President Buhari approves Magu’s suspension – Malami
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the suspension of embattled acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN) has confirmed.
Malami said this in a statement by his spokesman, Umar Gwandu, on Friday.
Read Also: Magu battles for bail as EFCC chiefs face panel The statement reads in part: “President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate suspension of Ibrahim Magu as Ag. Chairman EFCC in order to allow for unhindered inquiry by the Presidential Investigation Panel under the Tribunals of Inquiry Act and other relevant laws.”
The Lagos state house of assembly lawmaker, Tunde Braimoh populally known as Big Daddy passed away early this morning.
Until his death, he was a Barrister at law and the chairman’s house committee on information, security, and strategy in the Lagos state house of Assembly.
His cause of death is yet to be ascertained as of the time of filing this report.
Late Barrister Tunde Braimoh
It can be recalled that a senator from Kosofe LGA, Bayo Osinowo, recently died of COVID-19.
Bala Ciroma is the new appointed EFCC Acting Chairman.
The FCT Commissioner of Police, Bala Ciroma has been appointed to replace the suspended Ibrahim Magu as the new Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)
The Nigerian super Eagles striker Paul Onuachu has tested positive for coronavirus, according to his Belgian club Genk. His club mates and compatriots Stephen Odey and Cyril Dessers tested negative.
The 26-year-old striker is the only that tested positive to corona virus in the club.
“In the run-up to the first exhibition game of the season, the entire Genk group was tested yesterday (Tuesday). Everyone tested negative except Onuachu,” a report on Belgian website hln.be stated.
The 6ft7in striker left Belgium for Nigeria on May 27, alongside fellow Eagles strikers Victor Osimhen and Imoh Ezekiel.
He returned to his club June 28 after he was stranded for a week in Lagos due to travel restrictions caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
According to hln.be, Onuachu will miss Genk’s first exhibition game of the season against Eendracht Termien on Thursday as he will be quarantined for a week.
Onuachu’s COVID-19 status has however raised concerns within the Genk squad as he had trained intensively with the rest of the squad for more than a week now.
Onuachu joined Genk from Danish club FC Midtjylland last summer and scored 10 goals for the club before the Belgian Pro Division season was ended abruptly due to COVID-19.
Final year secondary school students in Nigeria won’t participate in the forthcoming West African Examination Council(WAEC) examinations, the Federal Government has declared.
The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, who disclosed this to State House Correspondents on Wednesday after the week’s virtual Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, also said there is no date for school resumption yet.
He said he would prefer Nigerian students lose an academic year to expose them to dangers.
One of Nigeria’s foremost communication experts, Richie Dayo Johnson is dead. He died in London today, after a heart attack.
He was 60 years old. He would have been 61 on 22 July.
RDJ as he’s fondly called was a highly-sought after MC and toastmaster. He was an alumnus of University of Teesside, Middlesbrough and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a certified coach and an accomplished toastmaster.
Late Richie Dayo Johnson
RDJ worked and spent years in Europe as one of the key strategists and presenters on Radio Kudirat – the voice of democracy during the military era.Richie Dayo Johnson (RDJ).
He later came to Nigeria to work with TVC and Radio Continental.
Johnson is survived by his wife and three adult children.
The grandpa who is identified as Jude Chukwuka went viral on the web when he was recorded in-camera while singing the song.
Jude Chukwuka and Niramerly
Old men might not be familiar with current songs since many reflect on nostalgic art but Jude did otherwise. He sang the song correctly without twisting the lyrics nor finding it difficult to deliver exactly as Naira Marley sang it.
With this, Naira Marley posted the video on his Twitter which he indicated that 1million naira set for the grandpa.
Chidima Late dad was born in March 1st 1932, he passed away in June 20 2020. Hete is what his beautiful and brilliant daughter wrote about her late dad.
“And just like that my life has changed forever. June 7, there was Daddy on our weekly family zoom call, talking and laughing. June 8, he felt unwell. Still, when we spoke he was more concerned about my concussion (I’d fallen while playing with my daughter).
June 9, we spoke briefly, my brother Okey with him. “Ka chi fo,” he said. His last words to me. June 10, he was gone.
Because I loved my father so much, so fiercely, so tenderly, I always at the back of my mind feared this day. But he was in good health. I thought we had time. I thought it wasn’t yet time. I have come undone. I have screamed, shouted, rolled on the floor, pounded things. I have shut down parts of myself.
“The children and I adore him,” my mother wrote in a tribute when he was made professor emeritus. We are broken. We are bereft, holding on to one another, planning a burial in these COVID-scarred times. I am stuck in the US, waiting. The Nigerian airports are closed. Everything is confusing, uncertain, bewildering.
Sleep is the only respite. On waking, the enormity, the finality, strikes – I will never see my father again. Never again. I crash and go under. The urge to run and run, to hide from this. The shallow surface of my mind feels safest because to go deeper is to face unbearable pain. All the tomorrows without him, his wisdom, his grace.
We talked almost daily. I sent him my travel itineraries. He would text me just before I got on a stage: Ome ife ukwu! Nothing else mattered to me as much as the pride in his eyes.
I saw him last on March 5th in Abba. I had planned to be back in May. We planned to record his stories of my great grandmother.
Chidima with her late dad
Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn that your side muscles will ache painfully from days of crying. You learn how glib condolences can feel.
My father was Nigeria’s first professor of Statistics. He studied Mathematics at Ibadan and got his PhD in Statistics from Berkeley, returning to Nigeria shortly before the Biafran War. A titled Igbo man – Odelu Ora Abba – deeply committed to our hometown. A Roman Catholic with a humane and luminous faith. A gentle man and a gentleman.For those who knew him, these words recur: honest, calm, kind, strong, quiet, integrity.
I am writing about my father in the past tense, and I cannot believe that I am writing about my father in the past tense. My heart is broken. “
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