Dr Olisa Agbakoba, Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN)

Dr Olisa Agbakoba, Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), has sued the Federal Government over what he described as “lopsided appointments” at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). He said the appointments contravened “the provisions of section 14 of the constitution and also the federal character commission act and the provisions of sections 42 of the constitution of Nigeria that prohibits discrimination of any of Nigeria’s ethnic groups such as, in this case, the south-east”.

The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra has insisted that forthcoming governorship election in Anambra will not hold as boycotting the elections is the only card left on the table for its members and Biafrans living in the state to demonstrate their resolve for a referendum.
The group has ordered its members and other freedom fighters in the area to stay at home on voting day November 18.

The Kaduna State government is proposing a budget size of about 201,049,213,385.77 naira for its 2018 fiscal year. The budget is made up of recurrent expenditure of personnel and over heads of over 75 billion naira while that of capital expenditure is projected at over a hundred and twenty five billion naira.

Kidnapping suspect and billionaire kidnapper, Onwumadike Chukwudumeme, also known as Evans to escape from his prison cell has been uncovered by men of the Nigerian Police Force. Evans is alleged to have attempted to give between $50,000 and $100,000 to one of the guards manning his cell to facilitate his escape, The Nation reports.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, says it will on Wednesday, commence a series of training for different categories of officers for the November 18 Anambra governorship election. The acting Director-General of The Electoral Institute, Dr Sa’ad Umar Idris said the training of Electoral Officers/ Assistant Electoral Officers (Operations) would hold from October 11 to October 13 while that of Assistant Electoral Officers (AEOs) Admin and Cluster would take place from October 16 to October 20 in Awka, the state’ s capital.

The 6 Division of the Nigerian Army, headquartered in Port Harcourt has begun Operation Crocodile Smile II in Niger Delta. The Division is holding multi-agency confidence building patrol in Rivers State. The exercise according to the military is to combat the menace of kidnapping, armed robbery and other criminalities in the region.