Good morning! Here are 10 things you need to know this morning:
1. The Federal Government has banned all top officials of government from flying first class while going on officials trips.
It added that henceforth, all top government officials such as ministers, permanent secretaries, Chairmen of Federal Government Committees, as well as Chairmen and Chief Executives of Parastatals and Agencies are to board the business class.
2. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has vowed to declare a one-day national warning strike over the refusal of the Federal Government to slash the electricity tariff. NLC President Ayuba Wabba said this while addressing newsmen during the Central Working Committee (CWC) meeting of the congress in Abuja, said, the planned action was aimed at getting the relevant authorities to reverse the 45 per cent tariff hike.
3. The full details of the 2016 Appropriation Bill would be forwarded by the National Assembly to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent before the end of the week, a member of the House of Representatives, representing Agege Federal Constituency, Lagos State, Taofeek Adaranijo has said. Adaranijo, stated that the Senate and House of Representatives’ committees on appropriation had been working together to ensure that the president got the full details of the budget before the end of the week.
4. A principal detective with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Michael Wetkas has informed the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT how Senate President, Bukola Saraki made cash deposits of $10,000 18 times in one day. Wetkas, while being led in evidence by counsel to the federal government, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs, SAN, claimed that the then Governor of Kwara state diverted the loans obtained for the state to buy property for himself.
5. Former Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Hon Dele Olugbemi has disclosed how he led the embattled former Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the State, Mr Temitope Aluko to reconcile with Governor Ayodele Fayose on Sunday.
Olugbemi said Aluko’s claim that Governor Fayose stage-managed the reconciliatory meeting was untrue, adding that himself, and Aluko prostrated for Fayose three times to beg the governor to forgive him (Aluko).
6. Immediate past governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu has declared that the ruling All Progressives Congress is not ripe to lead the entire nation. Aliyu, who spoke at the inauguration of PDP executive council, said the current government has failed woefully in its first term.
7. The Attorney General of the Federation, Mallam Abubakar Malami, has stated that convicted members of the Boko Haram sect in the country could not be executed because the laws under which they were tried did not prescribe death sentence. Malami, who spoke at a launch of amnesty’s report on Global Death Sentences and Executions 2015, in Abuja, added that Nigeria was working towards ensuring that the prison system was corrective and not punitive, as it is currently.
8. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested the Managing Director of Katakar Civil Engineering Company, Azibaola Robert, and an Executive Director of the company, Dakoru Atukpa, over a $40m pipeline contract.
The said contract was awarded by the Office of the National Security Adviser under the leadership of Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.) Robert, who is a cousin to former President, Goodluck Jonathan, has, however, described his arrest as a witch-hunt, insisting that the contract was transparent.
9. No fewer than 800 members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect have surrendered arms, the Defence Headquarters has said. The Acting Director, Defence Information, Brig. Gen. Rabe Abubakar, said in Abuja that 800 of the insurgents surrendered to the troops of the Nigerian Army in the last three weeks.
10. President Muhammadu Buhari has urged state governments and the private sector on the need to thoroughly check their potential foreign partners’ background before signing any deal.
The president, who gave the advice in Kaduna on Wednesday at the opening ceremony of two-day Kaduna Economic and Investment Summit (Kadinvest 2016), noted that numerous state governments have been making frantic efforts to support their revenue base considering the current economic problems.
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