Daily News Roundup...

 The Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON), a body which represents broadcast stations in Nigeria, has condemned the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) for imposing a N5 million fine on some organisations over documentaries on banditry. In a letter addressed to the DG of NBC, signed by its Executive Secretary, Dr. Yemise Bamgbose, BON described the imposition of the fine as a violation of the NBC codes.

-. Former Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has broken his silence over the 2019 governorship election, saying Governor Dapo Abiodun was rigged into office. Speaking in Abeokuta on Friday, Amosun who represents Ogun Central at the Senate, declared that his friend turned foe, Abiodun did not win the election.

-. Muhammadu Sanusi II, former Emir of Kano, has expressed great concerns over the current state of the country. He said on Friday August 5, 2022 in Lagos that Nigeria is now in a worse situation than it was in 2015 when President Muhammadu Buhari took over from former President Goodluck Jonathan.

-. Governor Adegboyega Oyetola of Osun State on Friday asked the Election Petition Tribunal in Osogbo to nullify the election of the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ademola Adeleke on the grounds that the election was fraught with certain irregularities.

-. COVID-19 infections have reportedly risen by 231.5 per cent within one month in the country. According to the data obtained from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, from June 30 to August 1, the cases surged as 4,183 infections were reported, indicating an increase of 2,921 (231.5 per cent).

-. The Ondo State Police Command on Friday confirmed the abduction of four persons in the state by terrorists. The hoodlums on Thursday kidnapped the victims who included a traditional chief in Ikare Akoko, Akoko North East Local Government Area of Ondo State, Mukaila Bello.

-. The men of the Ondo State Security Network Agency also known as Amotekun Corps have intercepted a truck conveying about 151 persons suspected to be invaders. It was gathered that the corps made the arrest while acting on intelligence on the incursion of terrorists into the South-West of Nigeria.

-. The Lagos State Police Command has detained Comrade Alade Bashir Lawal, the Secretary General of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN). It was gathered that Lawal was arrested over alleged massive fraud in the workers’ union.

-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday announced that individuals and bodies were causing Naira fall.
The commission met with Bureau de Change (BDC) operators in the Federal Capital Territory.
The chairman Abdulrasheed Bawa said he called the meeting to fashion out ways to collaborate.

Bawa condemned the “brazen foreign exchange speculation especially at the parallel market”.
He said the actions were hurting the country’s monetary policy by instigating a run on the value of the naira.

Bawa disclosed that the commission has intelligence linking persons and organizations to the hoarding of foreign currencies, especially U.S. dollars
and identified Kano, Lagos, Port Harcourt, Enugu and Calabar as states under watch, disclosing that a major offensive against the speculators is under way.

- Minister of States for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) has tried to ensure the prices of food items do not go beyond what it is now.

The legal practitioner said Buhari and the APC must not be judged by the sharp increase in prices of food and other commodities.

Keyamo insisted that it would be a lazy way to campaign if the opposition parties tried to judge the APC government by comparing the prices of food items in 2022 and what they used to be seven years ago when the APC took over.

Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday, Keyamo maintained that those in opposition were deceiving the younger ones by laying emphasis on the hike in food prices.

According to him, Nigerians have to take into consideration what is happening to the economy globally, saying the Federal Government has tried to keep the prices of food at what they are today.

While clarifying that he did not mean the prices of food items do not matter, Keyamo maintained that the cost of items could have been worse if not for the efforts of the APC government.

“It is a lazy way to campaign by saying what is the price of tomato then, what is the price of tomato today. Prices have never been stable. So they (the opposition) should not deceive the younger ones. We are going to expose them soon.

“It is a lazy way to campaign using the price of tomato and rice. We are going to have a debate, we will put the global macroeconomics on a scale and put Nigeria on that scale as where Nigeria is. It is a lazy way to campaign.

“I am not saying the prices of tomato and rice do not matter. But I am saying it is a lazy way to campaign. It could have been worse. You cannot take Nigeria out of the global context. Nigeria is not in isolation,” he said.

 

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