Here are the stories that drove the conversation today:
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has recommended the compulsory retirement of a judge of the High Court of Adamawa State, Justice Michael Goji, to the governor of the state, Jibrilla Bindow.
Goji, was sanctioned “for refusing to proceed on transfer to the Mubi Judicial Division of the State High Court since July 2017”, and has been placed on suspension pending the governor’s approval of the NJC’s recommendation.
In a statement signed by the council’s Director of Information, Mr. Soji Oye on Thursday, “in addition to the sanction of compulsory retirement imposed on him, the NJC also recommended that he be made to refund the salaries he had received since July 2017.”
A former governor of Osun State, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, has resigned his appointment as the Chairman of National Identity Management Commission (NIMC).
Oyinlola, in a resignation letter dated May 9, and addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari, said he resigned his appointment to attend to “a greater political engagement.”
Oyinlola was appointed as NIMC Chairman by President Buhari on Sept. 2017.
Prince Dayo Adeyeye, a governorship aspirant under the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti, has quit the party.
Adeyeye said Thursday, he could no longer cope with Governor Ayo Fayose in the same party but denied cursing the governor.
“I didn’t curse Fayose on phone as the governor alleged. I only told him I will no longer work with him,” he said while speaking to newsmen in Ado-Ekiti
Adeyeye, who lost last Saturday’s primary election to incumbent deputy governor, Kolapo Olusola-Eleka, has however not mentioned the new party he would be heading to.
The Kwara State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has arrested 17 suspects in different parts of the state while trying to smuggle codeine to other destinations for sale.
Addressing newsmen on Thursday in Ilorin, the state Commander of the NDLEA, Mr Onah Ogilegwu, said his men arrested 13 suspects with assorted drugs in different locations across the state, nabbed another two suspects with 12 cartons of codeine containing 600 bottles of the product on Saturday.
He added that on Tuesday another two suspects were arrested along Tanke area, Ilorin, by personnel of the agency.
The Plateau Chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has called for the “immediate release” of former Plateau governor and Senator representing Plateau North in the senate, Jonah Jang from the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Jang, was invited by the EFCC on Monday over alleged misappropriation of some monies when he governed the state between 2007 and 2015 and has since then, been in the custody of the anti-graft agency.
Chief Damishi Sango, the PDP Chairman in Plateau, who addressed a press conference on Jang’s detention, described it as “unconstitutional”, adding that “Jang is a former governor and a serving senator; there is no way he will jump bail.”
And stories from around the world:
Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad (92) of the Pakatan Harapan (Alliance of Hope) is set to be sworn in as the world’s oldest elected leader.
He also maintained the record of having never lost an election campaign, when he claimed victory early Thursday over the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition that has ruled the Southeast Asian nation since independence, six decades ago.
Mahathir, one of the country’s most eminent leaders and described as the “Father of Modern Malaysia,” for turning Malaysia from a sleepy backwater into one of the world’s modern industrialised nations, led a coalition starting in 1981 as Malaysia’s prime minister for 22 years before he went into retirement.
United States(US) President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will meet in Singapore on 12 June, the BBC reports.
“We will both try to make it a very special moment for World Peace!” the US leader tweeted.
The key issue expected to be discussed is North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme – over which Mr Trump and Mr Kim furiously sparred in 2017.
The pair had previously exchanged insults and threats. The breakthrough however came after landmark talks between North and South Korea.
“I really think we have a very good chance of doing something very meaningful,” Trump said.
Israel says it has struck almost all of Iran’s military infrastructure inside Syria in its biggest assault since the start of the civil war there.
The strikes came after 20 rockets were fired at Israeli military positions in the occupied Golan Heights overnight.
Syria’s military said the Israeli “aggression” had killed three people. .
Russia, Germany and France called on both countries to exercise restraint, but the US said Iran bore “full responsibility for the consequences of its reckless actions” and that Israel had a right to defend itself, the BBC reports.
Dozens of Bangladeshis have in the last 24 hours died from lightning in 12 districts, with a majority of them being farmers harvesting rice in open fields, an official told AFP on Thursday.
Iftekharul Islam, a director at Bangladesh’s disaster management department said that more than 112 people had been killed in strikes in the first 10 days of May.
Disaster management officials are trying to reduce the high death toll which has become a disaster during Bangladesh’s wet season annually by planting five million palm trees to provide better shelter.
The death toll from a burst Kenyan dam has risen to 34, interior ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka said on Thursday.
The flower-farm dam in Nakuru county, in Rift Valley burst late on Wednesday, affecting as many as 2,000 people. Floodwater from the dam swept through 450 homes, Nakuru county governor Lee Kinyanjui said on Thursday.
Engineers had been sent to carry out safety checks on three other nearby reservoirs and the Kenya’s Daily Standard newspaper reports that a rescue centre has been set up.
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