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January 5, 2021 British Prime Minister Announces Total Lockdown In England

British Prime Minister Announces Total Lockdown In England

Nearly 56 million people in England will return to a full coronavirus lockdown, possibly until mid-February, to try to cut spiraling infection rates.

According to Prime Minister BORIS JOHNSON, the measures, which include the closure of primary and secondary schools, will come into effect Wednesday, after Scotland announced similar measures would come into force from midnight on Tuesday.

Some 44 million people or three-quarters of the population of England are already living under the toughest restrictions, as Britain grapples with one of the worst mortality rates from coronavirus in the world.

But they have failed to halt an upward trend in positive cases, which have been blamed on a more infectious new variant.

 

 

January 5, 2021 Police Investigate Ogun Commissioner, Insist Victim’s Family Can’t Withdraw Sexual Harassment Case

Police Investigate Ogun Commissioner, Insist Victim’s Family Can’t Withdraw Sexual Harassment Case

The Police Command in Ogun State has said it would proceed with the investigation into the allegations of sexual harassment against the Commissioner for Environment, ABIODUN ABUDU-BALOGUN.

The Police Public Relations Officer of the Command, DSP ABIMBOLA OYEYEMI, disclosed that the Commissioner of Police, EDWARD AJOGUN, had ordered that the case be transferred to the Criminal Investigation Department at the Police headquarters in Eleweran, Abeokuta, the state capital.

The PPRO said the command will go ahead with the case despite the fact that the victim’s family had officially withdrawn the case against the Commissioner.

OYEYEMI said the father of the victim has no locus standi to tell the police that he is no longer pressing charges against the Commissioner because he is not the person that was directly involved in the case.

 

January 5, 2021 Federal Government Again Increases Electricity Tariff By Over 50%

Federal Government Again Increases Electricity Tariff By Over 50%

The federal government has again approved an increase in electricity tariff payable by electricity consumers in Nigeria.

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, approved over 50 per cent hike in electricity tariff payable by customers of the 11 Distribution Companies, DisCos.

A Multi Year Tariff Order (MYTO) signed by the new Chairman of NERC, SANUSI GARBA, on December 30, 2020, showed that the new tariff increase took effect on January 1, 2021.

The new increment is coming barely two months after the implementation of the controversial hike proposed last year.

In the new order, NERC said it considered the 14.9% inflation rate rise in November 2020, foreign exchange of N379.4/$1 as of December 29, 2020, available generation capacity, US inflation rate of 1.22% and the Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) of the power firms, to raise the tariff.

The order is effective till June 2021 while a Cost Reflective Tariff (CRT) expected to raise the new cost higher will be activated from June to December 2021.

January 5, 2021 Obaseki To Open Defence On Alleged Certificate Forgery Today January 5

Obaseki To Open Defence On Alleged Certificate Forgery Today January 5

Governor GODWIN OBASEKI of Edo will today January 5 open his defence at the Federal High Court, Abuja, in the ongoing alleged certificate forgery suit filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) against him.

The trial judge, Justice AHMED MOHAMMED, adjourned the matter on Monday for OBASEKI to open his defence on January 5, after the APC closed its case after calling six witnesses.

The APC and one of its chieftains, Mr WILLIAMS EDOBOR, dragged OBASEKI to court for allegedly forging his University of Ibadan degree certificate.

Other defendants in the suit are the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and INEC.

The fifth and sixth witnesses, Mr Gabriel Iduseri and Mr Maikano Asekomhe, in their testimonies, claimed that Obaseki forged his University of Ibadan certificate because of alleged discrepancies in the Certified True Copies (CTC) they said they obtained from INEC.

Iduseri who claimed to be the current Caretaker Zonal Youth leader of the APC, however, admitted that he had never seen Obaseki’s original University of Ibadan degree certificate.

He also stated that his allegations were based on photocopies obtained from INEC.

Similarly, Asekomhe, who claimed to be an Associate Professor of Banking and Finance at the Benson Idahosa University, Benin, also said he had never seen Obaseki's original certificate.

He said he could, therefore, not comment on the original certificate.

At the end of cross examination of the sixth witness, lead counsel to the APC, Mr Akin Olujimi (SAN), informed the court that his clients were through with their case and would want to close it.

Justice Mohammed subsequently ordered that the case of the plaintiffs be closed and ordered the first defendant, Obaseki, to open his case on the next adjourned date.

Meanwhile, Justice Mohammed, in a judgment delivered on Monday, struck out the case of the National Rescue Movement against the nomination of Mr Osagie Ize-Iyamu and AbdulGaniyu Daudu as governor and deputy governorship candidates respectively of the APC in the September 19, 2020 governorship election in Edo.

The judge struck out the case on the grounds that the case had become an academic exercise.

He said this was because the election had been conducted, winners emerged and Ize-Iyamu and Daudu were not challenging the outcome of the polls at the ongoing election petition tribunal in Edo.

Source: News Agency Of Nigeria

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