Editorial

The trial of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, resumed on Tuesday and during the hearing, Kanu’s counsel, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, told the court that the Department of State Services, DSS, were responsible for the death of some people who had visited the Biafran activist in prison.

Members of the senate have resolved to invite the Ministers of Transportation, Aviation and Power, works and housing over the decision by the federal government to shutdown the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja for six weeks.

Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai, has announced the arrest of some of the perpetrators of the various violent attacks that claimed several lives in the southern part of the state.

The senate has rejected President Muhammadu Buhari’s nomination of Akintunde Akinwande, as the chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC.

Italian prosecutors have accused former president Goodluck Jonathan and former minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison Madueke of benefiting from the $1.3 billion Malabu oil deal involving oil giants Shell and ENI.

Select leaders of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, has reiterated the resolve of the entire sub-region that President of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, must quit office at the expiration of his tenure, having lost the presidential election held in the country in December.