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Austria’s Director-General, International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), Michael Spindelegger, made this known on Thursday in Abuja. The Government of Austria says it has completed the process of organising skills acquisition programmes for no fewer than 1000 Nigerian irregular migrants in Austria before their repatriation.

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the compulsory retirement of Justice A. F. A Ademola of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court and the dismissal from office of Justice O.O Tokode of the Benin Division of the Federal High Court. The approval was contained in a statement made available to journalists on Friday by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu.

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria on Thursday told President Muhammadu Buhari that the enormous goodwill with which he assumed office in 2015 is being fast depleted by some “glaring failures” of his government. The bishops said this when they paid the President a courtesy visit at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Emerging reports indicate that President Muhammadu Buhari's sister in-law Hajiya Aisha Mamman is dead. According to Dailytrust, the deceased was the wife of the late Alhaji Mamman Danbaffale, the elder brother to Buhari. The report hinted that Aisha Mamman died in the early hours of Thursday at the age of 75.

The Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for listening with humility to Catholic Bishops that visited him at the Aso Villa on Thursday. The Senator who reacted to the visit on Friday via his Twitter handle also applauded the Bishops for telling the President the truth about prevailing economic and political realities in the country.

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Kaduna state chapter has passed a vote of no confidence on the Federal Government over alleged inability to effectively tackle the issue of herdsmen crisis. The Secretary of the organization, Rev. Dr. Saunday Ibrahim who made this known in a statement released to newsmen in Kaduna on Thursday said the group would resist the establishment of cattle colony in the state.

Festus Keyamo, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, has come out against former Presidents, Ibrahim Babangida and Olusegun Obasanjo for advising President Muhammadu Buhari not to seek reelection in 2019. The fiery brand lawyer has described the statements credited to former Presidents asking President Muhammadu Buahri not to seek reelection as “hypocrisy at its best”.

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