Kaduna tremor: Senate warns against possible earthquake in Nigeria

Leke Baiyewu with Agency reports

The Senate has called on the National Emergency Management Agency and other relevant government agencies to take proactive measures on the repeated earth tremors in some parts of Kaduna State.

The measures, the Senate said, included educating Nigerians on what to expect and how to react when a tremor occurred.

Sexual comments: Nigerian doctor loses licence, fined in Canada

Bukola Adebayo with agency report

A Nigerian doctor based in Canada, Dr. Adekunle Williams-Owolabi, has been banned from medical practice for six months after making sexual comments to patients at his clinic in Labrador West.

Owolabi’s licence was suspended and he was ordered to pay the sum of $75,000 towards the costs of holding the hearing where he was found guilty of professional misconduct towards patients.

Abia PDP ready for LG polls, says Onuigbo

Ogbonnaya Ikokwu, Umuahia

Despite calls by opposition political parties in Abia State for the postponement of the December 17 local government elections in the state, the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has announced its preparedness to take part in the election.

Leaders of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, the Progressive People Alliance and others had called on the Abia State Independent Electoral Commissioner to shift the polls, saying that the December 17 date was a day they prepared for.

Jonathan’s ex-aide, Dudafa, wants firms to deny laundering $15.5m for Patience

Ramon Oladimeji

A Federal High Court in Lagos has adjourned till October 7, 2016 to rule on two applications seeking to change the guilty plea of four companies which on September 15 admitted laundering a sum of $15, 591,700.

Wife of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, is claiming ownership of the money, which the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had since frozen in four Skye Bank accounts opened in the names of the four companies.

Obasanjo backs sale of national assets

•Says govs ignored his advice to save

Samuel Awoyinfa and Ifeanyi Onuba

Former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo said he foresaw the current economic recession the country is currently going through in 2014 and he hinted of its consequences.

He also threw his weight behind the sales of some public assets but also warned that it must not be sold to cabals, adding that the number of shares an individual or corporate entity should buy in such public assets to be sold should be regulated.

Pastor tackles Lagos hospital for removing wife’s womb

Samson Folarin

A pastor with a Pentecostal ministry, Chinedu Rockson, has accused the management of Ilogbo Central Hospital in the Ajangbadi area of Lagos State of removing his wife’s womb and damaging her bladder during childbirth.

 Chinedu said the hospital also detained his wife over the payment of N50,000, adding that efforts to clear the bill had been frustrated by the hospital.

APC, PDP in war of words as Edo elects governor today

As about two million eligible voters in Edo State go to the polls today, the All Progressives Congress and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party have continued to trade blame on the alleged plot of some officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission to compromise the credibility of the exercise.

The PDP on Tuesday accused the APC government of Governor Adams Oshiomhole and the electoral umpire of allegedly inducing election supervisors to compromise the outcome of the poll in nine out of the 18 local government areas.