Kaduna Kidnap: Four Additional Baptist Students Regain Freedom

 

    Four additional abducted students of Bethel Baptist Secondary School in Kaduna State have regained their freedom.

  A top official of the school told Channels Television on Monday that the four students escaped from the forest last night where they were held captive by their abductors. The latest development, therefore, brings the total number of the rescued students to 38 out of the 121 that were abducted by bandits on July 5th.

Nnamdi Kanu takes case to African Rights Commission

 

    Special Counsel to the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Mr Aloy Ejimakor has disclosed that the extraordinary rendition of his client is now a matter before the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights.

  Ejimakor said that the defendants in the petition are both Nigerian and Kenya governments, whom Kanu is asking to account for his abduction from Kenya. He disclosed that among prayers in the petition include that Kanu is restored back to his state of being, which was Kenya, before his abduction that he described as reprehensible.

UNN ASUU To Federal Government- 'Prevent Another Strike'

  The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) chapter, has advised the Federal Government to take steps to avert another nationwide strike by the union.

   The UNN chapter Chairman, Dr Christian Opata, gave the advice on Monday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Nsukka. Opata spoke against the backdrop of the recent threat by ASUU to resume the strike suspended on Dec. 24, 2020.

Buhari Signs N982.72bn Supplementary Budget For Security, COVID-19

   

   President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to the 2021 Supplementary Appropriation Bill submitted to the National Assembly in June.

   Mr Umar El-Yakub, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters, disclosed this to State House correspondents after a meeting with the President on Monday in Abuja, the nation’s capital. The 2021 Supplementary Appropriation Act, which is targeted at the provision of military hardware and COVID-19 vaccines, comes into effect from July 26.

Ogun LG Polls: APC Wins 20 LGAs

 

     Ogun State Independent Electoral Commission has declared all the candidates of the All Progressives Congress in Saturday’s chairmanship election held in 20 local government areas in the state winners.

   The Chairman of the OGSIEC, Babatunde Osibodu stated this on Sunday while releasing the results at the commission’s head office in Abeokuta. Osibodu added that the total number of votes cast in the chairmanship elections in the 20 local government areas in the state was 396, 641.