Good Morning! Here are 10 things you need to know this morning: Monday 24,March 2014 1. Indication emerged on Sunday that, Interior Minister, Abba Moro and Comptroller General, Nigeria Immigration Service, David Paradang would on Tuesday appear before the Senate Committee on Interior to clarify some burning issues regarding the controversial Immigration recruitment which led to the death of over 18 people. 2. Sad report from Borno state this morning says over 29 people have been killed in a bomb attack launched on a Market by suspected Islamist Sect, Boko Haram. Report says the Islamist group bombed the market located in Nguro-Soye, near Bama, Borno State. 3.Youth and families who are still looking for persons believed to be missing stormed Soka forest, Ibadan, Oyo State yesterday. The forest is believed to be a ritual killers’ den where over 20 dead bodies were recovered. While some families felt disappointed that the faces they were tracing could not be found, the youth were seen killing cows belonging to herdsmen and attacking security companies close to the forest. Relatively, 7 suspects have been arrested in connection with the crime. 4. Rising from their meeting in Ogbia local government of Bayelsa state on Saturday, some Bayelsa State indigenes, particularly from Ogbia LGA have said that whether President Jonathan likes it or not, he must contest the 2015 presidential election. They insisted that no other person must win the 2015 election but Jonathan. 5. Delegates at the National Conference have resolved to revoke the accreditation of any media representative at the ongoing conference whose report fails to communicate the true situation of things at the conference. The delegates said the essence is to feed the public with authentic details of what transpires at their various sittings. 6. A former Minister of Education, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, has further condemned the Ministry of Interior as well as Immigration Service for organising a job test for 500,000 people when only 4500 of them would be given employment. He said the motive behind it was to dupe applicants as they were all made to pay 1000 naira each. The Minister faulted the federal government for not using other honourable things to compensate the family of the decease, but the same job. 7. The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC has supported the ongoing probe of the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Madueke, by the House of Representative, saying that such probe should be extended to other Ministers and state governors who are culpable of squandering the wealth of the nation on themselves. 8. On sports, Nigeria’s Flamingoes top its group in the ongoing Under 17 Women’s World Cup by beating Mexico 3:0. Nigeria will now play Spain in a Quarter-Final match. 9.The United Nations has published the Joint Letter of Concern that it sent to the government of President Goodluck Jonathan where they expressed concerns that access to electricity (and regularity of supply) was a significant problem in Nigeria. In the letter which the government was yet to respond to, 8 questions were raise as to why Nigerians should be suffering from epileptic power supply. 10. Lastly, Rivers state chapter of the APC has castigated President Goodluck Jonathan for his inability to fight corruption and take the country beyond its present status. In a statement by its Senior Special Assistant to the state chairman of the party, Eze Chukwuemeka, the party Said that Abacha government, comparatively was better than Jonathan’s. ******** To all my fans,I say a BIG thank you for your encouragement comments,I shall not let you down
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 09:46:16 +0000
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