Stop Insulting Nigerians: Falana Chides Obasanjo

Human rights activist and senior advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Femi Falana, has urged former President Olusegun Obasanjo to stop insulting the collective intelligence and memories of Nigerians having instituted the culture of impunity in the country.

Falana spoke in Benin on Friday, while reacting to Obasanjo’s special statement last week, which asked President Muhammadu Buhari not to seek re-election next year.

The Supreme Court has revealed that, it will phase out manual forms of serving court processes in all cases before it and commence serving processes by electronic means on all matters from July 16, 2018.

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, stated this on Friday in Abuja at the formal presentation of the ‘newly retrofitted court and legal mail’ at the Supreme Court.

He asked all judges and lawyers to subscribe to and acquire the legal mail, pledging to have the system replicated in all courts in the nearest future.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has filed two charges of corruption against the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Danladi Yakubu Umar.

The anti-graft agency filed the charges against the CCT Chairman on Friday at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

A copy of the charge sheet seen by Channels Television showed that the EFCC is accusing Umar of asking for and receiving bribes in the discharge of his official duties.

The Federal Government of Nigeria has confirmed that 246,355,190 meals had been served to date to primary pupils across 20 states in the country, since the first meal served in December 2016 under the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) with eight more states expected to join the scheme in 2018.

According to a statement, the total figure is expected to reach 313,928,420 meals by the last week of February 2018.

Also, the School Feeding Programme now feeds 6,044,625 pupils in 33,981 public primary schools across 20 states.

More states are expected to be added to the programme this year. The NHGSFP plans to implement feeding in a total of 28 States, while it aims to link farmers to school feeding markets.

The Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) Mr. Rufai Abubakar, has ordered an investigation into the leakage of sensitive information to the social media.

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Nigeria had no regret fighting the scourge of apartheid in South Africa until a fully democratic system was established in the country.

The President said this on Friday when he received the outgoing South African High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr Lulu Louis Mnguni, at the State House in Abuja.

The said Nigeria made lots of sacrifices during the years of apartheid to ensure that full rights were restored to all citizens, irrespective of the colour of their skin.