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The country’s inflation sluggishly rose from 11.23 per cent in August to 11.28 per cent in September 2018. The rise was the second consecutive rise in headline inflation after 18 consecutive months of decline in the rate. This was contained in the Consumer Price Index of National Bureau of Statistics released on Tuesday. “The Consumer Price Index, which measures inflation, increased by 11.28 per cent year-on-year in September 2018. This is 0.05 per cent points higher than the rate recorded in August 2018 at 11.23 per cent,” the NBS said in the inflation report. It stated that on a month-on-month…

A serial killer and rapist of a six-year-old girl was, Wednesday, hanged at a prison in Lahore, Pakistan. Imran Ali was convicted of raping and murdering Zainab in Kasur, a city 50 kilometres from Lahore. The 23-year-old was executed this morning in Kot Lokhpat Central Jail in the presence of Magistrate Adil Sarwar, the girl’s father the girl’s uncle. Ali’s brother was also present along with two of his friends. An ambulance was also present during the hanging. The girl’s father had earlier filed a petition for his public hanging, but it was dismissed, as per PTI. A two-member Lahore…

October 1 every year is usually set aside for Nigerians and friends alike to join in commemorating the country’s independence gotten from the British colonial masters in 1960. Unlike the military era where the some celebration anniversaries were done in a low key form, the 58th independence anniversary was marked with pomps across the country. The civilians including school children took part in the march past and the military did parade and mounted Guard-of-Honour to mark the event. While the military and Nigerian legionnaires were marking the event on October 1 in grand style and also celebrating the country’s 18th…

TheNational Security Trust Fund Bill Tuesday passed a second reading at the House of Representatives.  The bill seeks to basically provide security agencies  with military and security hardware, infrastructure and technologies to aid in ensuring national security. Sponsor of the bill, Hon. Rimamnde Shawulu (PDP Taraba) at plenary said that the bill if successfully passed into law would settle the issue of budget constraints and poor renumeration of security personnel, inadequate equipment, poor state of available equipment, low level of training, limited manpower and poor maintenance culture. He said: “Budgetary constraint and the changing nature of security…

The Labour Party said Tuesday it will not field any candidate for the 2019 general elections as the party could not hold an all-inclusive National Convention as directed by the court. Mrs. Ebere Ifendu, National Publicity Secretary of the party, stated this at a news conference in Abuja, adding that the all-inclusive national convention involving all parties was necessary as directed by an Abuja Federal Court. “On October 2, 2018, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had written to the party to comply with the order of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court to conduct an all-inclusive National Convention.…

Senators, Tuesday, differed on a $3.5 billion budget recovery fund allegedly spent by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC. During the plenary, two senators of All Progressives Congress, APC- Kabir Marafa (Zamfara-APC) and Ali Ndume (Yobe-APC) sharply disagreed on the committee that should investigate the matter. Biodun Olujmi (Ekiti-PDP) had brought the matter to the notice of the Senate. “I bring an issue in today’s ThisDay newspaper and it’s about $3.5 billion budget recovery fund being used by the NNPC,” she said. “It is earmarked as subsidy recovery fund by the NNPC. Mr President since 1999, there has always been…

Nigeria’s Super Eagles, Tuesday, overpowered Libya’s Mediterranean Knights 3-2 goals in Tunisa to top Group E in the African Cup of Nations football competition slated for Cameroun next year. Super Eagles had beaten the Libyan national team 4-0 on Saturday at Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State Capital while Bafana Bafana of South Africa walloped Seychelles 6-0. Odion Ighalo scored two goals while Ahmed Musa netted one goal to give Nigeria the win. In another match, South Africa, Tuesday, played a goalless draw with Seychelles to garner eight points to be placed second in the group. Libya has…

A five-man investigating team set up by Mr. Ibrahim Idris, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), has arrived Akwa Ibom State, to unravel the truth on the recent attack in the residence of Mr. Nsima Ekere, the Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), it was learnt Tuesday. The team, classified as X-Squad, is being led by Mr. Yusuf Abdullahi, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Straightnews gathered. Unknown gunmen had reportedly shot severally into Ekere’s bedroom at his Ewet Housing home in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, soon after he was declared winner of the September 30,…

A police officer who served Bayelsa State Police Command while on patrol duty around Tombia junction in the state capital was Monday shot dead by suspected cultists. The killing, it was gathered, occurred around 5 p.m. A statement by DSP Asinim Butswat, spokesman of Bayelsa Police Command,  who confirmed the killing, said the killers were, however, unable to steal his service rifle. Butswat said: “A policeman was shot dead at Tombia. He was shot while the unit patrol vehicle was caught in a traffic jam. He came down to help with the heavy traffic and was shot by the suspected…

In an effort to neutralize the strength of terrorists’ activities on the cyber space, the Nigerian Army has established a cyber command centre. The command, according to the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai, is principally to empower the Nigerian Army with the capabilities to protect its data and network against cyber attacks and hostile elements. Speaking at the commissioning of the cyber operations centre of the Nigerian Army Cyber Warfare Command located at the Army Headquarters, Abuja on Monday, Buratai noted that cyber-warfare was “the fifth domain of warfare after land, sea, air and space.” According to…