News In Bits Today 10/06/16

Good morning! ...Today is Friday and the News is not any different from how it was Yesterday.

- More tributes have continued to pour in for former Super Eagles captain and coach, Stephen Okechuukwu Keshi..

Nigerians, particularly, social media users have called on the federal government to rename the Abuja national stadium after the late football icon, who led Nigeria to victory at two nations cup, as captain and coach, respectively.

-. Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), has revealed that contractors will return to work on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway next week.

Fashola, who spoke at the inaugural Buharimeter Town Hall meeting in Abuja on Thursday, said contractors had abandoned several projects because the last administration owed them money.

-. The Department of Security Services (DSS) has smashed an ISIS training cells in Kano. The State Director of DSS, Abdullahi Bello Chiranchi, said that the arrest was a remarkable breakthrough at frustrating move by terrorists to make Kano an ISI training ground.

- The former Senate President, David Mark of PDP has on Thursday called on the National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal in Makurdi to trash a petition against him by Mr Daniel Onjeh of APC.

Counsel for Mark, Kenneth Ikonne argued that the petitioner ought to have filed within 21-days of the date of the declaration of results by INEC but failed to comply.

-. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has disclosed that Federal Government (FG) will start the first roll out of its N500 billion intervention scheme on June 11.

The minister, who made the disclosure at the inaugural “Buharimeter Town hall Meeting’’, organised by the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), in Abuja, noted that the government would on Saturday open an internet portal named “npower.gov.ng’’ and start taking applications for the 500,000 direct teacher job scheme.

-. President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday, transmitted 47 names of Nigerians to be nominated as Ambassadors to the Senate for consideration and approval.

The letter, which was read by Senate President, Bukola during plenary was coming after one year into this administration.

-. The Niger Delta militants have blown up another oil facility suspected to belong to Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, around Ogidigben, Warri South West Council in Delta State. It was gathered that the incident occurred along the Chanomi Creek around Ogidigben area about 8.00 pm on Thursday.

-. United States (U.S.) officials have said “there is no evidence that Boko Haram has received significant operational support or financing from Islamic State (IS).

The officials said more than a year after the group’s pledge of allegiance, it had no link with IS, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.

-The Nigerian Army, Thursday, described as unfounded and tissues of lies reports by the Amnesty International that soldiers carried out extra-judicial killing of pro-Biafra agitators on the 30th of May, 2016.

DAILY POST recalls that a clash between the Biafra agitators and security forces left scores dead and several others wounded in Anambra and Delta States.The victims, mostly members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB and the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, were celebrating Biafra Day anniversary.

-The Bankers’ Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Thursday gave assurance that the rate of mass sacking in banks would be reduced within the shortest time possible.

The committee stated this at the end of its 327th meeting at the headquarters of the CBN in AbujaThe Managing Director, Standard Chartered Bank, Mrs Bola Adelola, said the mass sacking in the sector was discussed at the meetingOther members of the committee present at the briefing were the Director, Banking Supervision,CBN,Mrs Tokunbo Martins; Managing Director, United Bank for Africa Plc, Mr Phillips Odouza and Managing Director, Union Bank of Nigeria Plc,Mr Emeka Emuwa.She said that while the banks understood the economic situation in the country, there would always be reasons for workers to be relieved of their jobs.

-The National President of National Coalition of Niger Delta Ex-Agitators, NCNDE-A, Israel Akpodoro, yesterday, insisted that no group, including the Niger Delta Avengers, should hold the country to ransom.

He also frowned at the claim by the Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force JNDLF, that ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, had fled the country to Libya.NDA in a statement by its spokesperson, Brig.-General Mudoch Agbinibo, said: “Since the amalgamation of Nigeria in 1914 to date, our resources have been used to sustain the political administrative live wire of Nigeria to the exclusion of the Niger Delta.

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