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Kayode Oyero
Personal Assistant to the President on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, says his principal, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will, on Friday afternoon, receive the released schoolboys of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State.
“President @MBuhari will receive the rescued students of the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara later this afternoon in Katsina,” Ahmad tweeted on Friday.
Earlier, Governor Aminu Masari had received the 344 abducted schoolboys at the Katsina State Government House after they were transported from Zamfara State where they were taken by their captors.
Gunmen had invaded the school premises last Friday and abducted over 300 students after a gun duel with the police.
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Chidiebube Okeoma, Owerri
Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, has sacked the Vice-Chancellor of Imo State University, Owerri, Prof Adaobi Obasi.
Uzodinma’s Chief Press Secretary, Oguwike Nwachuku, in a statement, said the decision to sack Obasi was reached at an Executive Council Meeting chaired by the governor.
Nwachuku disclosed that the VC who is an aunt to a former governor of the state, Rochas Okorocha, would stop functioning in that capacity from December 30, 2020.
The statement read in part, “The government has also okayed December 30, 2020, for the Vice-Chancellor of Imo State University, Prof. Victoria Adaobi Obasi, to stop functioning in that capacity.
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Oladimeji Ramon
A man with an amputated left leg on Friday appeared as a petitioner before the Lagos State Panel of Judicial Inquiry probing the alleged shooting of #EndSARS protesters by soldiers at the Lekki tollgate on the night of October 20.
The amputee’s lawyer, O.E. Bamgbola, gave his client’s name as Lucky Philemon.
Bamgbola told the panel that his client was before the retired Justice Doris Okuwobi-led panel in relation to the Lekki shootings.
He said, “The petition relates to a peaceful protester who suffered gunshot injuries as a result of the shootings on the 20th of October in the Lekki axis, in consequence of which he became an amputee; his left leg was amputated.
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James Abraham, Jos
The Northern Governors Forum has described as a welcome development, the release of the abducted students of Government Science School Kankara, Katsina State.
Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, in a statement in Jos on Friday, commended the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.); Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari; security agencies, community leaders, and all stakeholders who contributed in making sure the schoolboys were released unhurt.
He said the release of the students will comfort and assuage the parents who have been in agony since their children were kidnapped.