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10 Things You Should Probably Know This Tuesday by MAJORBANKZ(m): 3:47pm On Nov 26, 2019 |
1. The Federal High Court, Abuja,
on Monday, admitted
Abdulrasheed Maina, former
Chairman, defunct Pension
Reform Task Team (PRTM), to
bail in the sum of N1 billion.
Justice Okon Abang, who gave
the ruling, also ordered that
Maina must produce two
sureties, who must be serving
senators.
The two lawmakers, according
to the judge, must not be
standing any criminal trial in
any court in the country.
2. The Lagos State Government
says it plans to restrict the
movement of heavy duty trucks
in the metropolis during the day
so as to ease traffic on the
roads.
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu,
who made this known on
Monday at the Lagos House,
Ikeja, when a team from the
Nigerian Breweries Plc paid him
a courtesy visit, said that the
state would soon come up with
comprehensive plan and
decisions on traffic
management in order to resolve
the gridlock.
3. The University of Ibadan
chapter of the Academic Staff
Union of Universities (ASUU) on
Monday, set up a monitoring
committee to ensure that none
of her members enlist on the
Integrated Payment and
Personnel Information System.
UI ASUU, which announced the
committee at a well-attended
congress of the union held at
the Faculty of Arts of the
institution, maintained her
stand, citing peculiarities and
university act while the Federal
Government has maintained
that none of her employees will
be exempted for the enrollment.
4. Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN),
Chairman of the Presidential
Advisory Committee Against
Corruption (PACAC) says the
Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) will not act
on the petition demanding
probe of bullion vans, which
entered the home of the
national leader of the All
Progressives Congress (APC),
Bola Tinubu, on the eve of the
2019 presidential election.
According to him, the petition
was baseless and written in bad
faith, saying Tinubu is rich from
his own hard work, investments
and should be given the benefit
of the doubt instead of being
subjected to persecution.
5. Governor Babagana Zulum of
Borno State has relieved the
state Head of Service (HOS), Mr
Mohammed Hassan, of his
appointment.
Alhaji Usman Shuwa, the
Secretary to the State
Government (SSG), who made
the disclosure in a statement on
Tuesday in Maiduiguri, disclosed
that the governor also approved
the appointment of Mr Simon
Malgwi, as the new HOS, adding
that the appointment was with
immediate effect.
6. The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) in Adamawa State has
split into two, with a former
governorship aspirant, Dr Umar
Ardo, leading a splinter faction.
Dr Umar, who addressed
newsmen in the state capital,
Yola, on the development on
Monday, said the PDP at the
state level had long been an
illegality and he was leading
Reformed PDP (R-PDP) out
because all efforts he made to
get the PDP to make amends
had failed.
7. The Kogi government has
accused Dino Melaye of being
responsible for the violence in
the state during the just
concluded governorship and
Senatorial election.
Mohammed Onogwu, Chief
Press Secretary to Kogi State
Governor, Yahaya Bello, said the
Kogi government has video
evidence to prove that Melaye
was distributing money on the
day of election.
8. The Police in Anambra State
have rescued two children,
Confidence Ejike ‘f’ five years old
and Blessing Ejike ‘f’ seven
months old.
SP Haruna Mohammed, the
Police Public Relations Officer
(PPRO), who paraded suspected
members of a child stealing
syndicate at the command
headquarters, said the children
were rescued following a tip
off.
9. The Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission, EFCC, on
Monday arraigned one Pastor
Afolabi Samuel, at the Ikeja
Special Offences Court, Lagos for
allegedly stealing $90,000 and
N4.5m property of the
Registered Trustees of the
Living Faith Church, Canaan land,
Ota, Ogun State.
Samuel, who was a church
accountant, was brought before
Justice Mojisola Dada.
The EFCC prosecutor, S. O. Daji,
alleged that the defendant
committed the alleged offences
sometime on September 24 and
December 31, 2018, in Lagos,
Vanguard reports.
10. The Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), on Sunday,
cautioned the leadership of the
Senate to resist any forms of
intimidation from the Buhari
Presidency to surrender its
independence and pass bills
and requests without statutory
legislative scrutiny and
oversights.
The party’s position is
predicated on the blanket
comment credited to the Senate
President, Senator Ahmed
Lawan, that any request from
Buhari to the National Assembly
is good for the nation, even
without subjecting such
requests to statutory legislative
scrutiny. |
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