Top Nigerian Newspapers Headlines For Today, Monday, 18th October, 2021
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The Nigerian Airforce has denied allegations that it paid ₦20million to bandits operating in Jibia, Katsina Condition in get to get well an anti-aircraft gun from the bandit terrorists.
Naija News experienced before claimed that the Wall Avenue Journal experienced claimed NAF paid out bandits the enormous sum to reclaim the gun in other to avert the terrorists from employing it to attack President Muhammadu Buhari’s Plane.
But in a assertion on Sunday by Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, Director of NAF General public Relations and Information and facts titled ‘NAF Did Not Make Any Payment To Bandits In Exchange For Weapons’, NAF debunked the report.
The Air Pressure mentioned that it experienced carried out attacks on the said forest, stressing that there was no have to have to negotiate with bandits when it is on the offensive.
Previous Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu has yet again advocated for the generation of point out law enforcement in Nigeria.
He argued that the central police procedure which Nigeria is operating within just its federal procedure has collapsed and is not able to cope with the present stability issues in the nation.
According to him, this is why in modern occasions, the military services has been brought in to cope with safety situations that ordinarily, ought to have been the obligation of the police.
Ekweremadu who spoke to newsmen on Sunday in Yola, the Adamawa Condition cash on the sidelines of a church thanksgiving company he attended in Bekaji place, said Nigeria demands to fall the unitary process of policing which is no extended doing the job and embrace workable systems as other countries of the planet are doing.
He argued that it is mistaken for Nigeria to be jogging a federal method of government and insist on a unitary process of policing.
The Kogi State Police Command has commenced investigations into a trending video of 4 officers allegedly extorting the sum of N25,000 from a traveller.
In accordance to stories, safety operatives hooked up to Adogo Division, although on patrol obligation along Adogo-Okene highway, allegedly carried out the act which attracted outrage.
A push unveiled issued by the Law enforcement Community Relations Officer, DSP William Ovye Aya on Sunday, said “the Kogi Point out Commissioner of Police, CP Idrisu Dauda Dabban although condemning the incident, pointed out that the Law enforcement officers have been identified and detained at the Condition Prison Investigations Office.
“The officers according to Aya are: ASP Isah Barnabas, Inspector Ifediegwu Godwin, Sgt Emmanuel Ochima and CPL Umameh Mathias.
“He stated The Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) has been issued an official query though the 3 (3) other junior officers are now going through orderly home trial (Police interior disciplinary actions).
The Nigerian Senate has distanced alone from insinuations that the modern directive for political functions to hire the use of direct main was specific at point out governors.
This placement was manufactured acknowledged by the spokesperson of the Senate, Ajibola Basiru who submitted that the conclusion of the lawmakers to approve the direct main clause in the 2010 Electoral Act (amendment) Invoice 2021 was to bolster democratic participation and not to pitch the governors towards the lawmakers.
According to Basiru, the immediate primaries for political get-togethers will really encourage customers to participate instantly in choosing their representatives at various stages.
Naija News remembers that as part of changes designed to the electoral act bill, the Senate last Tuesday accredited that all political events should use the immediate main method in selecting candidates.
Nonetheless, the move has ongoing to make mixed reactions from stakeholders.
Reacting to the saga, Senator Basiru even though defending the placement of the lawmakers stated the directive was not from the Governors, neither is it specific at cutting down their influence.
He also rejected insinuations that the lawmakers intentionally applied the immediate key clause to restrict the capability of the point out governors to influence delegates in their favour when direct key is used by the political parties.
Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara Point out has slammed the Minister of Data and Culture, Lai Mohammed, for saying that he funded his campaign and was instrumental to his victory in the 2019 elections.
Naija News stories that the minister at a political function in the state, in July, explained he lifted a main component of the cash for the governor’s election in the 2019 elections in the point out.
Mohammed included that the governor has failed to retain to the claims he produced to him and other bash leaders in the point out, declaring the APC entered “one chance” by supporting his candidacy.
But in an job interview with THISDAY, Abdulrazaq described the minister as a “liar and noisemaker”, who cannot win an election in his ward in the state.
The governor stated that Mohammed is only great at producing “noise” on social media and not doing work for the advancement of Kwara and its citizens.
The suspended National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus states he’s not backing out of the court docket situation from the party till justice is served.
He nonetheless additional that he is not towards the PDP alone but versus these who want to wipe out the celebration by their steps.
Furthermore, Secondus in the statement on Sunday by way of his media adviser, Ike Abonyi explained he is not beneath any tension to withdraw the situation from the courtroom as been speculated in specific quarters.
According to him, the PDP leaders are also aware of what is going on but decide on to perform mind games with the situation.
Sixteen Military Generals, comprising of 9 Big Generals and 7 Brigadier Generals, ‘arbitrarily’ sacked by the Nigerian Military in 2016 for not justifiable explanations have been technically eased out of the support.
This is despite the interventions of Lawyer-Standard of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, court docket orders and the National Assembly.
It was gathered that the afflicted generals have attained their operate-out date this 12 months and are not able to be reinstated into the navy.
The afflicted army generals were among the 38 Military Officers that had been compulsorily retired on 9 June 2016 with out any excellent rationale.
Several makes an attempt by AGF Malami to resolve the deadlock involving the Army Generals and their military authorities had been also futile.
According to PRNigeria, the Military Council, then presided by the trio of Mr. Mohammed Mansur Dan-Alli (then Minister for Defence), Typical AG Olonsakin (then Main of Defence Staff members) and Lt Gen TY Buratai (then Main of Army Workers) sat and introduced the obligatory retirement of the 38 Military officers.
Non secular Director, Adoration Ministry Enugu Nigeria, AMEN, Rev. Father Ejike Mbaka has advised the federal authorities to launch Nnamdi Kanu.
Naija News reviews that the leader of the Indigenous Individuals of Biafra, IPOB, is now cooling his feet in the detention of the Division of Condition Support, DSS, which has resulted in the steady sit-at-home in the southeast.
The sit-at-dwelling which was to begin with initiated to protest the arrest and detention of Nnamdi Kanu but was later on cancelled by IPOB has ongoing to cripple financial functions in the southeast.
Father Mbaka in a now-viral online video for the duration of a sermon said that the release of the pro-Biafra activist will stop the sit-at-home buy in some elements of the south-east.
The clergyman stated that Kanu simply cannot keep on to remain in DSS custody permanently.
President Muhammadu Buhari has been dragged to court docket about his administration’s plans to keep track of Whatsapp messages of Nigerians with N4.8 billion.
In the breakdown of the 2021 price range, the Nigerian Authorities experienced budgeted the above cash for the Nationwide Intelligence Company (NIA) to spy on Whatsapp messages and Thuraya phone calls of Nigerians.
Not happy with the go, the Socio-Economic Legal rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari for scheduling to infringe on the legal rights of Nigerians.
In the go well with marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1240/2021 and filed on Friday right before a Federal Significant Courtroom in Abuja, SERAP is looking for the court docket to declare the prepare to monitor WhatsApp “unconstitutional”.
In a assertion on Sunday by its Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, SERAP claimed the strategy to “monitor WhatsApp messages, cellphone calls and text messages fails to meet the prerequisites of legality, requirement, and proportionality.”
Nigeria’s envoy to Chad and the Lake Chad basin area, Ambassador Babagana Kingibe, has said that Nigeria’s unity is negotiable.
Naija Information experiences that the former Vice Presidential Applicant said this though talking at The Sunshine Newspapers 2020 Awards in Lagos, on Saturday.
According to the previous Ambassador to Cyprus, Greece and Pakistan, even the union concerning a spouse and spouse is negotiable.
He having said that warned that even if the place is divided no land will be taken from just one location to a different as anyone would be expected to remain in the similar area.