The Nigerian
PUBLISHED SINCE MAY 29, 1968 • Vol . 39 • NO.019 TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2 0 14 • N100.00 BOTTOMLINE Page 15
The Emirs and inter-religious relations
Edo Compol wants improved police community relations By CLIFFORD AGBAJOR
BENIN CITY - Edo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Foluso Adebanjo has stressed the need for more police community Relations
Committees (PCRC) in the state to foster a better relationship between the police and the public. He made the remark during a chat with newsmen at the Award/ fund raising ceremony of
police community Relations Committee, New Benin Division, which took place in Benin City, last weekend. The commissioner who was represented at the ceremony by ACP, Rabiu
Dayi, appreciated the reception being accorded PCRC by the people. He esepressed the hope that the formation of more PCRC in the state will further enhance the Continues on page 2
Edo Assembly Crisis
Lawmakers exchange blows By KEN ABU
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Egypt sentences 4 Al-Jazeera reporters
BENIN CITY – The crisis in Edo State House of Assembly yesterday took a new turn as the lawmakers openly exchanged blows to prove their points even as they locked themselves out of the assembly complex. lawmakers engaged The assembly has each other in a free-forbeen in crisis since June all in the early hours of 9, 2014 following the suspension of their legislators, including the Deputy Speaker, Hon. Festus Ebea. The suspended legislators and their supporters had blocked the main entrance to the complex thereby preventing staff of the Assembly from entering the complex. The Police, however, managed to bring the situation under control when some of the
... reconvenes today
the day. Meanwhile, Hon. Uyi Igbe the Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly said that the House could not hold its plenary session with the
suspended lawmakers who were visibly present at the state assembly complex. The Speaker further said that the House adjourn plenary session
to today, saying that they (lawmakers) were law abiding citizens who expected the suspended lawmakers to obey the court injunction barring them from entering the
No sacrifice too much for Chibok girls IIORIN - A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Kawu Baraje, said no sacrifice would be too much to secure the release of the abducted Chibok girls. Speaking with newsmen at the graduation ceremony of Baraje Centre for Arabic and Islamic Studies, llorin, the chieftain said the country should consider the swap option being canvassed by the insurgents. “If the United States of
- Baraje
America swapped five prisoners to secure the life of an America soldier, it will not be too much for the Federal Government to negotiate and meet the sect’s condition for the release of the abducted girls. “Whatever kind of appeasement that will appease the people that are holding these girls should be done, whether negotiation, whether transition, we saw Continues on page 2
TIT BIT “Decide on where to concentrate your efforts; how we died can never be as important as how we lived.” - Kingsley Ogbeide-Ihama
EDHA CRISIS: APC Legislators sitting in a Police van from right: Hon. Kabiru Adjoto, Hon. Johnson Oghuma and others following the inability of the warring factions to agree on those to attend yesterday’s sitting. Photo: LUCKY AGIE.
complex. He further said the suspended lawmakers, following their defection to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) hurriedly sought a court injunction restraining the House from declaring their seats vacant, an order the Speaker averred that the parliament complied with. The Speaker said it was difficult for him to fathom why a group who first secured a court order could not obey another court order. The lawmakers, including the suspended four lawmakers following the intervention of the Commissioner of Police, however, agreed to leave the premises of the State Assembly Complex when they were assured that only policemen should be seen around the complex till 8 a.m. today when both parties reconvene at the main entrance of the assembly complex to determine the next line of action. Meanwhile, the Continues on page 2
Another blast kills 8, injure 12 in Kano
KANO - The Police in Kano State said in Kano yesterday that eight persons died following a bomb blast at the Kano State School of Hygiene located on BUK Road. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Aderenle Shinaba, announced this when he briefed newsmen shortly after visiting the scene. He added that 12 persons were injured in the explosion which occurred at about 2.05 p.m.
“There was an explosion in the school this afternoon and it happened right inside the school premises; that is why we had to move in. “I want to confirm to you
LAGOS - The British High Commission on Monday urged Nigerians to take note of the changes it had made in its visa application centres in
that 20 people were moved to the hospital, but eight were confirmed
dead and 12 others injured’’, he said. He also said one suspect had been arrested and was undergoing interrogation at the police
headquarters. The commissioner said the vehicle used by the suspect had also been towed to the police headquarters. Continues on page 2
Lagos. The commission announced this in Lagos in a statement signed by
its Head of Press and Public Affairs, Mr Robert Fitzpatrick. It said that
Teleperformance Ltd would as from July 1, 2014 take over the Continues on page 2
UK makes changes in Visa Application cases