Today's Headlines: N'Delta Women Storm NASS Sept 26, Want Senate President Out, Wike Assumes Office As FCT Minister
N’Delta Women Storm NASS Sept 26, Want Senate President Out
Photo credit: vanguard newspaper
Women under the aegis of Niger Delta Women League NDWL have vowed to march on the National Assembly in September 26 to demand for the resignation of Senate President Godswill Akpabio.
The women disclosed this in a statement issued Monday in Abuja.
Those signed the statement are the National President, Hon. Sheila Abiye Tamuno; Rivers state Coordinator, Ajemina Gobo; Bayelsa State Co-ordinator, Madam Eureal Allagoa; Cross River State Co-coordinator, Elizabeth Moses Bassey; Imo State Coordinator, Eucharia Ezidimma Ewurum; and, Edo State Coordinator, Madam Isesele Francisca Ofure.
(Photo credit: Google)
Wike Assumes Office As FCT Minister
Photo credit: vanguard newspaper
Newly sworn-in Federal Capital Territory FCT minister, Nyesom Wike on Monday assumed office, with a pledge to restore the city’s master plan.
At his maiden news conference, he said land allottees who have been given Certificates of Occupancy but failed to develop would also lose their lands to give way to those ready to build.
“If you know you have built where you are not supposed to build, it will go down”, he said.
Robbers Attack PoS Shop, Kill Couple In Imo
Photo credit: channels television
The Imo State Police Command, on Monday, confirmed the killing of a couple by armed robbers, while attempting to rob a point-of-sale (PoS) shop along Egbu Road in Owerri, the state capital.
The police spokesman in the state, Henry Okoye, who spoke to Channels Television, said the command received a distress call last Sunday night that robbers had attacked the shop owned by “a young man”.
The assailants reportedly dispossessed the owner of the PoS shop of his belongings and cash, in the process shooting the parents of the shop owner who came out to intervene before making away with the loot.
Kaduna Reduces Tuition Fees For State-owned Tertiary Institutions
Photo credit: channels television
The Kaduna State government has reduced tuition fees for state-owned tertiary institutions as part of efforts to cushion the effect of the rising cost of living in the wake of the petroleum subsidy removal.
The tuition fees were slashed between 30 to 50 percent for students of the Kaduna State University, Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic, and Kaduna State College of Education, Gidan Waya among others.
Governor Uba Sani, who announced the tuition fees reduction at a news conference on Monday, said the move is in response to an outcry over fees charged by tertiary institutions in the state and its effect on school enrolment and retention.
TLucky (
)
