*BVP MEDIA STATION NEWS HEADLINES* Good Morning to our Cherished Readers. http://victoradedeji.blogspot.com/ Thursday 20 June 2019 **NIGERIA* Otedola completes sale of Forte Oil, deal lifts share price by 10%. APC silent as Edo Assembly crisis deepens. FAAN hails Uguwanyi on airport security. PMB directs immediate end to attacks on Taraba communities. NNPC to resume oil search in Chad basin – GMD. FG denies reports of Ebola case in Nigeria. Delta indigenes in Diaspora lobby Okowa for appointments Court nullifies Kaduna’s bill to regulate pastors. Community protests encroachment on land. Boko Haram: Buhari, Borno governor meet over security. Borno Gov Seeks Alternative Ways of Ending Insurgency. Senator Seeks Free Treatment of Sickle Cell Patients. Delta Indigenes in Diaspora Lobby Okowa for Appointments. Workers Need Thriving Environment to Realise Potential, Says Lagos Archbishop. Oil Search in Chad Basin: NNPC Awaits Security Clearance. Election Tribunal: PDP Cou
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BREAKING: YOU CANNOT LICENSE PFN PASTORS IN KADUNA: COURT RULES AGAINST EL-RUFAI Wednesday 19, 2019. https://victoradedeji.blogspot.com A Kaduna State High Court has ruled that the plan by the Kaduna State government to issue licences to the pastors of Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) using the Religious Regulatory Bill is a gross violation of their fundamental human rights, which guarantees freedom of association and freedom of religion. Thus, inconsistent with the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended). Therefore it is hereby declared illegal. The judge, Hon Justice D. Gwadah further added that the actions of the Kaduna State House of Assembly in proceeding to pass the bill into law despite the pending court proceedings and the subsisting court injunction restraining the action, "is an affront to this honourable court". This was declared today, June 19, 2019 in a ruling on the case instituted by the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (P
INSECURITY: IG SENDS EMISSARIES TO GANI ADAMS OVER OPC’S THREATS TO HERDSMEN Following the seven-day ultimatum handed down to Fulani herdsmen in the South-west by the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Adamu, has sent his Chief of Staff, Mr. Jude Nwankor, to the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Chief Gani Abiodun Ige Adams. Speaking during the visit in his house in Lagos, Adams tasked the IG on the need to be proactive in tackling the various security issues in the country. Adams restated his belief in boosting local security, saying the best measure is to get people at the grassroots involved in local security. He told the top police hierarchy that as the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, “there are pressures on me to act on the issues”. Adams admitted that the OPC “is ready to partner with the police in solving the security challenges in the country”, adding that “our group has a history of winning war against kidnapping, banditry and other
Breaking: APPOINTMENT Ondo State governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, has approved the appointment of Mr. Dele Ologun as Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Political Matters (Central). The Governor also approved the appointment of Mr. Andrew Ogunsakin as Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Political Matters (South) Other appointments approved by the Governor include Mr. Williams Ebimodehghan as Special Assistant, Niger Delta Matters and Mrs Elizabeth Akpan as Special Assistant to the Governor. Segun Ajiboye CPS to the Governor