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…To ban use of generators that run on diesel, kerosene, petrol By Henry Umoru SENATE has begun moves to jail anyone selling/buying generator for a period of ten years respectively. The bill seeks to ban the importation and use of generating sets (generators) in the Country and to curb the menace of environmental pollution. The Generating Set( Prohibition/ Ban) Bill, 2020( SB.366 was read the first time at Plenary Wednesday in the Senate. The Bill is sponsored by the Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Muhammed Enagi Bima, All Progressives Congress, APC, Niger South. With the proposed bill, “All persons are hereby directed to stop the use of electricity generating sets which run on diesel/petrol/kerosene of all capacities with immediate effect in the country.” Read also: No casualty recorded in Enugu market inferno – Police According to the document obtained on the Bill, “Prohibition/Ban on Importation of generating sets. Any person who- Impo...

By Emma Una – Calabar Students of Federal College of Education have allegedly shot Mr. Gabriel Amawu, a Divisional Police Officer in charge of the Obudu division in northern Cross River State dead. The incident took place on Tuesday night when students said to be from the College in conjunction with village hoodlums went to rescue some students arrested and detained in the station. A source in the area who prefers anonymity told Vanguard that  “Some youths and students of the  College were celebrating an end to their examinations when Amawu, suspecting criminal activity, made some arrests which degenerated into a protest by the students”. READ ALSO: Cross river Judiciary: Gov Ayade acted in strict compliance with the constitution — Hon Idagbo The students then mobilised and went to the station to protest the arrest of their colleagues and in the ensuing confusion, the DPO was shot. DSP Irene Ugbo the Public Relations Officer for the Cross River Police Command said the ...

 AMERICAN-BASED Nigerian activist and founder of US-NIGERIA LAW GROUP, Emmanuel Ogebe yesterday described the dethronement of the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, as unconstitutional, blaming the nation’s leaders for always doing the absurd. In his first reaction, Mr. Ogebe said: “Today as I hear that Sanusi has been deposed as Emir under the presidency of Buhari no less, much as I was highly critical of President Goodluck Jonathan even more than of Buhari, I must give him kudos for not thrusting himself into Sanusi’s Emirship matter. “History is slowly vindicating President Jonathan on many fronts in his lifetime. Like biblical David, he had the opportunity to takeout his hunter in the cave but he chose not to soil his hands in blood. “Next I wish to comment on the reports that Sanusi has been arrested and banished from Kano state which raises several concerns: Banishment was a tool used by British invaders to unseat legitimate indigenous authorities such as King Jaja of Opo...

An FCT High Court sitting in Nyanya on Wednesday sentenced a ”peacemaker”, Mohammed Tijani to death by hanging for killing a man who was fighting another in front of his barbershop. The police charged Tijani , an 18- year old barber on a count -charge of culpable homicide in June 2017. Delivering judgment, Justice Peter Kekemeke, held that the prosecution had proved its case beyond reasonable doubts. He held that the confessional statement made by Tijjani to the police established the commission of the offence by the defendant. Kekemeke held that there is a piece of evidence in the confessional statement which point at the guilt of the defendant. ” The law is that there is no evidence stronger than a person’s own admission of confession. ALSO READ: Court remands 18-year-old for allegedly burning neighbour’s house ” There is also the evidence of the PW1 outside the confessional statement which made it possible to believe that the confession is true ” he held. He held that from th...

…CBN to fund local drugs production, specialist hospitals NNPC GMD, Melee Kyari Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief Faced with global oil price crash, the Group Managing Director (GMD) Mr. Mele Kyari has alerted the nation of the consequences, asking Nigerians to prepare for trouble. Oil prices have fallen to about $32 per barrel while Nigeria’s federal government 2020 budget was benchmarked at $57 per barrel. READ ALSO: German footballer contracts coronavirus as Bundesliga goes behind closed doors Even at that low price, he revealed that demand for crude had fallen so much 50 cargoes of Nigeria’s crude had not found buyers. Mr. Kyari spoke this morning, at the on-going Consultative Roundtable on the economy in Abuja. In his address, the CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, disclosed that the apex bank would fund local drugs production and the establishment of specialist hospitals in the country.

The coronavirus crisis continues to unfold across the globe as the World Health Organization uses the word for the first time. A worker wearing protective clothes disinfects the inside of a public bus in Bratislava, Slovakia, on Wednesday. Vladimir Simicek / AFP - Getty Images Updated March 11, 2020, 11:51 PM WAT For the first time, the World Health Organization called the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, a pandemic. Meanwhile, the United States now has more than 1,000 people infected with the coronavirus — but testing in the country is still ramping up, meaning that number could continue to climb. WHO  defines a pandemic  as the worldwide spread of a new disease for which most people do not have immunity. On Wednesday, the governor of New York questioned the number of people who have been tested for the virus in the U.S. “When they do the retrospective on this one, they are going to say, 'Why did it take the Un...