INEC: names of successful applicants released

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has



 released names of successful applicants to observe the 2019



 elections.

This was disclosed on its official website

.

The commission in a statement announced that they will “Observe



 the 2019 general elections holding on 16th February, 2019 and 2nd



 March, 2019.

House of Representatives 

The approval came after the adoption of the report by the adhoc



committee set up on the New Minimum Wage Bill presented to the



National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday.

Passing the bill for the third reading on Tuesday, the lawmakers




unanimously approved the N30,000 recommendation by the




committee in consonance with the resolution by the tripartite






committee set up by the President.

Buhari had in the executive bill sought the approval of N27,000 as




against the N30,000 agreed by the stakeholders.

NJC to Onnoghen: you have seven days to respond to pettion against you

The National Judicial Council has given the suspended Chief



 Justice



 of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, and the acting CJN, Tanko



Muhammad, 

seven working days to respond to petitions against them.

The council gave the ultimatum at its emergency meeting held in



 Abuja on Tuesday. The two men did not attend the meeting.

A former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Umar




 Abdullahi, presided over the meeting as the interim chairman
.

President Muhammadu Buhari had suspended Onnoghen on Friday 




based on an ex parte order of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, 

Soldier Arrested In Bauchi Selling Stolen Phones

The Army’s Deputy Director of Media, Captain Sunday Akinkunmi, paraded a fake soldier who has been wearing military uniform to terrorize and rob people. Akinkunmi said the fake soldier is an indigene of Maiduguri, Borno State.
The 22-year-old was arrested

Woman Abandons Baby In A Refuse Dump

The baby who was neatly dressed, was put in a carton and left near a refuse dump along  Ikot Ekpene road, Akwa Ibom state.

A passerby, identified as Okon Isaac, who was on his way to a filling station along the area on Saturday, was said to have heard the cry of the baby and  reportedly traced the cry...