Man sentenced to death for killing his former employer's wife in Oyo

   

A High Court sitting in Oyo town has sentenced a 37-year-old truck driver, Adeyemi Morenikeji, to death for the murder of Mrs. Racheal Ayanwale, his boss' wife and a staff of Federal School of Surveying Oyo. 

Controversy over Air Force jet in Kaduna

   There was controversy on Sunday over the reported crash of another Nigerian Air Force Alpha Jet in Kaduna State.

The Nation gathered from a source close to the Airforce that there was no casualty in the accident as the lone pilot of the fighter plane parachuted to safety. But NAF NAF’s Director of Public Relations and Information (DOPRI), Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, said the headquarters had not received any operational report of a crash of its aircraft.

Lagos demolishes 4 severely distressed buildings at Ebute Metta

 

  The Lagos State Government, through the state Building Control Agency, LASBCA, on Monday, embarked on the removal of the carcass of the partially collapsed building at No 19, Herbert Macaulay Street, Ebute Metta.

   This happened just as it removed three severely distressed buildings as well as marked several others for demolition in furtherance of the state government zero tolerance to incidences of building collapse in the state. The General Manager of the agency, Arc. Gbolahan Oki, in his reaction to the ongoing demolition of structures across the state, said that removal of all distressed buildings in the state became necessary to prevent building collapse and its attendant loss of lives and properties.

Why We Voted For E-Transmission Of Results With Conditions – Senate President

 

 President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan has advanced reasons to justify the position taken by the Senate on the electronic transmission of election results.

   The Senate on Thursday, while considering the Electoral Act 2010 Amendment Bill, voted that “The Commission(INEC) may consider the electronic transmission of results, provided the national coverage is adjudged to be adequate and secure by the National Communications Commission (NCC) and approved by the National Assembly.”

   Lawan explained that the Upper Chamber voted the way it did in defense of about half of the Nigerian voters whose votes may not be counted with immediate deployment or application of electronic transmission of election results.

The Senate President spoke to journalists at the weekend while on a constituency visit to his Yobe North Senatorial District. Asked to comment on the passage of the Electoral Act 2010 Amendment Bill, Lawan said: “I’m happy that we have been able to pass the amendment even though some people are complaining of what we have passed in the Senate and probably what the House of Representatives has also passed.

Anambra Decide: INEC drops Soludo, Ozigbo as candidates

    The governorship ambition of former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo, has suffered a blow with his name missing from the list of candidates released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday.

  Soludo had emerged as the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) after winning the party’s primary election conducted by the Victor Oye-led faction. The ex-CBN governor polled 740 votes to defeat three other aspirants. But instead of Soludo, the name that appeared as the candidate for APGA was that of Hon. Chukwuma Umeoji. A similar fate similar to Soludo’s also befell two contenders for the governorship ticket of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Senator Ugochukwu Uba and Mr Valentine Ozigbo, as the list of candidates released by INEC had no name in the party’s column.