Good morning! Here are ten things you need to know this morning.
1. President Muhammadu Buhari would be off duty for ten days. According to the presidency, Buhari would be away to London, England for ear treatment.
2. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has vowed that the killers of a female trader, Mrs. Bridget Agbaheme, who was beheaded for allegedly blaspheming Prophet Mohammed in Kano, must be identified and punished for the crime.
Dogara, while condemning the act, pointed out that Nigerians should collectively rise against the growing “lawlessness and impunity” in the country.
3. The Federal Government has denied the speculation claiming that the National Youth Service Scheme (NYSC) has been scraped. According to Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, the NYSC is a creation of the law and as such, only another law can repeal it.
4. Gunmen suspected to be cultists have attacked a Police station at Rumuji community in Emohua Local Government area of Rivers State.
The gunmen were reported to have launched the attack on the Police Station, shot at the officers on duty and broke the police cell, allowing all the detainees to escape. The incident happened during the weekend.
5. The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in Maiduguri has informed residents that kerosene mixed with petrol is currently in circulation in Borno state.
Borno State Commandant, Ibrahim Abdullahi noted that some patriotic citizens alerted the command on the circulation of the adulterated commodity.
6. Eni, the parent company of Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC), said the oil firm’s production had been cut short by 65,000 barrels per day following Friday’s attack on its pipeline in Bayelsa.
Earlier attacks in the oil field on May 18 and 24 resulted in shutdown of some 5,200 barrels of the Eni’s equity share of oil output.
7. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has welcomed publication of the list of recovered funds by the Federal Government as a positive development towards entrenching a culture of transparency and accountability in government.
The organization, however, want the government to publish the names of high-ranking public officials from whom the public funds were recovered, and spend recovered funds in a transparent and accountable manner so as to remove opportunities for re-looting recovered loot.
8. Tragedy broke out in Otukpo area of Benue State on Sunday after a certain Mrs. Charity Aba, who was kidnapped Tuesday night from her home at Oiji Street in Otukpo Benue State, was killed by her abductors after collecting ransom from her family. It was gathered that Mrs. Aba’s remains were dumped by her abductors at Eupi, near Enugu roundabout at midnight.
9. President Muhammadu Buhari has promised that he would use palliative measures and faithful implementation of the 2016 national budget to alleviate the sufferings of Nigerians.
Buhari, who made this promise in his Ramadan message, said no elected government would intentionally want to make life difficult for the people that gave it the mandate to serve.
10. The Federal Government has set up an account for the stolen funds it recovered in the last one year.
Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, said that at an appropriate time, what was going to be done with the money will be made public.
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