The House of Representatives has voted against a prayer seeking to recommend castration for rapists. The House, at the plenary on Thursday, considered and adopted a motion on the rising cases of sexual violence in Nigeria. A member, Mr James Faleke, had recommended that persons found guilty of rape should be castrated. Just before the prayer was subjected to a voice vote, the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, however, asked what would happen to an older female who rapes a younger male. The comment generated noise in the chamber. Putting the prayer to vote, the nays had it. In honour of victims…
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The Senate Committee on Power, said on Thursday that it has perfected plans to begin a three-day investigative hearing with the purpose of ascertaining how the N1.8trn injected into the power privatisation exercise by the Federal Government between 2013 till date, was utilised. The privatisation exercise was consolidated on September 13, 2013, during the tenure of former President Goodluck Jonathan. The Chairman of the Senate Panel, Gabriel Suswan told journalists after the meeting of his panel that the probe was not a punitive action. Suswan said various sums ranging from N701bn, N600bn, N380bn and N213bn had been released as intervention…
This morning, I will be briefing you on operations of the Armed Forces of Nigeria and other security agencies across the Country, in line with our routine. Categorically, the various operations have progressed successfully in all our theatres of operations in the last one week. In the North East, the Armed Forces of Nigeria and other security agencies have been on the offensive against the terrorists mainly through the Land and Air components of Operation LAFIYA DOLE. The significant feats achieved in this theatre include deletion of key BHT/ISWAP commanders, destruction of their logistics bases and cutting off their supply…
Police Command in Ogun State says it has arrested one 25-year-old Wasiu Bankole for allegedly raping a 70-year-old woman, whose name has been kept under wraps. A statement made available to Daily Trust in Abeokuta on Thursday by the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the suspect was arrested on June 3. Oyeyemi said that the suspect was arrested following a report by the victim at the police division in Agbado. He stated that the victim said while she was sleeping in her house on June 2 at Abule lemode area of Ijoko at about…
The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, has disclosed that soldiers have arrested no fewer than 24 suspected kidnappers within two weeks of operation in the Owo and Akoko areas of Ondo State. In the last three weeks, two senior military officers were kidnapped in the Akoko area on their way from Abuja. The victims were later rescued. Buratai spoke during a visit to the palace of the Olowo of Owo Kingdom, Oba Ajibade Ogunoye. Represented by the Commander, 32 Artillery Brigade of the army, Akure, Brig. Gen. Zakan Abubakar, the COAS said, “Based on the directive of…
The House of Representatives has taken steps to strip the Inspector General of Police (IGP) of the power to appoint and deploy state commissioners of police (CPs). It has vested the power in the Police Service Commission (PSC), which is to ensure that such appointment and deployment is done in line with Federal Character principle. The Green Chamber of the National Assembly thus put to rest the controversy about who has the power to recruit police constables and cadets as it vested the power in the Police Recruitment Committee, headed by the IGP. The House made it mandatory for the…
Southeast and business community representative in the Police Service Commission (PSC) Dr Jumbo Nkemka Offor is dead. Offor died Wednesday night at his Enugu home, Osimiri Lodge. Details on the cause of his death were yet to be disclosed. A medical doctor by training, Offor who hailed from Arochukwu in Abia state ventured into the world of business immediately after graduation. He was the president, Enugu Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (ECCIMA). He also coordinated the Enugu zone of Nigeria ’99 World Youth Soccer fiesta.
A former governor of old Ondo state, Evangelist Bamidele Isola Olumilua is dead. It was gathered that he died in the early hours of Thursday. According to sources, Olumilua died at his country home, Ikere Ekiti. His remains has been transported to the morgue at Afe Babalola University Teaching Hospital in Ado Ekiti. He died at the age of 80 just about two months after celebrating his birthday on April 13th, 2020. His son and Commissioner for Information and Values in Ekiti state, Olumuyiwa had tweeted: “Happy 80th birthday to our father, our leader, and one of icons of our…
By Balogun Damilola Ondo State records five new cases of COVID19, this was brought to everyone’s notice when the NCDC released the Covid19 case update via their twitter handle. 348 new cases of #COVID19; Lagos-163 FCT-76 Ebonyi-23 Rivers-21 Delta-8 Nasarawa-8 Niger-8 Enugu-6 Bauchi-5 Edo-5 Ekiti-5 Ondo-5 Gombe-5 Benue-4 Ogun-2 Osun-1 Plateau-1 Kogi-1 Anambra-1 11166 cases of #COVID19Nigeria Discharged: 3329 Deaths: 315 #TakeResponsibility u
By Damilola Balogun 348 new cases of #COVID19; Lagos-163 FCT-76 Ebonyi-23 Rivers-21 Delta-8 Nasarawa-8 Niger-8 Enugu-6 Bauchi-5 Edo-5 Ekiti-5 Ondo-5 Gombe-5 Benue-4 Ogun-2 Osun-1 Plateau-1 Kogi-1 Anambra-1 11166 cases of #COVID19Nigeria Discharged: 3329 Deaths: 315 #TakeResponsibility I