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•Tambuwal, others head for court THE opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), on Tuesday, said it almost took the  court judgment  against the 37 federal  lawmakers that defected to its fold from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for April Fool’s joke, save for same coming a day before. In a statement issued in Lagos by its spokesperson, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Tuesday, the party called Justice Adeniyi Ademola’s quitting directive to the affected members of the  House of Representatives  as an exercise in judicial rascality. It added that the judge could not have asked the lawmakers to vacate their seats, because he was not competent to issue such a ruling, as the issue before him was not whether they could defect or not. The party said it would appeal the judgment, while asking the  Chief Justice  of Nigeria (CJN) to sanction the judge for alleged unprofessional conduct.

A snake, on Tuesday, disrupted the passing-out parade of the  National Youth  service Corps (NYSC) Batch “A” at the orientation camp at Tsafe, in Zamfara, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported. The snake, according to eyewitnesses, might have come from one of the dilapidated structures at the camp and could have been in search of food. The eyewitnesses said the snake tried to make its way to the platform where  special guests  on the occasion were seated during the ceremony. Some of the corps members, as well as some of the special guests, took to their heels to avoid the reptile. However, some of the corps members ran after the snake to kill it, using sticks and their boots. Earlier in her address to mark the end of the camp, the scheme’s Coordinator in the state, Mrs Ruth Bakka, urged the corps members to be of good behaviour.

FOUR terrorists suspected to be suicide bombers, apparently heading for an NNPC facility along Maiduguri-Damboa road were killed when their Improvised  Explosive Device  (IED)-laden vehicles exploded on Tuesday. Director,  Defence Information , Major General Chris Olukolade, who disclosed this yesterday while briefing on the update on  counter terrorism  campaign, said that the explosions took place at Mule on the outskirts of Maiduguri. According to him, three of the four explosive-laden vehicles were demobilized by shots fired at them by soldiers at the  check point  shortly before the explosions that rocked the area. The defence spokesman, however, announced that five soldiers were wounded while the civilian casualties are yet to be determined.  

A suspected international gunrunner who had been on the wanted list of the Police, has been arrested by the Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Lagos State Police Command. The suspect, identified as Amao and the intermediary between him and criminal buyers, Olatunji (surname withheld) are facing interrogation at SARS. Recovered from them were 10 AK47 rifles and 19 AK7 magazines, all loaded with 30 rounds of ammunition. Amao, who spoke to  Daily Sun  at the State  Police Headquarters , Ikeja, said he was importing the arms and ammunition from  Burkina Faso . “ I was introduced into the business by one Gbenga. I am a serious smuggler, but I do any other business that comes my way. So,when Gbenga promised to sponsor me to Burkina Faso, I grabbed the idea because no venture, no success. My wife is from Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, so, I was able to mix up and got connected to one Zakari Watara, who brings in arms and ammunition from Mali to Burkina Fa...

Sokoto State Governor, Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko,  has stripped his deputy, Mukhtari Shagari, of cabinet responsibility. Shagari, a lawyer,  had been overseeing the Ministry of  Science and Technology  until  he was relieved of the position. In a statement made available to Daily Sun in Sokoto, the government stated  that a newly sworn in commissioner, Alhaji Ibrahim Hussain, has been assigned to the portfolio. The development  is a tacit indication of a   cold war  between the governor and his deputy since they both made public their opposite   political platform  few months ago. Recall that while Governor Wamakko defected to the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), his deputy, Shagari, stayed back in the Peoples  Democratic Party  (PDP), the platform on which both of them were elected and re-elected in 2007 and 2012 respectively.

Forty -eight hours after a Federal  High Court  sitting in Abuja stopped defecting lawmakers from changing the leadership of the  House of Representatives , reactions continue to trail the decision. Justice Adeniyi Ademola stopped short of ordering the lawmakers to vacate their seats, saying they had no business remaining in the lower legislative chambers since they left the party that brought them in. Reacting to the judgment, the All Progressives Party (APC) in a  statement issued by the its  Interim National Publicity  Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said Justice Ademola did not order the 37 members of the House of Representatives who defected to the APC to vacate their seats because he is not competent to do so. The party stated that the presiding judge could not have issued such a ruling, as the issue of whether or not they can defect was not before him. The APC hinted that it would appeal the ruling because Justice Ademola’s perpetual injun...