Police chief orders deployment of anti bomb squads

The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, has directed all state commissioners of police to deploy Anti-Bomb Squad personnel of to inspect all explosives in their armouries to forestall a re-occurence of Thursday's tragedy at the Motor Traffic Department of Adamawa State Police Command, Yola.

The Force Spokesperson, Acting Assistant Commissioner of Police Olabisi Kolawole announced the directive in a statement she issued on Friday in Abuja.

The statement also said that Arase has directed the Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of Operations, DIG Sontoye Wakama, to visit the scene of Thursday's bomb blast and ensure the injured received medical attention.

The statement assured citizens that the police had directed adequate security surveillance on places where Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs sare kept.

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Police chief orders deployment of anti bomb squads

The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, has directed all state commissioners of police to deploy Anti-Bomb Squad personnel of to inspect all explosives in their armouries to forestall a re-occurence of Thursday's tragedy at the Motor Traffic Department of Adamawa State Police Command, Yola.

The Force Spokesperson, Acting Assistant Commissioner of Police Olabisi Kolawole announced the directive in a statement she issued on Friday in Abuja.

The statement also said that Arase has directed the Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of Operations, DIG Sontoye Wakama, to visit the scene of Thursday's bomb blast and ensure the injured received medical attention.

The statement assured citizens that the police had directed adequate security surveillance on places where Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs sare kept.

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Why WAEC charged NGO N1.85m for best students data

The West African Examination Council, WAEC, has declared that it has a standard practice of charging a fee for the production of data requested by individuals or organisations.

Mr Demianus Ojijeogu, Public Affairs Officer, WAEC said on Thursday that  the council does grant waivers to non-profit and non-governmental organisations for altruistic purposes.

Ojijeogu however noted that a Lagos based NGO, Edubox that was charged N1.85m for the production of the list of the best students in all states of the country did not indicate that it was a registered NGO with the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC.

“It’s a fact that Edubox as can be seen from their letter, did not request for the said data as a registered NGO with the CAC and may have requested the data for intentions that are far from encouraging scholarship and therefore, could not have been granted a waiver.

“For the avoidance of doubt, the Council remains the foremost champion for the reward of academic excellence," he said.

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3 in DSS net over alleged plot to blackmail Director General.

The Department of State Services, DSS has arrested three suspects for allegedly plotting to blackmail the Director-General of the service, Alhaji Lawal Daura.

Parading the suspects before newsmen in Abuja on Friday, Abdullahi Garba of the DSS said that they were apprehended on Feb. 17 in Kaduna and Abuja.

According to Garba the suspects had been claiming that the Director-General had collected N4 billion from the PDP governors of Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Abia and Taraba, to influence Supreme Court judgments in their favour.

He added that the suspects had planned to misinform President Muhammadu Buhari and the general public that the Director-General had acquired choice property in Maitama and Asokoro areas of Abuja.

"The overall objective was to scare the director-general and put him under pressure just for the group to extort money from him to serve their pecuniary interest."

News Agency of Nigeria, NAN reports that the suspects who hail from Kaduna, Borno and Katsina have denied the allegation.

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3 in DSS net over alleged plot to blackmail Director General.

The Department of State Services, DSS has arrested three suspects for allegedly plotting to blackmail the Director-General of the service, Alhaji Lawal Daura.

Parading the suspects before newsmen in Abuja on Friday, Abdullahi Garba of the DSS said that they were apprehended on Feb. 17 in Kaduna and Abuja.

According to Garba the suspects had been claiming that the Director-General had collected N4 billion from the PDP governors of Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Abia and Taraba, to influence Supreme Court judgments in their favour.

He added that the suspects had planned to misinform President Muhammadu Buhari and the general public that the Director-General had acquired choice property in Maitama and Asokoro areas of Abuja.

"The overall objective was to scare the director-general and put him under pressure just for the group to extort money from him to serve their pecuniary interest."

News Agency of Nigeria, NAN reports that the suspects who hail from Kaduna, Borno and Katsina have denied the allegation.

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Abuja voters to get PVCs from March 4 to March 10 - INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC will distribute Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs to eligible voters in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja from the 4th of March to 10th of March.

This Friday's issue of the commission’s daily bulletin indicated that the exercise would take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.

The bulletin explained that the exercise would enable eligible voters to collect their PVCs ahead of the forthcoming FCT Area Council elections billed for March 19, 2016.

“The PVCs will be distributed at the Polling Units (PUs) for the first three days of the exercise- March 4 to March 6.

“Thereafter, the distribution will be done at the Ward level for the last four days, March 7 to March 10.’’

It also said that after the seven-day exercise, distribution of PVCs would continue at the various Area Councils from March 14 to March 16.

The bulletin stated that collection of PVCs must be in person, not by proxy.

“A registrant shall present himself/herself to the Distribution Officer (DO) who checks the Distribution List to ensure that his/her name is on the list.

“The DO shall check the stack of PVCs to ensure the card is available.

“The DO shall retrieve the Temporary Voter Card (TVC) and handover the PVC to the registrant who shall be requested to thumbprint and sign the appropriate portion of the Distribution List.”

The Electoral Officers are mandated to supervise the exercise at the various local government areas.

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Supreme Court upholds Reverend King's death sentence

The Supreme Court has upheld the decision of the lower courts sentencing Pastor Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, aka Reverend King to death for grievous crimes against some members of his church.

The verdict was read by Justice Ngwuta who said that the facts of the case could have been taken from a horror movie.

The apex court resolved all the 12 issues raised by the convict against him.

“This appeal has no merit. The judgement of the court of appeal is hereby affirmed. The prison sentence that was earlier handed to the appellant is no longer relevant in view of the death sentence passed on him," the Supreme Court held.

Reverend King was convicted and sentenced to death on January 11, 2011 for the murder of Ann Uzoh and the attempted murder of 6 other members of his church by pouring petrol on them and setting them on fire.

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