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By Kamil Opeyemi The Edo State Police command has said that the gunmen involved in the attack on Monday Okpebholo, APC Governorship Candidate for Edo and the state’s reinstated deputy governor, Philip Shaibu, have gone into hiding. The Commissioner of Police, Funsho Adegboye said this on Monday while giving an update on the investigation into the July 18 attack on Airport Road in Benin. NPO Reports that some hoodlums had attacked Okpebholo and Shaibu, while coming out of the Benin Airport after arriving from Abuja. In the attack, the gunmen killed an Inspector of Police, Onu Akon, an orderly to…
By Halimah Olamide A Federal High Court, Abuja, has ordered the release of the international passport of Ali Bello to enable him travel to the United Kingdom for medical examination and consultation. Justice Obiora Egwuatu, while delivering the ruling on Bello’s motion on notice on Monday moved by his lawyer, Abubakar Aliyu, SAN, ordered the deputy chief registrar of the court to release his travel documents. Justice Egwuatu directed Bello to return the international passport to the deputy chief registrar of the court on or before Sept. 15. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had filed an alleged money…
Agency Report The late Justice Adegboye Gbolagunte of the Oyo State Judiciary has been described as an excellent jurist of impeccable honesty. The state Chief Judge (CJ), Justice Iyabo Yerima, said this on Monday in a valedictory court session held in honour of the deceased at the State High Court, Ibadan. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Gbolagunte, a senior judge in the state judiciary, died after a protracted illness on June 24, at the age of 64. Yerima said the late justice was honest and impartial in discharging his duties. The CJ said Gbolagunte was the…
At least six people died after a gunman entered a home for the elderly in Croatia on Monday and started shooting, according to the country’s public broadcaster. A man with a firearm entered a private home for the elderly in the town of Daruvar, about 75 miles east of the capital Zagreb, and opened fire at those who were present, Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT) reported. Several people were also injured during the shooting, HRT said, without providing the exact number. Five of the victims died immediately, according to HRT. State news agency HINA has reported that some of those injured were receiving…
By Halimah Olamide A former Vice Chancellor of the Lagos state University and renowned pathologist, Prof. John Obafunwa has been named as the new Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR). According to a statement by Chief Ajuri Ngelale, the President’s spokesman, on Monday, Obafunwa will succeed Prof. Babatunde Salako, whose tenure expires on July 23. The appointment takes effect from July 24. Obafunwa qualified in medicine from the University of Lagos in 1980, following which he specialised in Anatomic Pathology (morphological study of diseases), graduating in May 1987. He later sub-specialised in Forensic Pathology in Scotland (1991)…
Agency Report Some consumers of confectionaries in Bwari Area Council of the FCT, have stopped buying bread, meat pies and other pastries, due to continuous hike in price of the commodities. The consumers spoke in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja. They said that the increasing cost of food commodity had forced them to sought alternatives for breakfast. Mrs Ada Christopher, a mother of four, said the price of bread had persistently increased and almost unaffordable for the average Nigerian. She said that although her children loved to eat bread with tea…
By Halimah Olamide The House of Representatives has threatened to sanction oil companies that failed to appear before the committee in the probe of loss of 60 billion dollars by the federal government. The committee listed Total Exploration, Shell Petroleum, Agip, Chevron, Oando, Mobil, Pan Ocean, Erotton, Belema, First Exploration, and New Cross Exploration as some of the companies involved. Others it listed are Seplat Petroleum, Amini International Petroleum, West Africa Exploration and Production Limited, Walter Smith Petroleum Ltd., and Western Sahara Energy Ltd., among others. The amount is an inflated cash calls by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company…
Agency Report The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE) has urged the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to halt interest rate hikes at its forthcoming meeting due to already stretched monetary policy instruments. Dr Muda Yusuf, Chief Executive Officer of CPPE, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos. NAN reports that the CBN has scheduled its 296th bi-monthly MPC meeting for Monday, July 22, and Tuesday, July 23, in Abuja. Yusuf noted that the committee might ensure that the hike is minimal, considering the CBN’s efforts to stabilise…
Agency Report Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will try to show swing voters that his likely new rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, has her fingerprints all over two issues he is counting on for victory in November – immigration and the cost of living. Sources within the Trump campaign said it will cast Harris, the likely Democratic candidate after President Joe Biden quit the race on Sunday, as the “co-pilot” of administration polices it says are behind both sources of voter discontent. Biden’s sudden exit and endorsement of Harris has upended the race, just eight days after Trump survived…
By Halimah Olamide …Presents Staff to Office to Ologba Traditional Rulers Have Duty to Uphold Peace in order to contribute to the development of their communities. This was the statement by Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State on Sunday when he presented a staff of office to Oba Egbeyemi Oladimeji, the new Ologba of Ogba, in Agege Local Government Area. Presenting the staff to the new traditional ruler, the governor described the occasion as remarkable, after a decade of vacant throne in the community. Sanwo-Olu was represented by Mr Mobolaji Robert, Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs. “I, therefore,…