News In Brief Today 1/06/16

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-. The Super Eagles of Nigeria, Tuesday night, defeated Luxembourg 3-1 in an international friendly, played at Stade Jozy Barthel.

The trio of Brown Ideye, Kelechi Iheanacho and Odion Ighalo registered their names on the score sheet.

-. The Nigerian Army Tuesday explained that its troops, alongside other security agencies, invoked the extant Rules of Engagement by acting in self-defence as well as in defence of lives and property when it killed five members of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, and Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Monday.

It claimed that members of MASSOB and IPOB attacked security agencies with a variety of firearms, crude weapons, volatile cocktails such as acid and dynamites.

-. General Isreal Akpodoro, a former militant leader in the Niger Delta has identified Bayelsa State governor, Seriake Dickson as one of the faces behind the attacks on oil pipelines in the Niger Delta region.

Akpodoro said the governor and other militant leaders from the region met in 2014 and vowed to make the nation restless if their kinsman, Goodluck Jonathan failed to return for second term in 2015.

-. Former governor of Abia State and senator representing Central Senatorial District of the state, Senator Theodore Orji has proposed a bill for the establishment of an “institute of chartered politicians”.

Orji, who made this proposition while contributing to a debate on an Act to establish the Charte‎red Institute of Management Accountants of Nigeria (CIMAN), said the institute will be for seasoned politicians.

-. The newly appointed Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammad Babandede, has ordered the arrest of former political office holders and retired public servants who are still in possession of Official/Diplomatic passports.

He also directed officers on duty at the various airports in the country to arrest such persons and hand them over for prosecution.

-. Former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar has called on Nigerians to give President Muhammadu Buhari a “pass mark’’ for his efforts in the first year in power.
Atiku noted that out of the five areas the Buhari administration pledged to face, he has accomplished two and should be encouraged.

-. The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council, OYC, has strongly condemned the reported killing of some pro-Biafra activists on Monday during a clash with security operatives in some parts of Anambra and Delta States.

They also warned that the Nigerian Army was obviously crossing the boundary by its reckless killing of unarmed pro Biafran protesters in the Easter part of the country.

-. The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has revealed that there was no going back on the implementation of the 45 per cent increase in electricity tariff already in progress.

According to NERC, the decision to increase the tariffs was to ensure that the power sector become revived, and that removing tariff will worsen the power problem in the country.

-. The Federal Government has assured Nigerians that the cleanup of the Niger Delta, beginning from Ogoniland in Rivers State, will not stop until it is completed.

It stated that it had put in place adequate measures that would ensure the sustenance of the clean-up exercise in the region and urged residents of the affected areas to support the government as the programme begins.

-. The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has appointed ex-Super Eagles Captain, Joseph Yobo as his Senior Special Assistant on Sports Development.

Governor Wike, who also appointed Chibuzor Aholu as Senior Special Assistant on Financial Matters said the appointments were with immediate effect.

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Gbagbo’s wife goes on trial for war crimes

Ivory Coast’s former first lady, Simone Gbagbo, went on trial on Tuesday, accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes for her alleged role in a civil war that followed a 2010 presidential election and killed around 3,000 people.

The trial, the West African nation’s first for crimes against humanity, is being held in a domestic court after the government rejected her extradition to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Reuters reported.

It has already drawn criticism from Gbagbo’s supporters, who claimed it is politically motivated, as well as from rights groups, who accused the prosecution of rushing the investigation.

Her husband, ex-president Laurent Gbagbo, is already before the ICC on charges linked to the brief conflict, which was sparked by his refusal to accept defeat to Alassane Ouattara in an election run-off.

Flanked by policemen, Simone Gbagbo, a key figure in her husband’s regime, greeted several dozen cheering supporters gathered at the entrance of the court in the commercial capital Abidjan with waves and smiles.

The prosecution said she was part of a small group of party officials from Gbagbo’s Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) that planned violence against Ouattara’s supporters to keep him out of power.

“The FPI put in place a crisis cell in January 2011 that met at the presidential residence and constituted the organ charged with planning and organising the repression,” an indictment read in court stated.

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PDP crisis: Fayose’s aide resigns over N220,000 salary

The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State has claimed another casualty, as the Special Assistant to the Governor on Parliamentary Affairs, Samuel Ajibola, has resigned his appointment.

Ajibola in his letter of resignation said he quit the Ayo Fayose-led administration “on basic developmental issues and the economic situation in the state which he can no longer pretend over.”
He was the only PDP member of the House of Assembly before Fayose came to power on October 16, 2014.

Ajibola later joined six All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers who joined Fayose’s camp.
In his letter dated May 28,2016, Ajibola said, “I humbly write this to formally notify you that I am resigning from my position as your S.A on Parliamentary Affairs.
“Sir, within my personal conviction, I am satisfied that I have in honesty and utmost loyalty served the PDP, the people of EKiti and government in general.
“Therefore, I am premising my resignation on some basic developmental issues and the economic situation in the state which I cannot continuing to pretend over.
“My resignation takes off immediately.”

When pressed to speak further on why he quit the party, the former lawmaker said he got into trouble with Fayose for going to the house of former Governor Segun Oni to celebrate Christmas with the latter last December.
Ajibola also disclosed that his meeting with a party elder, Chief Clement Awoyelu, with the intent to broker peace with a faction led by the former senator did not go down well with the governor who allegedly accused him of holding meeting with his political opponents.

He added: “My brother, as SAPA, the Governor pay me N220,000 and I am a grassroot politician, which the Governor himself knows what it means.
“Also I have one of children, currently serving and two others in the university, how do I cope and my constituency are also of high hope that they have a son in the Fayose cabinet.”

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