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The Periscope Reporter Ondo State House of Assembly has eventually impeached the embattled Deputy Speaker, Mr Iroju Ogundeji. Ondo state lawmakers took the action at the plenary of the House on Tuesday where they subsequently elected Hon. Samuel Aderoboye from Odigbo Constituency II as the new Deputy Speaker.

The Periscope Reporter Gombe state House of Assembly has impeached the Speaker of the House, Hon. Abubakar Sadiq Ibrahim and replaced him with Hon Abubakar Mohammed as the new Speaker. The Chief Whip of the House, Hon. Musa Buba who briefed the press Tuesday, on behalf of the House said the removal of the former Speaker was in exercise of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended. Buna explained that 16 out of the 24 members of the House passed a vote of no confidence on the former Speaker. Buba dismissed the insinuations that they were…

The spectre of insecurity countinues to loom large over Northern Nigeria. Yet, the region appears unable or unwilling to call out those whose responsibility it is to ensure safety of lives and properties or even create the environment that would just allow a large chunk of her people to suffer their acute poverty peacefully. The politicians, traditional rulers and Mullahs who led the charge of lamentations in time past have dissapeared from the scene* or maybe they are blind to the current reality. No more inciteful international radio interviews accusing the centre of incompetence or negligence or both. No more…

By Chinedu Asadu Kate Osamor, a member of the United Kingdom parliament, has asked the country to reconsider funding for some Nigerian security agencies she described as “corrupt”. Speaking at the parliament’s debate on the #EndSARS crisis, the MP said the government should instead focus on poverty alleviation programmes. She specifically kicked against the UK-funded training for former operatives of the disbanded special anti-robbery squad (SARS) which she said went on despite previous indictments of the squad. TheCable had reported that the UK trained SARS personnel for four years through the CSSF-funded Nigeria Policing Programme, which ended in March 2020.…

Our attention has been drawn to an ‘investigation’ by CNN, entitled ‘How a Bloody Night of Bullets Quashed a Young Protest Movement’ and aired on 18 Nov. 2020, in which the international news organization said it had ”uncovered that Nigerian security forces opened fire on unarmed protesters” at the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos, Nigeria, during the #EndSARS protest. 2. We write to put on record that the report did not just fall short of journalistic standards, it reinforces the disinformation that is going around on the issue, it is blatantly irresponsible and it is a poor piece of journalistic…

By John Owen Nwachukwu Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, AYCF, has in strong terms condemned the detention of Senator Ali Ndume. A Federal High Court had on Monday ordered that Ndume be remanded at Kuje Correctional Centre for failing to produce the former Chairman of the defunct Pension Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina Ndume, who represents Borno South at the National Assembly, stood as surety for Maina who is standing trial on alleged money laundering charges. However, Maina has repeatedly failed to appear in court for the continuation of his trial which led to the revocation of his bail by Justice Okon…

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has described the suit challenging the Arabic inscription on the Nigerian currency (naira) as ‘acrobatic religiousity.’ MURIC noted that it was not Nigerian Muslim leaders who brought the idea of Arabic in the Nigerian currency in post-independence Nigeria, adding that the man who initiated it was a Christian, an Urhobo officer by name General David Akpode Ejoor. The group tackled Nigerian Christians and former President Goodluck Jonathan, accusing him of becoming an instrument of division by removing Arabic from the naira during his administration. MURIC made the assertion in a statement signed by its Director…

The Periscope Reporter The International Professional Managers Association-UK, IPMA-UK has appointed Hon. Ibrahim Ahmad Sajoh, former commissioner information and strategy with Adamawa state government as its National President. The appointment was contained in a letter dated November 17, 2020 signed by T.T Akinsanya for the Head of Africa Regional Headquarters de former and serving Ministers in Ghana and Nigeria. The letter revealed that the approval of Sajoh’s recommendation to the UK for inclusion into the membership of IPMA-UK National Executive Council in Nigeria as the National President was in consideration of his manifestation of strategic leadership skill and contribution to…

The Periscope Reporter An online media, not the Periscope Sunday, reported that there was another attack by Boko Haram on the convoy of Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum Governor Zulum’s spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, in a statement issued immediately after the release of what was considered as obnoxious fallacy on Sunday, said the governor traveled to Baga, spent a day supervising the distribution of food and other relief materials to thousands of residents and returned to Maiduguri safely without any hitch whatsoever. “For the record, we write to quickly clarify that contrary to a “breaking news” by an…

The Periscope Reporter The lawmaker representing Adamawa Northern Senatorial Zone in the 9th Assembly, Ishaku Elisha Abbo, known as Cliff has felicitated Malam Nuhu Ribadu the founding anti corruption tsar at sixty. Abb has described the pioneer Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) Chairman, Ribadu as a “detribalised and wonderful” Nigerian. Abbo said this while wishing the ACN Presidential candidate of 2011 and APC’s Gubernatorial aspirant of 2019 a 60th birthday through his official Facebook handle on Saturday, 21st of November, 2020. According to the lawmaker in his message, “In 2010, I resigned my appointment as Special Adviser to the…