A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Maitama, Abuja has ordered the remand of former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele in Kuje Correctional facility pending ruling on his bail application. Justice Hamza Muazu issued the order on Friday following Emefiele’s arraignment and his plea of not guilty to a six-count amended charge brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He is, in the charge, accused among others of abuse of office. Justice Muazu, who took arguments on Emefiele’s bail application, adjourned till November 22 for ruling on the bail application and November 28 for the commencement of trial. Details shortly…

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  A 35-year-old man, Saleh Abdullahi, has been found dead after hanging himself in a room in the Sharada area of Kano. The victim was said to have left a written note starting with: “I am sorry.” But the rest was not legible. City & Crime learnt that he was said to be staying in the boys’ quarters of his brother, Idris Hamisu l. Hamisu told our reporter that, “I came back from morning prayers, my wife wanted to prepare food for our children and she was looking for matches to set fire but there was none. She remembered that Salisu was usually using it for local perfume. When she sent our child to collect the matches, the boy saw him hanging and he ran back shouting that Yaya Saleh was hung by someone. I then rushed to the room and saw it was true.” Asked whether he had any issue with the deceased, he said, “We didn’t have any problem. All I know is that these recent days he had been worried, and as businessmen, we usually feel like that when the market is bad. ‘’We are business people and we trade in furniture, but Saleh sometimes engaged in buying and selling old materials.   “He showed signs of worry these days because he collected money from someone and bought materials worth N400,000 in Rijiyar Zaki from some people and they took him to the house where they kept the materials and told him to come back another day to take them. When he asked for their phone number, they said since he saw the house he could just come back anytime, and when he went back later he could not find the house. That was what caused the worry for him because the money was not his and the owner put pressure on him to pay back.”   There was no response from the police command on the incident.

  The Court of Appeal, sitting in Abuja, has nullified the election of Zamfara state governor, declaring the March 18, 2023 State governorship election inconclusive. A three-member panel of the Appellate Court unanimously annulled the victory of Dauda Lawal of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conclude the election in three local government areas of the State in order to determine the eventual winner of the election. The election is to be conducted at Maradun Local Government Area of the State and in other areas where elections were either cancelled or did not hold at all. The Court held that the use of IREV information to declare Lawal as governor in the absence of polling units results were unlawful, illegal and unconstitutional.

  National Security Adviser (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, says insecurity has reduced across the country since President Bola Ahmed Tinubu took over power. Ribadu said Tinubu does not make noise over the breakthroughs recorded in the security sector since his assumption of office. Speaking during the ongoing 19th Annual Nigerian Editors Conference (ANEC) in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital, on Thursday, Ribadu said the current administration inherited tough period. He explained that militancy in the Niger Delta and insecurity in the South East has reduced since Tinubu’s administration came on board, adding that it will get better. “Let me start with the Niger Delta, at the time we took over, the production of crude oil was 1.1 mbd. Today, crude oil production is over 1.7 mbd. “We have witnessed three weeks without any incident of security challenge in the Niger Delta. This is the first time since 1993, but we don’t talk. “In the South East, when we took over last year we had 46 police stations attacked, today we don’t have one single one. “In the last two months, not a single person had been killed through violent attack in the south east, we don’t talk. The leadership we have in our country do understand things a bit better. Work more, talk less,” he stated. The NSA said though security has improved in the country, all hands must be on deck to surmount other security challenges. He said the federal government would continue to do every thing possible to improve on the welfare of its citizens and remain transparent in government business.

  Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera has imposed a travel ban on himself and his government to cut public spending and help the country’s ailing economy. The move was announced after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a $175-million loan for the southern African nation. “I am imposing a freeze on all publicly funded international trips for public officers at all levels… until the end of the financial year in March,” Chakwera said in a televised address late on Wednesday. It means the former evangelical preacher will skip a scheduled attendance at the COP28 climate summit later this month in the UAE. Chakwera also mandated that all cabinet members currently abroad on publicly funded trips promptly return home and ordered a 50-percent reduction in fuel allowances for senior government officials. Earlier this week, the landlocked country announced a 44-percent devaluation of its currency as it worked to secure the IMF loan. For decades, Malawi has struggled to sustain growth despite large inflows of official development assistance, according to the IMF. “The past three years have been particularly difficult with stagnating growth and widening macroeconomic imbalances due to unsustainable debt and the effects of multiple shocks,” the financial institution said, citing a recent outbreak of cholera and a cyclone that killed more than 1,000 people this year.

  Many people were feared killed in a communal clash ignited by bandits’ attacks in Tangaza local government area of Sokoto state. Our reporter gathered that four communities were attacked between Sunday and Wednesday by the marauders who killed seven persons, including a nursing mother and her daughter, who were burnt to death in a commercial vehicle. They also injured injured several others and abducted many, including women and children. The communities attacked include Gidan Kakale where five persons were said to be abducted; Ruwa Wuri’s road where they shot a driver of a commercial vehicle who was identified as Nasir Alhaji Sule and burnt down the vehicle with some of its passengers. They also attacked Alela Sutti village where they were said to have abducted women and their children before invading Alkasu village where they killed four persons, injured three and abducted 17 others. A resident of Tangaza who confirmed the incidents said immediately after the burial of the burnt nursing mother and her daughter, some youth and vigilantes attacked neighbouring Fulani communities and set houses ablaze. According to our source, several people were killed and injured during the attack. On why bandits attack was rampant in the area, he said it was due to the proximity to Tsauna and Kuyan bana forests which stretch to Niger Republic. The source said many of the bandits are foreigners. When contacted, the spokesman of the Sokoto Police Command, ASP Ahmad Rufa’i promised to get back to our reporter but he had not done so as of the time of filing this report.

  The family of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has again, alleged that the Department of State Services, DSS, is still shielding him from the family and his lawyers.   This is coming a week after the family raised similar allegation. Kanu’s younger brother, Prince Emmanuel Kanu, who raised the alarm Thursday, said he went to the DSS headquarters Abuja to visit the IPOB Leader but was stopped by the secret police from having access to him. Prince Emmanuel who spoke with Vanguard said the family was no longer comfortable with the development. He said that the attitude of the DSS was suspicious, while raising fresh concern over the state of his deteriorating health. The family wondered why the DSS would brazenly be violating court order which authorized the family and Kanu’s lawyers to visit him twice a week. Kanu’s family said the Nigerian Government should be held responsible if anything happens to their son “who is illegally detained against court orders”. The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja had earlier in a judgement, quashed all 15 counts of treason preferred against Kanu by the Federal Government. It also ordered his immediate release, declaring that his arrest and extraordinary rendition from Kenya did not follow any known protocol. The Court further ordered that Kanu should be returned to either Kenya or Britain where he was residing before traveling to the East African country. Similarly, the United Nations Opinion on Human Rights had earlier said that Kanu should be released unconditionally, and those behind his abduction and rendition to Nigeria published. Despite the court orders and UN opinion, the Federal Government has refused to free the pro-Biafra movement leader as he has remained in a solitary confinement at the DSS headquarters since June 2021