We deliver your news brief for Tuesday, October 10, 2014.
Governor Bala Ngillari of Adamawa State on Friday swore-in Justice Ishaya Banu as the new Acting Chief Judge of the state.
Ngillari said the Judiciary arm of government remained the only system that had continued to maintain its integrity as it strives to strengthen democracy in the country.
“Judiciary, as you know, is the last hope of the masses as well as government.
“Therefore, the Judiciary must continue to ensure that it upholds the right position in the decision making in the process of growing democracy,” he said.
Members the National Integration Committee, South-South zone, set up by the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party to reconcile aggrieved members of the party in the zone, have said governors from the area cannot compromise them.
The committee was reacting to allegations made by some aggrieved members of the party from Rivers State, who said the Minister of State for Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike, had compromised them.
The aggrieved members were beaten and were not allowed to enter the venue of the meeting of the committee in Abuja on Thursday.
Mrs Amina Salihu, the Co-Director, Board of Directors, Nigeria Women’s Trust Fund, has urged Nigerian women to vote for many credible women in 2015 general elections.
Salihu gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Friday.
“As 2015 comes closer, let us build on 2011. We have seven per cent in the National assembly, why can’t we have 30 per cent?
“Women should work together with women to vote for credible women.
The Majority Leader of the Edo State House of Assembly, Hon. Philip Shaibu and the lawmaker representing Ovia South West, Sunday Aghedo and three others were on Friday arraigned before an Oredo Magistrate Court for alleged assault.
They were arraigned for allegedly assaulting Hon. Abdulrazaq Momoh whose seat has since been declared vacant.
Momoh is currently receiving treatment at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital after he was battered on Tuesday night when he scaled the fence of the legislative quarters where he resides.
It was a show of shame at the Benin Airport Friday, as thugs loyal to the Peoples Democratic Party nearly disrupted President Goodluck Jonathan’s visit to Edo State for the foundation laying ceremony of a $1 billion (about N165 billion) Azura Gas-powered Independent Power Project in the city.
The President’s visit which was to show solidarity with the state government for attracting such a huge investment to the state and the country was however hijacked by hired PDP thugs who stormed the airport in large number, chanting anti-Adams Oshiomhole songs.
The thugs, led by one Shaba, a notorious thug in the state, physically assaulted some senior officials of the state government including the Secretary to the State Government, Prof Julius Ihonvbere, Chief of Staff to the Governor, Hon Patrick Obahiagbon, the Edo State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Anselm Ojezua and some commissioners.
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