Good morning! Here are 10 things you need to know this morning:
1 . Report has it that the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission has begun investigation into the activities of directors and senior officials of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme. The report also claimed that the ICPC had frozen the accounts of some officials of the commission, including the seizure of their vehicles.
2. A prosecuting witness, Air Commodore Abdullahi Ishau on Wednesday told a Federal High Court that former Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh used over N558,200,000 funds from salaries of the Nigerian Air force personnel for his private use. Ishau a retired Director of Finance and Accounting of the Nigerian Air force between October 2010 to December 2013 was a witness to the EFCC. He said the money was being drawn from the Personnel and Emolument account as fund meant for general administration of the Chief of Air Staff.
3. The multi-billion naira executives chamber of the Ondo State Governor’s office was on Wednesday gutted by fire. The fire started three minutes after the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff arrived the governor’s office. The fire was reportedly caused by power surge.
4. The Nigerian Army Wednesday confirmed the killing of 22 persons in an improvised explosive attack carried out by two female suicide bombers at Ummarari village near Molai, outskirts of Maiduguri metropolis, Borno State. The army explained that the first attack targeted a mosque, while the second blast occurred a few minutes later at about 50 metres away. The Army also confirmed that 18 people also sustained various degrees of injuries from the incidents.
5. In President Mohammadu Buhari’s reaction to the Wednesday suicide attacks in Borno State, he said he was angry over the news of the cruel attacks on a mosque, saying the action of the terrorist group justified the notion that they are not muslims but mindless and godless people.
6. The Army has said it has recovered in its latest operation against Boko Haram insurgents, an Armoured Personnel Carrier, APC, from the terrorists, affirming that the feat was achieved when troops of the 120 Task Force Battalion cleared another camp belonging to the insurgents at Bulasari. It said many terrorists were killed during the operation.
7. Report says Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force have rescued three teenage girls, recently abducted in Bauchi State and forcefully converted to Islam. The report claims the girls have been handed over to the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 12, Bauchi, Mr. Tunde Ogunsakin, on Tuesday, by the Shari’ah Commission in the state.
8. Report has claimed that the National Assembly Wednesday failed on its promise to lay the report on the N6.07trn budget for 2016 in its chambers. The report has it that neither the Senate nor the House of Representatives received any report on the budget from their Committee on Appropriation, therefore, the budget was not listed on the Order Paper for the day’s business.
9. Some students of the University of Jos alongside other youths on Wednesday took to the streets to protest the killing of a student by suspected security personnel in Jos on Tuesday. The students were said to have taken their protest to the office of the Directorate of State Services, near Police A Division. The victim, Hezekiah was reportedly on a three-month Students Industrial Work Experience Scheme with a phone shop, Johnson Sky Phones and Company, located at No. 11, Ahmadu Bello Way, Jos before he was killed over an alleged stolen mobile phone.
10. The Rivers State Police Command on Wednesday afternoon says after due consultation with relevant stakeholders superintending the forthcoming re-run elections on 19/03/2015 in the state, some restrictions in movement has now become imperative . DSP Ahmad Muhammad, Rivers Police Public Relations Officer, said outright ban has been placed on tricycles, motorcycles and engine speed boats with capacity of 200 horsepower and above, from Friday 18/03/2016 to Sunday 20/03/2016.
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