In a bid to tackle insecurity in Imo and other South-Eastern states, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the deployment of technology to improve the region’s security. Hope Uzodinma, the Governor of Imo State revealed this to State House correspondents on Tuesday shortly after a closed-door meeting with President Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Ecology and Maritime Rights Organisation Coordinator, Musa Saidu, has cautioned some vested interest groups against politicizing the probe against the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Godwin Emifele, by the Department of States Services, DSS. Speaking to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN today, Saidu said it was unnecessary to meddle in an alleged N70trillion looted money by the CBN boss and his cronies stashed in different accounts in commercial banks, saying Nigerians should allow the DSS to do their job.
The Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle has shown mercy on 46 inmates who were serving different jail terms at the Gasua Medium Correctional Center. The state Commissioner for Justice Junaidu Attahir while addressing journalists after the pardon stated that the inmates were forgiven by the governor based on the committee's recommendations. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 46 inmates were carefully selected by the committee from different categories of sentences, including 46 inmates serving between six months and 20 years imprisonment, 11 inmates with life imprisonment, and five that are on death row.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday announced it is concluding plans to sell forfeited properties and have invited interested bidders until noon Monday, January 9, 2023, to submit their bids in a sealed envelope to the designated box at the following address: Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Plot 301/302 Institutions and Research District, Jabi, Abuja.
It has been gathered that three persons have reportedly lost their lives following an explosion in Okene Local Government Area, behind the palace of Traditional ruler, Oyinoyi in Kogi state. The explosion rocked the area in the early hours of 29th December 2022.
The Police Operatives of the Anti-Bomb Unit were already on the ground to curtail the situation at the time of filing this report.
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians and the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) that justice will be served with regard to the gruesome killing of a pregnant Lagos-based lawyer, Omobolanle Raheem. Mr. President on Tuesday directed the Nigeria Police Force to ensure the policemen involved in the killing of a Lagos-based lawyer, are brought to justice. Buhari said “the strongest possible action” must be taken against the remanded policemen who reportedly shot and killed Omobolanle Raheem. “I assure you that justice will be done in this case,” the President said in a statement signed by his spokesman, Garba Shehu, title “President condemns killing of Omobolanle Raheem, says justice must be done.”
