The past 24 hours have recorded interesting happenings both on sports, education, health, politics and entertainment. Below are top national news.
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila has charged ethnic groups in the country to shun oppressive tendencies against other groups in order to end the currently raging ethnic tension in the country. The Speaker spoke to State House Correspondents on Wednesday after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja.
An Abuja based legal practitioner, Maxwell Okpara has asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to stop Mohammed Adamu from parading himself as the Inspector General of Police. The plaintiff is also asking the court to restrain Adamu from exercising any form of command over officers the Nigeria Police Force.
The speaker of Imo state House of Assembly, Paul Emeziem, has asked the members of the opposition to take the advantage of the ongoing registration exercise of the members of the All progressives Congress, APC, in Imo state and across the country so as to be registered officially as a member.
Umar Kure, one of the sons of the late ex-Niger governor Abdulkadir Kure, has taken his mother Senator Zenab Kure to the Sharia Court of Appeal, Niger State, challenging the distribution of his father’s estate by an Upper Sharia Court/Administrator.
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the establishment of 20 private universities across the country. The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, disclosed this to State House Correspondents on Wednesday after the week’s virtual FEC meeting, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, at the State House in Abuja.