Ibom Air, a commercial airline owned by the Akwa Ibom government, launched its maiden flight on Friday. A handful of enthusiastic indigenes of the state, led by the deputy governor, Moses Ekpo, gathered at the Victor Attah International Airport, Uyo, as early as 8 a.m for a brief ceremony to herald the “historic” flight. The people stood by to watch, clap, and shout happily as the flight, a Bombardier CRJ 900 series with registration number 5N-BWM, took off by 12 p.m and hit the blue Uyo sky for the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos. Thirty minutes after, a second flight…
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“The commission’s overriding consideration is the safety of its ad-hoc staff, Electoral Officers and Collation/Returning Officers and is worried that if electoral impunity is allowed to flourish, any individual can harass, intimidate and put the Commission’s officers under duress, procure a favourable declaration and be rewarded with a Certificate of Return,”
The Kaduna State House of Assembly on Friday passed the Religious Preaching Regulation bill into law. The new Religious Preaching Regulation law substitutes similar law of 1984 in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Executive Bill, brought to the Assembly in 2016, was passed hours before the eighth Assembly was dissolved on Friday. The bill had been with the assembly for three years and had been opposed by Muslim and Christian bodies as well as individuals across the state. The state government had in 2016 argued that the bill was meant to regulate religious preaching…
Nigerian security agencies have surrounded the premises of African Independent Television (AIT) after the station reopened Friday, an official said. The private broadcaster returned on air late Friday after enduring over 24 hours of shutdown by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). The Federal High Court in Abuja voided the government’s suspension of the station’s broadcast licence and asked it to return on air immediately. But shortly after it commenced operation, security forces gathered around the station’s premises, according to its group managing director, Tony Akiotu. As of 12.30 a.m. this morning, the premises of DAAR Communications Plc was surrounded by…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has withdrawn from the corruption trial of a former governor, Danjuma Goje. Mr Goje, a senator-elect, is being prosecuted for allegedly misappropriating N25 billion while in office as governor. The EFCC, which had been prosecuting him for about eight years, unexpectedly announced its withdrawal on Friday. The EFCC’s decision comes a day after Mr Goje stepped down from the race for Senate President in the 9th National Assembly. He stepped down on Thursday after meeting President Muhammadu Buhari who reportedly urged him to support his colleague, Ahmed Lawan.