Editorial

As the Senate gets ready to begin the consideration of the 2017 budget, the lawmakers on Wednesday approved the 2017-2019 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and the Fiscal Strategy Paper, MTEF/FSP, which was sent to the senate by President Muhammadu Buhari last year.

As the trial of Justice Adeniyi Ademola, continued on Wednesday, a third witness, Ojima Etuh, told the court that she never received nor laundered gratifications on behalf of the federal high court Judge.

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, says it is worried by the revelation that federal judges in the country have not received their salaries and allowances in the last four months,threatening to sue the federal government if the situation remain unchanged.

The trial of Sylvester Ngwuta, a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria,resumed on Wednesday, at the federal high court, Abuja, with the first prosecuting witness telling the court how Ngwuta paid him a total of N313 million for the construction of three sets of buildings in different areas in Ebonyi State, including Abakiliki the state’s capital.

Three people were reported killed and many others were injured on Tuesday night after hoodlums attacked a community called Samarun Kataf, in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State, residents say.

The International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, has expressed deep concern about the reported casualties among civilians and humanitarian workers in the accidental airstrikes that hit the Internally Displaced Persons Camp in Rann, Borno State, North East Nigeria.