked him to.
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