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Senate Orders Investigation Into DSS Court Invasion For Sowore’s Rearrest
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The Nigerian senate after its sitting today 12 December 2019 directed its Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters to look into the alleged Federal High Court invasion in Abuja by the DSS operatives to rearrest Omoyele Sowore, the publisher of Sahara Reporters and the convener of #RevolutionNow.
The resolution came as a result of a point of order moved by a Senator representing Ekiti Central, Senator Bamidele Opeyemi. The Senator citing order 43 of the House Standing Rules, brought the attention of the upper chamber to the alleged court invasion presided over by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court, Abuja.
Senator Bamidele while commenting, prayed the house to direct its Committee on National Security and Intelligence to investigate the case to enable the Red Chamber to come to conclusions based on the matter
Ahmed Lawan, the Senate president, said since the matter is a Judiciary matter, the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters under the Chairmanship of Senator Bamidele should look into the matter and report back to the Senate in one week.
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MVP Award For The NBA All-Star Now To Be Called The Kobe Bryant MVP Award
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February 16, 2020The NBA All-Star game has now to be called The Kobe Bryant MVP Award. NBA commissioner, Adam Silver made this announcement on Saturday 15th February.
The Kobe Bryant MVP Award will be given this Sunday at the closing of this year’s All-Star Game in Chicago. Both teams will be captained by Giannis Antetokounmpo and Lebron James respectively. Team Lebron will put on No 2 and team Giannis will put on No 24. These two numbers were worn by Gianna, Kobe’s daughter and Kobe Bryant.
Recall that Kobe won the All-Star Game MVP in 2002, 2007, 2009, and 2011. Also, he played as the youngest player to feature in the All-Star Game at 19 in 1998.
Modibbo Kawu, the DG of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has been put on suspension by President Buhari. This came following his corruption charges by the Independent Corrupt Practices, ICPC.
This development was confirmed by Armstrong Idachaba, NBC’s Director of Broadcast Monitoring. Further, the most senior director in the commission has been directed to take over from Modibbo Kawu.
Modibbo Kawu is currently facing a 12-count charge bordering on money laundering, abuse of office, and misleading a public officer with the intent of defrauding the government.
So, this contravenes Section 26 (1) (c) of the Corrupt Practices and other Related Offenses Act 2000 and punishable under Section 19 of the same Act.
Beisdes, Modibbo was first arraigned in May 2019 over the alleged misappropriation of N 2.5 billion for the digital switch-over (DSO) program of the government.
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Coronavirus In Africa As Egypt Records The First Case
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February 15, 2020The Health Ministry in Egypt has confirmed the first case of the deadly Coronavirus. The authorities made this disclosure on Friday 14th February in a press release. They said the World Health Organization has been informed and the patient is in isolation for monitoring and treatment.
The patient’s nationality was not given. However, Egypt is the 28th country in the world to record Coronavirus and the first in Africa.
So, over 64,000 cases of the Coronavirus have been diagnosed around the world and 1,363 persons have been confirmed dead since its outbreak in Wuhan, China