Floods kill 29 people in Kenya

 

   According to Kenya’s meteorological department, Twenty-nine people have died in the country due to flooding.

NJC probes 8 judges over misconduct

  National Judicial Council (NJC) has  set up an eight-member committee to investigate eight judicial officers who were the subjects of petitions for alleged misconduct.

   The NJC took the decision to empanel the committee to probe the eight after deliberating on the report of its Preliminary Complaints Assessment Committee. It had received 35 petitions against 37 judges of federal and state high courts. The remaining petitions were summarily dismissed for lack of merit, being subjudice, concerning administrative matters, or that such petitions were matters for appeal.

Lightning kills cows in Ondo

 

   At least eight cows have been struck dead in Ekan-Ile area of Ikare-Akoko in Ondo state. This comes a month after 36 cows were killed by lightning (pictured) in Ijare community, Ifedore local government area of Ondo state.

FIRS generates N4 trillion in nine months

     The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) collected N4.012 trillion in three quarters (January-September), its Executive Chairman, Tunde Fowler, said on Thursday.

    He told the Senate Committee on Appropriations that the amount is N77.89 billion above the N3.941 trillion collected between January and September 2018. The amount represents 60.77 per cent of FIRS’ N8.8 trillion target for this year. Fowler said he was optimistic that FIRS would do better than the N5.3 trillion it collected last year.

Kanye West reveals he predicts he will be US President

   Kanye West has made some bold claims including that he predicts that he will be US President in an explosive new interview.