The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Tanko Muhammad has stated that harassment and embarrassment of judicial officers by any government agency would no longer be tolerated. The CJN made this known on Wednesday at the ceremony to mark the official commencement of the Supreme Court’s 2021/2022 legal year. He said, “On a very sad note, I must say, we were jolted with the embarrassing news of the invasion of the official residence of one of our brother Justices, Hon Justice Mary Peter Odili on Friday, October 29 by men suspected to be security operatives, acting on a search warrant.

The Nigerian Government had yesterday kicked against the travel ban against travellers from Nigeria to the United Kingdom on the claim that Nigerians were already infected with the omicron variant of the coronavirus. The FG demanded with immediate effect that the UK authorities should review its decision which they described as ‘knee-jerk” apartheid, discriminatory and unscientific. The Nigerian Government insisted that including Nigeria into the list of the countries ban was not based on scientific considering the Nigerian approach to fighting the pandemic which was acknowledged worldwide.

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Commissioner of Police Babaji Sunday has announced the prohibition of sales and use of all kinds of fireworks, fire-crackers, and knockouts in Abuja. Sunday warned that anyone who violates the order would be arrested and brought to book. According to a statement by the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Josephine Adeh, the order is part of a proactive move by the Police to sustain the relative peace in the FCT and adequately contain crimes and criminality, particularly ones peculiar to the end of the year and the Christmas and New Year festivities.

A former Chief of Army Staff, Mohammed InuwaWushishi (retd.), is dead. Wushishi, who hailed from Niger state, was said to have died on Saturday at a hospital in London, this was disclosed by Mary Noel Berje, spokesperson for the governor of Niger state.
Governor of Niger, Abubakar Bello, was quoted as expressing sadness over the development and sympathizing with the family of the deceased.

Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, a special counsel to the leader of Proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has today given some insight into what happened to Nnamdi Kau during the court proceeding today. Ejimakor said the court directed that “That Mazi Kanu be given maximum comfort possible in the DSS detention facility. That he be allowed a change of clothing.” The Lawyer to Nnamdi Kanu added that during the court sitting, there was a near-total absence of security operatives within the court premises that almost appeared to him as unusual.

The Nigerian Police Force has today opened its online portal for qualified Nigerians who are willing to join the police force for application.
The police authority has warned that pregnant women, people with physical disabilities are all exempted from participating in the 2021 recruitment exercise.