President Buhari arrived Daura, Katsina State this evening, on a private weekend visit.
He will be attending the Katsina State Economic and Investment summit during the weekend.
Friday, 6 May 2016
The Deputy Speaker of Jigawa State House of Assembly, Alhaji Inuwa Sule Udi lost his life in a ghastly automobile accident on Kano - Hadejia highway on Thursday night .
He was traveling from Kano to his hometown, Ringim.
The 48 year-old Deputy Speaker who is survived by four wives, 18 children and an aged mother has been buried according to Islamic rites.
After weeks of bickering between the National Assembly and the Executive, President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday signed the 2016 Appropriation Bill into law.
The budget signing which was done at a brief ceremony in the President’s office at the Presidential Villa, Abuja was witnessed by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo; President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara; Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, John Odigie-Oyegun; and chairmen of the Appropriation Committees of both chambers of the National Assembly.
The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun; the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), ItaEnang; and the Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives), Samaila Kawu were also present.
The Nigerian Army has inaugurated a Special Court Martial to try two of its senior officers for undisclosed offences.
The Judge advocate, Col. Ibrahim Musa, administered the oath on the President of the Special Court Martial, Air Vice-Marshal James Gbum and three others in Abuja on Thursday.
Musa disclosed that the special court was inaugurated to try two senior army officers, Maj.-Gen. Ibrahim Sanni and Maj.-Gen. Patrick Falola.
Musa read the conveying order for the court from the Chief of Army Staff which said in part, "by the power conferred on me by Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, I hereby convey this speech to every one of you in this Special Court.
" This court is saddled with the responsibility of trying the two officers.’’
Gbum pledged that the court would discharge its duties in accordance with the 1999 Constitution as amended, while taking into consideration, the Armed Forces Act, Service Evidence Act, Military Law and Rule of Procedure for trials.
The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN reports that six counsels would be appearing for the army, while two accused officers will be represented by two counsels.
The charges against the accused persons were however not disclosed.
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