GRAPHITTI NEWS : 2016-07-10

Saturday, July 16, 2016

Senate’s Claim Proposal To Impeach Buhari "A Fabrication" Is Untrue; Presidency Not Fooled By Denials

A session of Nigeria's Eighth Senate

PREMIUM TIMES checks show the claim by the Nigerian Senate that it did not discuss a proposal to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari at its executive session on Tuesday is false.

MSF volunteers work during the Ebola outbreak in August AFP/Getty Images

Sierra Leone declared Friday that it would stop the mandatory testing of all dead bodies for the Ebola virus, lifting a restriction put in place at the end of an outbreak that claimed thousands of lives.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte speaks during the Testimonial Dinner Reception in Manila, on July 14, 2016 ©- (Presidential Communication Operations Office/AFP)

President Rodrigo Duterte met with a businessman he accused of being one of the Philippines' top drug lords and threatened to kill him to his face.

Umoru (left) and Sanda

A herdsman arrested by the Oyo State Police Command for robbery, Amidu Umoru, said it was his destiny to rob despite being a herdsman.

Image montage source: Daily Mail UK

President Erdogan (top left) has vowed revenge on those who tried to oust him in a bloody military coup (pictured) that killed 42 people - 17 of them police officers - as his supporters clashed with the rebel forces in the streets of Turkey.

A tank moves into position as Turkish people attempt to stop them, in Ankara, Turkey, late Friday, July 15, 2016. Members of Turkey's armed forces said they had taken control of the country, but Turkish officials said the coup attempt had been repelled early Saturday morning in a night of violence, according to state-run media.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Erdogan Asks Turkish People To Thwart Coup Attempt

*Military claims to be in charge after a coup *Government officials say coup will be put down, instigators will be punished

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged people, in a broadcast transmitted from a hotel in which he is hiding, to take to the streets and stand up to the military during the coup.

The Turkish military has taken over the government and imposed martial law, according to an announcement read by an anchor on state broadcaster TRT.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says he will send a former president to China to start talks on the ruling on the disputed claims of the South China Sea from The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration ©HO (PCOO/AFP)

The Philippines will concede nothing to China after an international tribunal outlawed Beijing's claims to most of the South China Sea, a Filipino official said Friday.

FROM LEFT: General Manager, Legal, Licencing and Enforcement, National Elecricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Mrs Olufunke Dinneh; Acting Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NERC, Dr Anthony Akah and Deputy General Manager, NERC, Mr Bassey Ayambem, during a news conference on the judgement of a Federal Court in Lagos reversing the existing Electricity Tariff Regime, in Abuja on Thursday (15/7/16). 5096/15/7/2016/TA/BJO/NAN

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has rejected the order of the Federal High Court, Lagos, declaring the February 1 electricity tariff raise illegal.

A 31-year-old man has been identified by police as the driver who plowed a truck into crowds celebrating Bastille Day in the southern French City of Nice. The killer, a 31-year-old French Tunisian named by local newspaper Nice Matin as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, mounted pavements at high speed and ploughed through crowds celebrating Bastille Day in Nice last night.

JONAPWD wants regular schools to include children with disabilities.

Among an estimated 10 million children reported out of school in Nigeria by the UN Children's Emergency Fund, more than 3 million of them are children with disabilities because "school environments are not inclusive and accessible" to them, says the Joint National Associations of Persons with Disabilities, JONAPWD.

Minister of Budget and Planning, Udoma Udo Udoma

Big cash crunch has hit Nigeria – no thanks to poor returns from oil and the inability of revenue agencies to meet their targets.

Even taxi drivers are aware of this craze for what is euphemistically called "Cough Syrup" amongst the initiates. It is a high like never before, as an insider describes the feeling from using the concoction containing the opiate.

A truck ploughed through a large group of people in Nice during a suspected terrorist attack which claimed 'dozens of lives'

The French Interior Ministry has announced the death toll has reached 84.

RT News reports that scores of people have been killed and dozens more injured after a truck plowed through a crowd during Bastille Day celebrations in Nice, in what has been called “the worst attack” in the city’s history. A truck driver has been killed by police.

Chinoso Okonkwo

The police in Lagos State have arrested a 32-year-old woman, Chinoso Okonkwo, for allegedly using pupils of some secondary schools in the Ikate, Surulere area, as commercial sex workers.

President Muhammadu Buhari

The Senate on Thursday expressed surprise that the All Progressives Congress leadership made comments on mere speculation and fabrication by an online publication on a purported plan to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari.

FOR THE RECORD: May God Save Abuja Pastor’s Killers, Says Adeboye

Photo: RCCG

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has said the church does not want justice for its slain member, Mrs. Eunice Olawale.

Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Liberia's failure to pass a long-awaited law recognizing the rights of rural communities to their ancestral lands could plunge the West African nation back into civil war, a coalition of civil society groups said on Thursday.

Photo: EbiraReporters

Students of Kogi State University, Thursday morning, shut down the state capital, Lokoja, leaving many travelers stranded, in protest of the prolonged closure of their school.

Secretary to the Government of the Federation, David Babachir Lawal

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, on Wednesday insisted that it would not be possible to fund the constituency projects of National Assembly members as contained in the 2016 Budget because of the paucity of funds.

British government-supported firms are engaged in a piratical contest for African natural resources as part of a new colonialist “scramble for Africa,” a major new report claims.

Olorunshogo IPP

• NLC lauds ruling

Nigerians won a major battle yesterday against darkness. A Federal High Court in Lagos declared the upward review of tariff by the National Electricity Regulation Commission (NERC) illegal and directed a reversal to the status quo.

President Muhammadu Buhari flanked by (from left) Governors Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi), Aminu Bello Masari (Katsina), Abdulaziz Yari (Zamfara) and Aminu Waziri Tambuwal (Sokoto) during the commission road project in Zamfara yesterday.

President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that the era of free money is gone in the country, saying there is no easy money to throw around.

Acting Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris

Six persons, including four policemen and two kidnappers, were killed on Tuesday in Ubima, Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State in a gun duel between the two groups.

Next UN Chief Ballots Remain Secret, Despite Televised Debates

This montage shows 9 of the 12 candidates for the next United Nations secretary general. Upper row from left to right: Montenegro's deputy prime minister and foreign minister Igor Luksic, former president of Slovenia Danilo Turk, former prime minister of Portugal and former UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres. Middle row from left to right: former Croatian foreign minister Vesna Pusic, director-general of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Irina Bokova, former minister of foreign affairs and European integration of Moldova Natalia Gherman. Bottom row from left to right: President of the 62th session of the United Nations General Assembly and former minister of foreign affairs of Macedonia Srgjan Kerim, former Prime Minister of New Zealand and Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Helen Clark, President of the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly and former Foreign Minister of the Republic of Serbia Vuk Jeremic. (Xinhua/Li Muzi)

Ten of the 12 candidates vying to be the next United Nations Secretary-General took part in live televised debates on Tuesday, a first for the world body, but attempts to bring unprecedented transparency to the race will not extend to the Security Council selection process.

FG Begs Oil Majors Not To Retrench Workers

The Federal Government has appealed to major oil marketers operating in the country not to retrench workers in the oil and gas sector.

The Federal Government on Tuesday appointed Hadiza Bala-Usman as Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA).

Nigeria's National Assembly

The House of Representatives on Tuesday slipped into a tumult over a bill seeking to provide immunity for principal officers of the National Assembly.

Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal gets injured during the Euro 2016 final match between Portugal and France at Stade de France in Paris on July 10, 2016. Credit: Metin Pala/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Portugal and Real Madrid Superstar Cristiano Ronaldo will be out injured for 4-5 months according to reports coming out from Spain and Madrid.

Paul Le Guen

Nigeria Football Federation officials may have finally settled for Frenchman Paul Le Guen as the next Super Eagles coach.

University of Ibadan Main Gate Photo: sirkenayo.com

The Centre for World University Rankings (CWUR) has just released its 2016 ranking of universities across the world.

An arbitration court ruled on Tuesday that China has no historic title over the waters of the South China Sea and that it has breached the sovereign rights of the Philippines with its actions there, infuriating a defiant Beijing.

Electric power lines

Electric power distributing firms are pushing for a fresh 100% increase in electricity tariff, the second in six months, Daily Trust investigations have shown.

The Federal Ministry of Education yesterday said only the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) can admit students into universities.

PHOTONEWS: Wife Of Vice President Visits Family Of Murdered Evangelist

Wife of the Vice President, Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo speaking to the widower Pastor Olawale Elisha. Images source: Samson Adeboga/Facebook

The Vice President’s wife, Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo, visited the family of murdered evangelist and deaconess at the Divine Touch Parish of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Mrs Eunice Olawale Elisha, in Abuja yesterday.

Police looking into the disappearance of missing author Helen Bailey (left), from Royston in Hertfordshire, arrested a man from the area this morning and are holding him in custody. Helen, 51, (pictured, top right with her partner Ian) who wrote the teenage fiction series 'Electra Brown' and 'Daisy Davenport', was last seen on Monday April 11 at around 2.45pm when she left her large detached house. Forensics officers have since been seen searching her property (bottom right) as well as heathland in the area.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder as police continue to look into the disappearance of author Helen Bailey.

Image sources: AU Summit planning

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, on Monday said Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will lead Nigeria’s delegation to the 27th Ordinary Session of the African Union starting on July 18 in Kigali, Rwanda.

President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger on Monday proposed setting up of a multinational West African force to fight terrorism.

This photo taken on June 30, 2016 shows a young boy suffering from severe acute malnutrition lying on the ground at one of the UNICEF nutrition clinics, in the Muna informal settlement, which houses nearly 16,000 internally displaced people ©Stefan Heunis (AFP)

Urgent funding is needed to keep thousands of people alive in Boko Haram-hit northeast Nigeria, the UN said Monday, stressing that the situation borders on famine and compares to crises in Darfur and South Sudan.

Police in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have arrested six persons over the murder of a female evangelist at the Gbazango-West area of Kubwa, Abuja.

India has the most transparent companies while Chinese firms are the most opaque, according to a global anti-graft watchdog's survey released Monday that assesses efforts by emerging market companies to fight corruption.

Scrapping Post-UTME Does Not Stop Schools From Screening Students-- Prof. Dibu Ojerinde.

One week after the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) allegedly approved the point system option for admission into tertiary institutions in the country, the body insists that the Federal Government-approved option still holds sway.

UPDATED: How Female Redeemed Preacher Was Killed During Morning Evangelism

Mrs. Eunice Elisha

A deaconess in the Redeemed Christian Church of God and mother of seven, Mrs. Eunice Elisha, was on Saturday morning killed by unknown assailants while preaching around the Gbazango-West area of Kubwa, a satellite town in the Federal Capital Territory.

AIG M. J. Mbu, who was retired by the Police Service Commission on July 2nd, had his pulling out ceremony at the Police Staff College Jos, Plateau state yesterday July 9th (Image credit: Owai Obo, Image source: lindaikejiblog.com)

Perhaps Nigeria’s most controversial police officer of the modern era, Joseph Mbu, on Saturday formally bowed out of the force after 31 years in service, with an appeal to the Nigerian media not to exaggerate his “sins” and those of his colleagues.

Acting Inspector General of Police, Idris Ibrahim

A female early morning preacher was yesterday found dead in Bolar – pipeline area of Kubwa in Abuja. The woman is believed to be a wife of a pastor in the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG).

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