Nigeria Today! Missing 2016 Budget, Tompolo, Others In News

SENATE CLEARS AIR ON ALLEGED MISSING 2016 BUDGET

The Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Honourable Abdulmumin Jibrin, has said that there was no truth to insinuations that the 2016 budget document is missing.

He said that the claims may have been inspired by the initial insufficiency of the copies of the budget available to all the lawmakers.

“As far as I am concerned, that story does not hold water. We were expecting copies to be printed and sent to the National Assembly but there was a bit of delay.

Nigeria Today! EFCC Arrests Olisa Metuh, Others In News

EFCC ARRESTS METUH

Officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC today arrested the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh.

The operatives, four in number, came in a white unmarked Toyota Hiace bus and whisked Metuh from his Abuja residence.

The EFCC is probing how Metuh received N1.4 billion from the $2.1 billion arms procurement funds allegedly misappropriated by Ex-NSA Colonel Sambo Dasuki (Rtd).

Nigeria Today! Nigeria Police Force, Bukola Saraki, Others In The News

IG ORDERS STRICT MONITORING OF FIREARMS USAGE BY OFFICERS

The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Solomon Arase, on Wednesday called on senior police officers to monitor strictly the use of firearms and ammunition by officers under them.

The Force Police Public Relations Officer (FPPRO), ACP Olabisi Kolawole, disclosed the I-G’s order in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.

Kolawole said the order was sequel to some alleged killings by drunken and trigger-happy policemen in different parts of the country.

He said that Arase expressed sadness over unlawful killings and restated the need for Assistant Inspectors-General, Commissioners and Area Commanders of various commands and units to monitor strictly the usage of firearms.