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A Russian Antonov An-28 passenger plane carrying up to 17 people has gone missing in Siberia outside the city of Tomsk. This is the second similar incident this month.
According to the regions governor, two helicopters had been dispatched to search for the plane, which was flying from the town of Kedrovy in the region to the city of Tomsk.
It was gathered that the victim was discovered inside a coffin covered with a white cloth in a vehicle by his abductors on Friday, July 16. Spokesman of the NSCDC in the Kwara State command, Zaid Babawale, who confirmed the incident said the operatives of the lmmigration Service, who were on a routine border patrol spotted an unmarked vehicle and stopped the driver who later took to his heel on sighting the officers, leaving the car.
The House of Representatives has passed the Electoral Amendment Bill, moments after opposition lawmakers walked out of the heated session at the National Assembly chambers in Abuja on Friday.
Nigeria’s lower chamber passed the bill after a clause-by-clause consideration. The house passed the majority of the 158 clauses of the bill intact including Clause 52 (2), which had led to controversy and debate. The clause provides that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) shall determine the mode of voting/transmission of election results.
According to Facebook engineers, the new feature would allow for the hugely popular service be used on multiple “non-phone” devices without needing to connect to the smartphone app.
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, stated this in a briefing to State House correspondents after the virtual NEC meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Gunmen have killed a former Provost Marshall of the Nigerian Army, Major Gen Hassan Ahmed. Major Gen Hassan was killed on Thursday night along the Lokoja – Abuja when his vehicle was attacked by the assailants.
“With a heavy heart, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Faruk Yahaya, and Soldiers of the Nigerian Army regret to announce the passing on of Maj Gen Hassan Ahmed, a former Provost Marshall of the Nigerian Army,” the Nigerian Army spokesperson, Onyema Nwachukwu, said in a statement issued on Friday morning. “The sad incident occurred when the senior officer’s vehicle was attacked by gunmen while transiting along Lokoja-Abuja road yesterday 15 July 2021.”
Nigeria’s consumer price index (CPI), a measurement of the rate of change in prices of goods and services, has declined to 17.75% in June from 17.93 recorded in May 2021.
The ‘Consumer Price Index Report for June’ released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Friday, means that the prices have continued to increase in June 2021. However, it was at a slower rate than it did in the last month. “The CPI measures the average change over time in prices of goods and services consumed by people for day-to-day living,” the NBS noted in its report.
