1. Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Dimeji Bankole, was yesterday, at the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, discharged and acquitted of an allegation that he used fake companies to defraud the federal government to the tune of N894 million while in office. The presiding Judge had ruled that no concrete evidence was provided by the EFCC to back up its claim. The case was decided by Justice Chukwu who quashed all 16-count-charge levelled against the former Speaker.
2. Equally on the headline this morning is the ongoing jungle justice practice in Calabar, Cross Rivers State where it was reported that over 20 robbery suspects had been killed since the past few weeks by some angry mob who believed that the best way to protect themselves was to kill all criminals caught in the state. The most recent of all is the lynching of two young men, suspected to be armed robbers.
3. On entertainment news is the return of Nollywood Actress, Liz Benson in a new flick titled ‘Dry’. The movie produced by Stephanie Okereke-Linus revolves round Vesico Vaginal Fistula (VVF), a disease in women, especially those of them from the North.
4. Conspicuously on the headline is that the Federal Government will on Thursday next week clear the controversy surrounding the payment of Subsidy on kerosene. Report says the Attorney General of the Federation, Bello Adoke, will next week before the Senate investigative panel, clear the air on the controversial matter, to determine whether NNPC was right or wrong in its argument on the continuous payment of subsidy on Kerosene.
5. Bank Customers have been given 18 months deadline to complete their biometric registration as they may not be able to make bank transaction without their fingerprints after the deadline.
The Governor, CBN, Mr. Lamido Sanusi, who launched the biometric registration exercise at the CBN head office in Lagos on behalf of the Bankers’ Committee, said the aim was to eliminate all forms of frauds and other negative practices from Nigerian banks.
6. Chairman, Organisation and Mobilisation Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party in the South-West, Chief Buruji Kashamu has dismissed Obasanjo’s recent comment on Jonathan’s second term ambition where he (Obasanjo) said that Jonathan promised to serve for a single term. Kashamu said that their was no such agreement as Obasanjo was only playing the role of a spoiler in the PDP. He also accused the former President of asking his supporters to register with the APC.
7. There are indications that fuel scarcity will soon hit the nation, as the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG has threatened to embark on an indefinite strike if the ongoing divestment in the oil sector by some multinationals was not stopped.
NUPENG is of the view that the ongoing divestment was aimed at sabotaging the Federal Government’s efforts to reposition the petroleum sector.
8.In the news this morning is the fire outbreak at the power generating section of Transcorp Metropolitan Hotel in Calabar, Cross River State on Friday. Report says the section was razed in the inferno that was caused by a pumping machine which ignited while one of the staff of the hotel was trying to refuel a 500kv generator from the storage tank.
Although, no life was lost, insiders said property worth over N300M were destroyed.
9. The defection of a PDP lawmaker representing Adamawa South Senatorial District, Senator Hassan Ahmed Barata to the All Progressives Congress, APC remains very conspicuous on the news headline this Saturday.
10. Finally, there is an ongoing plan by the All Progressives Congress, APC, to meet with the 11 PDP members who have been stopped by the Senate leadership from defecting to the APC. Report says APC will find a permanent solution when it meets with the defecting Senators, precisely next week
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