Jonathan caused our 2015 poll loss — PDP Vice Chair

The National Vice Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party, South-South, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, has said the party lost the 2015 election because former President Goodluck Jonathan did not allow a northerner to be the party’s candidate.

Ojougboh stated this while speaking with journalists in Abuja on Saturday.

LASTMA official slumps on traffic duty

An official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority on Saturday slumped while controlling traffic in the Idi Araba area of Lagos.

The official, whose identity could not be ascertained as of the time our reporter left the scene, was among those controlling a heavy traffic along Ishaga Road allegedly caused by an event at the Chapel of the Healing Cross, Idi-Araba.

Buhari refuses to meet with Saraki

President Muhammadu Buhari has resisted fresh moves by the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, to formally meet with him, SUNDAY PUNCH has learnt.

An official in the Presidency who confided in one of our correspondents on Saturday said the President and the Senate President had only met once since the latter’s emergence as the leader of the senate.

The official said all efforts by Saraki to have another meeting with the president, after the party’s National Executive Council meeting penultimate Friday, were rebuffed by Buhari.

Lawyers Query Conferment Of SAN On Wole Olanipekun’s Son

The LPPC  approved Dr. Oladapo Olumide Olanipekun along with 20 others for formal investiture as SAN, the highest rank for practicing Nigerian attorneys.

In separate interviews with SaharaReporters, three Nigerian lawyers alleged that the LPPC erred in awarding the SAN rank to Olabode, whose father, Wole Olanipekun, is one of Nigeria’s most prominent attorneys. The older Olanipekun was a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA).

President Buhari recalls Nigerian ambassadors

President Muhammadu Buhari has recalled Nigerian ambassadors in foreign countries.

Media reports say that the ambassadors were recalled as part of efforts to reposition the country’s foreign policies.

Kogi Judge, Justice Obayomi released, after 34 days in kidnappers’ den

It was not until Saturday, June 27, that the Kogi State High Court judge, Justice Samuel Obayomi, kidnapped by gunmen on May 25, could breath the air of freedom. By then, he has spent 34 days in his abductors’ custody.

According to Vanguard, the state Commissioner for Police,  Ogunjemilusi, who confirmed his release, said the judge was released in the night between 10:00 and 11:30.

Buhari cuts own salary by half

The presidency has said President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo would only receive, in the next four years, 50 percent of the salary paid to their predecessors.

A statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said the President’s decision to take a 50 per cent pay cut was conveyed to the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation yesterday by the Permanent Secretary of the State House, Mr. Nebolisa Emodi.