News Update

A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has delivered judgment in the long-drawn litigation over the management and control of some of the assets of Ojukwu Transport Ltd, OTL, in favour of Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu, widow of the late Igbo leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, and her two children.

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 The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, says approximately 14.3 million Nigerians are involved in drug abuse. The Ogun State Commander of the NDLEA, Ibiba Odili, stated this during the Launch of the War Against Drug Abuse in Abeokuta on Saturday.

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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, on Saturday, met with some governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and other stakeholders of the party. The meeting, which was held behind closed doors is not unconnected to recent developments in the party, especially the nomination of the former governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, as a minister by the All Progressives Congress, APC-led Federal Government.

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 A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has delivered judgment in the long-drawn litigation over the management and control of some of the assets of Ojukwu Transport Ltd, OTL, in favour of Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu, widow of the late Igbo leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, and her two children.

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 The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, says approximately 14.3 million Nigerians are involved in drug abuse. The Ogun State Commander of the NDLEA, Ibiba Odili, stated this during the Launch of the War Against Drug Abuse in Abeokuta on Saturday.

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 The National Executive Council, NEC, of the National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, on Saturday, rejected the 25 per cent increment in the basic salary of doctors, as well as the accoutrement allowance. They insisted that their earlier demand is for full restoration of the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure to its right value as at the time of the approval of the structure in 2009.

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Some bandits have killed about six farmers, including the Vice-Chairman of the Jama’atul Izalatul Bid’ah Wa Iqamatus-Sunnah, Mallam Yakubu Bugai in the troubled Birnin-Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Also, the hoodlums were reported to have abducted over 40 villagers while they were working on their farms.

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  The European Union, in a statement on Saturday, said it would not recognise Niger’s putschists who seized power last week and that it was suspending security cooperation with the jihadist-hit country. The bloc’s chief diplomat, Josep Borrell, said in a statement that the EU was ready to support future decisions taken by West Africa’s regional bloc, “including the adoption of sanctions”.

From Daily Post