Resign If You Can’t Stop Police Extortion–Onyekachi
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Senator-elect, Barr. Onyekachi Nwaebonyi, representing Ebonyi North senatorial zone, on Sunday, asked the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba to resign if he can’t stop extortion.
He said that the 10th National Assembly will summon the IGP to account for the various funds extorted from innocent Nigerians at police checkpoints.
Onyekachi, who spoke to newsmen hours after a thanksgiving service that took place at the ecumenical centre Abakaliki, capital of Ebonyi state.
The lawmaker commented on the continuous intimidation, harassment and torture that innocent Nigerians pass through at the hands of brutal police officers at the various checkpoints in the country, especially in the Abuja metropolis.
He gave the IGP an ultimatum of seven days to sort out the matter that has become a ‘national disgrace.’
Adewale Adeyemo, Is Dead
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Veteran Yoruba actor, Prince Adewale Adeyemo, died on Monday morning after a brief illness.
The news was announced by fellow actor, Kunle Afod, on his Instagram page.
Sharing a picture of the deceased, Afod wrote, “Hmmmm God you know best RIP Prince Adewale Adeyemo.
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ASUU Re-elects Osodeke As National President
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Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities in the early hours of Monday re-elected Professor Emmanuel Osodeke unopposed as their National President to pilot the affairs of the union for another two years.
It was learnt that apart from Osodeke of the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, the union members also re-elected Chris Piwuna, a Consultant Psychiatrist and Associate Professor in the College of Medicine, University of Jos, as Vice President.
They were re-elected during their 22nd National Delegates Conference of ASUU which was hosted by the University of Jos, Plateau State between May 19 and 21, 2023.
All Eyes On Court—Onaiyekan
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EMERITUS Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, has said all eyes were on the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal to finish the job the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, did ‘halfway’ during the February 25 election.
Speaking to journalists after a special mass to mark the 2023 World Communications Week of the Catholic Church at St. Gabriel’s Chaplaincy in Abuja yesterday, the respected cleric called on the judiciary to find a way to allow live telecast of the petition tribunal, even though it had not been done before.
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