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AN artisan, Okwudili Nwodo, is in police net in Enugu for repainting stolen vehicles. It was learnt that Nwodo worked with a car-snatching syndicate, which usually supplied him with stolen cars to repaint. The vehicles were subsequently sold to unsuspecting members of the public. Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN

The President, Nigeria Labour Congress, Mr. Ayuba Wabba, and his team met for about 40 minutes behind closed-doors on Thursday evening, with the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, to discuss the nationwide strike over the hike in fuel price. Wabba told journalists after the parley that the strike would continue until the Federal Government resumed talks with the NLC, under his leadership, on the crisis. The NLC team, however, told the Senate leadership that the workers were ready to go back to thenegotiation table with the. Federal Government over the fuel matter any time invitation to that effect was extended to them. He debunked reports that labour leaders walked out on the negotiation team of the Federal Government on Tuesday night before the strike commenced on Wednesday. Wabba said, "We are trying to engage government in negotiations essentially about the trade issue, about the electricity tariff but importantly about the increase in the pump price of PMS from N87 to N145 and w

An EgyptAir flight, MS804, with 66 passengers on board went missing in the early hours of Thursday over the Mediterranean en route from Paris to Cairo, Egypt. The Egyptian Civil Aviation Minister, Sherif Fathi, said the crash was likely caused by a terror attack rather than a technical error, USA Today reports. The flight was said to have made two sharp turns before it suddenly lost altitude and vanished from radar. Greek authorities had found floating materials, including life vests, likely to be the wreckage from the plane, adding that the debris was found near the Greek island of Karpathos. French President, François Hollande, confirmed the disappearance of the airliner but said it was too early to determine the cause of the crash. Egyptian and Greek authorities said the plane likely went down near the Greek island of Crete. Greek TV reported two floating orange objects that could be airplane debris were spotted in the ocean 50 miles south-east of the area

Workers in most states of the federation on Wednesday shunned a directive of a faction of the Nigeria Labour Congress to embark on an indefinite strike due to the increase in the pump price of petrol from N86.50 to N145 by the Federal Government. Despite this, however, labour and civil society organisations held rallies in most states to press home their demand that the Federal Government should reverse the price hike. Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN

An EgyptAir plane headed to Cairo from Paris with 69 people on board disappeared from radar at dawn Thursday, the airline said. Flight MS804 operating an Airbus A320 took off from Charles de Gaulle airport at 11:09 p.m. with 59 passengers and 10 crew members, the carrier said in a statement. The aircraft lost communications with radar around 2:45 a.m. Cairo time, it said in a separate statement. All communication has been lost with the missing plane and search and rescue operations are underway, a spokeswoman said. Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN

Public and private sector workers in five states of the North West on Wednesday defied the nationwide strike action ordered by the Ayuba Waba faction of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) over fuel price increase. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that federal and state workers in Katsina, Kano, Kaduna, Sokoto, and Kebbi have reported to their duty posts in defiance of the order. Reports from the five states indicated that socio-economic activities were also going on, with schools, banks, markets, hospitals and other businesses fully opened. Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN

Activists have reported finding one of the missing Chibok girls. She is the first since they were abducted by Boko Haram militants two years ago. The more than 200 girls we The more than 200 girls were taken from their secondary school in north-east Nigeria by Boko Haram terrorists on April 14, 2014. Activists said the recovered hostage is Amina Ali. She was found by a vigilante group on Tuesday in the Sambisa Forest, close to the border with Cameroon, the activists said. Details later… Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN

ABUJA - SENIOR Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU yesterday joined in the nation-wide strike organised by the Ayuba Wabba-led faction of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC. Though, SSANU was in a capacity building workshop for its members and National Executive Council, NEC, meeting with the theme, "Trade union leadership skills in a challenging environs" at Michael Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies, MINILS, Ilorin, Kwara state, the union said as an affiliate of the NLC it has to abide by the directives of the union. National President of SSANU, Comrade Samson Ugwoke had before joining the strike said that workshop was geared towards equipping members with the required union solidarity and cohesion in the face of challenges. Ugwoke who was represented by the Deputy President of SSANU, Comrade Moses Adeniyi-Aogo, further said that the capacity building workshop was to equip members more on how o improve their capacity for negotiation. "The training

ABUJA - SENIOR Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU yesterday joined in the nation-wide strike organised by the Ayuba Wabba-led faction of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC. Though, SSANU was in a capacity building workshop for its members and National Executive Council, NEC, meeting with the theme, "Trade union leadership skills in a challenging environs" at Michael Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies, MINILS, Ilorin, Kwara state, the union said as an affiliate of the NLC it has to abide by the directives of the union. National President of SSANU, Comrade Samson Ugwoke had before joining the strike said that workshop was geared towards equipping members with the required union solidarity and cohesion in the face of challenges. Ugwoke who was represented by the Deputy President of SSANU, Comrade Moses Adeniyi-Aogo, further said that the capacity building workshop was to equip members more on how o improve their capacity for negotiation.

Senator Ben Murray-Bruce appeals to Buhari to Increase minimum wage as he increase petrol price. " Increase the minimum wage to help the masses cope with increased fuel price or allow minimum wages earners pay no tax" " To consider the immerse suffering in Nigeria and increase minimum wages to help workers cope with increased fuel price". Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN

LAGOS — NATIONAL leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, has appealed to Nigerians to take the difficulties that might arise as a result of the new pump price of fuel as a sacrifice for a better future. In a statement issued by his media office, the two-term governor of Lagos state, commended President Muhammadu Buhari for taking "a bold step", telling Nigerians that "this pain is necessary". He said the new development will clear the rot in the petroleum sector, and push out "fake businessmen who became true billionaires over night. "We all want fuel at a cheaper price under the subsidy, we got the right price but not the fuel," the statement read. "I would be lying if I said this will cause no pain or dislocation. However, it will stabilise supply and end the costs associated with long waits and delays for fuel. The days and hours of waiting for fuel will be a thing of the past. "As originally envisioned, subsidy formed

A Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, ruled that it had jurisdiction to hear and determine a suit, seeking an order, declaring Governor Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi State unqualified to contest the April 11, 2015, state governorship election, which he won. Justice Adeniyi Ademola held in a ruling that the court had jurisdiction to entertain some of the plaintiffs' prayers which he said qualified as pre-election matters that fell within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court. The judge was delivering ruling on the separate notices of preliminary objection against the suit filed by the defendants comprising Bagudu, his party, the All Progressives Congress, and the Independent National Electoral Commission. The plaintiffs are Bagudu's main opponent in the April 11, 2015 election, Maj. Gen. Bello Sarkin-Yaki (retd.), and two others – Anthony Itanyi and Sahabi Sami. Through their lawyer, Mr. Tochukwu Maduka, the plaintiffs had instituted the suit, numbered FHC/ABJ CS/

The Independent National Electoral Commission, on Thursday, in Abuja, released the timetables and schedule of activities for the governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states. According to the electoral body, the Edo State governorship election comes up on Saturday, September 10, 2016 just as that of Ondo State comes up on Saturday, November 26, 2016. INEC said June 12, 2016 had been fixed for the commencement of campaigns by political parties in the Edo governorship election, while party primaries would hold between July 2 and 4, 2016. It said the resolution of disputes would also hold between July 2 and 4, 2016. The electoral body fixed August 11, 2016 for the publication of the voter registers for the election, adding that the submission of the names of party agents for the election would hold on August 27, 2016. The commission also fixed September 8, 2016 as the last day for campaigns for the Edo governorship election. Similarly, INEC has scheduled August 28, 2016 for t

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Thursday arraigned a Lagos-based lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, for allegedly dealing in a landed property in defiance of a court order. Adegboruwa was arraigned on one count alongside one Jonathan Udeagbala, said to be at large, before Justice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo of a Federal High Court in Lagos. In the charge, marked FHC/L/181c/2016, presented before the court by its prosecutor, Idris Abdullahi, the EFCC claimed that Adegboruwa and Udeagbala dealt in a property "lying, being and situate at House 105, Nicon Estate, Lekki, Lagos," without the authorisation of the EFCC. According to the anti-graft agency, the said property was a subject of litigation before Justice C. A. Balogun of the Lagos State High Court. The EFCC claimed that on August 13, 2013, Adegboruwa and Udeagbala leased the property in defiance of an order of interim injunction made by Justice Balogun on June 18, 2012, concerning the property. The defendants were accuse

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, on Thursday, described the lingering crisis in the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress as the handiwork of enemies of the state and the party. He also said the crisis was being blown out of proportion. Oshiomhole said this at the Government House in Benin, when he received the members of the fact-finding committee set up by the national secretariat of the APC to assess the internal wrangling rocking the party in Edo State ahead of the state's governorship election on September 10. The national leadership of the party had, on May 10, inaugurated the five-member reconciliation committee, led by a former governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, to look into the immediate and remote challenges affecting its Edo State chapter. Other members include Senator Osita Izunazo, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, Hajiya Fatimah Mohammed and Alhaji Ahmed Abdullahi. The Edo State chapter of the party has, for several months, been battlin

Resident Doctors of Nigeria on Thursday in Kano commenced a five-day warning strike in compliance with the directive of the president of the association, Dr Muhammed Askira, at a press conference in Abuja yesterday. According to Askira, the decision was part of the resolutions reached by the association at its extra-ordinary executive council meeting, held on May 8, 2015, claiming that the Federal Government was yet to meet their demands, as promised. Askira listed the demands of the association to include remuneration, as well as Residential training programmes, noting that some members in some states were yet to be paid their salaries. Disclosing that the strike, which commenced at 8am yesterday (Thursday) would end on Sunday, May 15, 2016. All its members are expected to resume duties on Monday, May 16 by 8am. Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN

Until the removal, the official price of petrol was N87 per litre although consumers have been paying as much as N200 for fuel due to scarcity. The removal in fuel subsidy has been a lingering issue since President Muhammadu Buhari took over power. The minister of state for petroleum product, Dr Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu had said that the citizens were not benefitting from the subsidy which made it necessary to be removed. An official in the petroleum industry had earlier said the federal government would deregulate the downstream sector of the Nigerian petroleum industry so as to put an end to scarcity. The petroleum minister in a statement said the decision was taken based on the current challenges and that Nigerians have been paying exorbitant prices for fuel. We have just finished a meeting of various stakeholders presided over by His Excellency, the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The meeting had in attendance the Leadership of the Senate, House of Representatives,

Until the removal, the official price of petrol was N87 per litre although consumers have been paying as much as N200 for fuel due to scarcity. The removal in fuel subsidy has been a lingering issue since President Muhammadu Buhari took over power. The minister of state for petroleum product, Dr Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu had said that the citizens were not benefitting from the subsidy which made it necessary to be removed. An official in the petroleum industry had earlier said the federal government would deregulate the downstream sector of the Nigerian petroleum industry so as to put an end to scarcity. The petroleum minister in a statement said the decision was taken based on the current challenges and that Nigerians have been paying exorbitant prices for fuel. We have just finished a meeting of various stakeholders presided over by His Excellency, the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The meeting had in attendance the Leadership of the Senate, House of Representatives,

RICE farmers in Abia State have decried the incessant destruction of their farms by the Fulani herdsmen at Idima Abam and Ndi Oji Abam both in Arochukwu LGA of the state. The farmers said activities of the herdsmen posed a threat to their business in the state. The farmers, who spoke through the state President of Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria, Chief Okechukwu Origa, sought the Abia State Government's assistance to check the herdsmen and enhance their (rice farmers) production capacity. They commended the Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, for his love for farmers in the state, describing him as God-sent and pledged to support his administration. The farmers also urged the state government to help in the improving their rice to a global brand, noting that their rice were more nutritious than the imported products. They called for financial assistance as well as the provision of chemicals for them to kick off their new rice season, adding that massive

Port Harcourt Operatives of the 2 Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt, have arrested 17 suspected cultists and armed robbers. The Army also recovered arms and ammunition, including dynamites, from the hoodlums from the various locations in the state. Briefing newsmen before parading the suspects in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, the Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, 2 Brigade, Captain Eli Lazarus, said arrests were made during their operations in Ahoada East, Ogbogoro in Obio/Akpor, Omoku in Ogba/Egbema/ Ndoni, Omuonwa and Isiokpo in Ikwerre LGA. Lazarus listed arms and ammunition recovered from the arrested suspects and others at large as 16 AK 47 rifles, five General Purpose Machine Guns, two abrique national rifles, six pump action rifles, 11 dane guns and three G-3 rifles. Others, according to him, are three G-3 magazines, 11 fabrique national magazines, 15 AK 47 rifle magazines, 508 rounds of 7.62mm (NATO) ammunition, 313 rounds of 7.62mm (special) ammun

The Nigerian Army on Wednesday brought six military personnel from various units of the 2 Division of the Nigerian Army, Adekunle Fajuyi Cantonment, Odogbo, Ibadan, before a General Court Martial over allegation of murder and other offences. The soldiers were also accused of manslaughter, stealing, negligence of performance of military duties,sexual relationship with spouse of military personnel, disgraceful conduct of indecent nature, and scandalous conduct. The trial began after the General Officer Commanding at the division, Maj. Gen. Laz Ilo, inaugurated the General Court Martial in Ibadan, which is presided over by Brig. Gen. Ibikunle Raji with five other members. Those arraigned were a major, one captain, one lieutenant, one second lieutenant, one corporal and one private. The GOC said the military formation was anchored and driven by core values and discipline. He said, "In administration of discipline in the Nigerian Army, we ensure that justice is n

A witness, Mr. Abu Sule, told a Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday that he collected $2.29m cash in Ghana-Must- Go' bag from a former Governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim, to help the former governor to buy a property in Asokoro, Abuja. Sule, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission's second prosecution witness in Ohakim's ongoing trial, said this while he was being cross-examined by the former governor's lead counsel, Awa Kalu (SAN). The witness said he collected the$2.29m, which was an equivalent of N270m, from Ohakim in $100 bills at night sometimes in November 2008 and handed it over to the then owner of the property, Alhaji Isah Maidabino, the next day. The witness, an architect and Managing Director of Tweenex Consociates H.D Ltd., said he kept the money in the boot of his car overnight before handing it over to Maidabino, now a director in the office of the Head of Service of the Federation. The EFCC is prosecuting Ohakim who was Imo State governor betwe

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