Today's Headlines: PDP Deputy National Women Leader Resigns; Mob attacks cop as bus hits motorist on BRT lane

PDP Deputy National Women Leader Resigns

Her resignation is contained in a letter addressed to the Acting National Chairman of the Party, Ambassador Iliya Damagun.

Hajiya Hajara Yakubu Wanka, Deputy National Woman Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has resigned to take up an appointment as Commissioner in Governor Bala Mohammed’s administration in Bauchi State.

She noted in the letter that she was given an opportunity by Governor Mohammed to serve as commissioner in his government.

Wanka thanked the national leadership of PDP for the privilege accorded her to serve as Deputy National Woman Leader of the party.

She also thanked Governor Mohammed for the opportunity given to her to serve in his cabinet.

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP congratulated Wanka in a press statement issued on Monday by Hon. Debo Ologunagba, the party’s National Publicity Secretary.

Mob attacks cop as bus hits motorist on BRT lane

A mob, on Monday, descended on a yet-to-be-identified policeman after a man identified simply as Yusuf was hit by a BRT bus.

Yusuf was alleged to have been pushed by policemen in the Ketu area of Lagos State before he was crushed by the vehicle.

But the Lagos State Police Command claimed the policeman was not attacked, describing the incident as an accident.

It insisted that both the policeman and the driver were accident victims.

PUNCH Metro gathered from eyewitnesses that the policeman and his colleagues were attempting to impound Yusuf’s vehicle when he got pushed into the BRT lane.

In the process, one of the BRT buses plying the lane inward Lagos rammed into Yusuf who collapsed due to the impact of the crash.

Speaking with our correspondent, an eyewitness, who does not want her name mentioned, said the policemen were responsible for Yusuf’s ordeal, adding that he was injured as a result of the incident.

Sharia court remands labourer for allegedly stealing N8,500 ‘ponmo’

A 23-year-old man, Abdulwahab Yusuf, was on Tuesday arraigned in a Sharia Court sitting in Kano for allegedly stealing cow skin, (ponmo) worth N8,500.

Yusuf, who lives in the Tukuntawa Quarters area of the state, was charged with theft.

The Judge, Umar Lawal-Abubakar, ordered that the defendant, who pleaded guilty be remanded in a correctional centre.

Lawal-Abubakar adjourned the matter until August 22 for summary trial.

Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Inspector Abdullahi Wada, told the court that the complainant, Fatihu Auwal, who also resides in Tukuntawa Quarters, reported the matter at the Fagge Police Station, Kano, on August 5.

Wada reported that the defendant entered the complainant’s stand and stole the cow’s skin.

Lagos female LG chair denies forcing N650,000 birthday fabrics on staff

Executive Chairman, Ikosi Isheri LCDA, area of Lagos State, Samiat Bada, has denied online allegations of compelling her staff to buy N650,000.00 fabrics for her forthcoming 50th birthday.

Addressing the media at the council secretariat, in Lagos on Tuesday, Mrs Bada described the allegations as completely false and baseless.

Recall that an online medium reported a petition filed by Concerned Ikosi Isheri LCDA Residents against Mrs. Bada for selling N650.000.00 fabrics for her birthday at this difficult time.

The group had allegedly accused her of making it compulsory for councilors, supervisors, and workers to buy the fabrics, among other allegations leveled against her.

Mr.s Bada told newsmen that those allegations were part of a deliberate attempt to blackmail her, tarnish her reputation, and create unnecessary division within her administration.

“I stand before you today to address the recent allegations that have been circulating on social media in which the writer claimed that Iimposedana N650,000.00 Aso Ebi (traditional fabrics) on my staff.

Tinubu, ECOWAS have enough room to dialogue with Niger coup leaders – Bode George

A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olabode George said President Tinubu Bola and the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, have enough room to dialogue with leaders of the Niger coup.

George stated this while speaking in an interview with Arise Television on Tuesday.

He said, “When they meet tomorrow, I am advising that there’s enough room for dialogue, and the underlining crisis that is engaging all these francophone countries today dates back to the French approach to their system of colonialism. 

“While the British had colonies, the French had the principle of assimilation. In other words, they didn’t let go. There’s no French country in the whole of Africa where the French government does not have a minimum of a battalion stationed there,” he added.

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