Members of the Senator Ali Modu Sheriff-led delegitimised leadership of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are set to commence a phased defection to All Progressives Congress, APC.

THE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has revealed plans to sell N917.1 billion worth of treasury bills in the next three months ending November 30. The apex bank disclosed this through its fourth quarterly Treasury Bills Issuance programme released yesterday.

KATSINA—Men of Katsina State Police Command, yesterday, shot dead one robber in a shootout with an eight-man gang of robbers.

KANO—Kano State governor, Dr Umar Abdullahi Ganduje, yesterday appealed to the Federal Government to investigate alleged   attacks on Hausa community in Rivers State by suspected IPOB members Tuesday evening. 

lagos—Human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, SAN, yesterday challenged the legality of dispatching of military men to quell riots in Abia State, where leader of Indigenous People Of Biafra, IPOB, leader, Nnamdi Kanu resides by the Federal Government.

ABUJA—STRONG indications emerged yesterday that lack of funds for senators and members of the House of Representatives to spend when they resume next week may have forced the National Assembly to postpone the resumption date from its annual recess by one week.

ABUJA—A lack of quorum yesterday stopped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Board of Trustees, BoT, from appointing a secretary to succeed the late Chief Ojo Maduekwe.

A Sharia Court in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, has sentenced a pilgrim from Goronyo Local Government in Sokoto State, Alhaji Mamman Alhaji Lugga Kwakwazo, to three months in prison for claiming a purse he found at the Holy Mosque in Makkah.

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, on Wednesday said Nigeria would get more crude-cut exemption from the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

A Catholic priest, Rev. Father Louis Nwabueze Ezeilo of Catholic Diocese of Awka, has called on religious institutions and “so-called men of God to stop institutionalizing poverty by making people stay in church for 24 hours, thereby encouraging laziness in the name of working for God.”

ORGANISED Labour is alarmed by the huge public funds spent on the nation’s power since 1999, with little or nothing to show for it, besides power outages and crazy bills compounded by crass inefficiency. While recent reports claim that more than N11trillion has been spent between 1999 and now, experts are of the opinion that the funds expended on the sector in the last 18 years, is far more than N11trillion.

SaharaReporters have reported that a newly-leaked telephone conversations between two members of President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabal suggested that he should resign his office because of his ill-health, with cabal frontliner Abba Kyari, his Chief of Staff, becoming Vice President.

AHEAD of its planned nationwide strike expected to commence tomorrow, United Labour Congress of Nigeria, ULC, yesterday, in Lagos, urged Nigerians to stockpile foodstuff and other basic necessities that could last them during the duration of the strike as critical sectors of the economy would be affected by the  action.

The chairman of Uvwie Local Government Area, Mrs Stella Otiotio Daboner,yesterday, visited Barr. Evelyn Omavowan Oboro, member representing Uvwie/Sapele/Okpe federal Constituency in the House of Representatives in view of her ambition to run for  the council’s top job.

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