News In Brief This Monday 25/04/16

Good morning! Here are 10 things you need to know this morning:

1. Some PDP former ministers, who served under the immediate past administration have threatened to quit the party leave the party the National Chairman, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, is returned as the chairman on May 21. According to some of the ministers, they would not be in a party that would have the former governor of Borno State as Chairman after the party’s convention.

2. About six people reportedly lost their lives and seven others sustaining different levels of injuries when fire gutted a filling station at Unguwar Ma’azu, in Kaduna. Report claims 15 vehicles were equally burnt in a fire that occurred at the Fasada Mega Filling Station when one of the trucks was off-loading petrol.

3. A former Senior Special Assistant to then President, Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe, has opined that the Southwest deserves the position of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, zoned to it. In an article entitled: “PDP and the burden of Justice and Equity,” Abati declared that in the last 18 years, the party has had 11 chairmen from five geopolitical zones in the country with the Yoruba race of the Southwest been prevented from having a taste of the exalted office.

4. The Chairman, Association of Online Practitioners, Wole Arisekola, has advised the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, to resign from office in order to face squarely his ongoing trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal. Arisekola noted that the integrity of the National Assembly is constantly put to question with Saraki still presiding while being tried.

5. Workers in Kogi State have threatened to embark on an industrial action over the non-payment of the October and November salaries to the workers employed between January and December 2015. The organised labour, comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress, Trade Union Congress and Joint Negotiating Council, condemned ‘in strong terms’ the continuous delay in payment of their salaries.

6. The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has accused Governor Ayodele Fayose of alleged complicity in the ongoing fuel crisis in the state. The allegation is contained in a statement by the party’s Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, who claimed that there are proofs that Fayose was working against effective distribution the product in the state.

7. President Muhammadu Buhari last night appealed to Nigerians to bear with him over the the current hardship in the land, saying Nigerians were seeing the darkest days that will usher in better days. While appealing to Nigerians who he said were known for their inner strength to keep the faith, he said things will turn around very soon

8. Chairman, Senate Committee on Air force, Senator Duro Faseyi , has boasted that the Peoples Democratic Party will take control of the upper legislative chambers if the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki is removed. He that the PDP has the numerical strength to take control of the senate.

9. The embattled Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has questioned the powers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to exornerate the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, Justice Danladi Umar, from prosecution, following his alleged complicity in N10 million bribery scandal. Saraki said that under the law, only the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice had the powers to set free an accused person from criminal prosecution.

10. The Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta, known as Operation Pulo Shield, has said that militants in the region will be treated as common criminals. This is a response by Commander, OPS, Maj. Gen. Alani Okunlola, to the threat by a group, the Niger Delta Avengers, which vowed to carry out more pipeline vandalism in the region.

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