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For the second day running, members of the National Judicial Council (NJC), have continued their meeting to take a position on the arrest of some judges by the Department of State Security Services (DSS). All the members are said to have reconvened this morning at the three arms zone area of the Supreme Court Complex in Abuja. The Chief Justice of Nigeria, who is also the chairman of the NJC had described the arrest of judges as saddening and regrettable. He however gave the assurance that the NJC, the apex body of the judiciary saddled with the responsibility of disciplining erring judicial officers, will respond to the issue appropriately. On Tuesday, an emergency meeting of the National Judicial Council (NJC) was scheduled, to discuss the arrest of some judges last week but ended without members reaching any resolution. The meeting, which held at the three Arm Zone of the Presidential Villa in Abuja, will continue on Wednesday. Journalists, who had gathered early e

President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s comments on a 2005 videotape about groping women would disqualify him from even a job at a convenience store. Speaking at a campaign rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Obama said the choice was clear in the Nov. 8 election even before the tape was leaked last week showing Trump speaking crudely about women. “Now you find a situation in which the guy says stuff that nobody would find tolerable if they were applying for a job at 7-Eleven,” Obama told the crowd, referring to the convenience store chain.

Nigeria’s Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, has said that it is not true that the Federal Government has abandoned the people of the Niger Delta region. The Minister made the clarification on Saturday in an interview at the end of the 2016 Convocation Ceremony of the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), Effurun, in Delta state. He explained that the dialogue between the Federal Government and the people of the region to find lasting solutions to the lingering violence and pipeline vandalism in the region was ongoing. He said that the President was very supportive of the project of ensuring that government reached an agreement with the people through dialogue by ensuring that the old model which failed was restructured. Meanwhile, the Minister has ordered the award of scholarships and immediate employment to the best graduating students of the Petroleum Training Institute, which according to him is to help them further their education.

Department of State Service, DSS, yesterday, said it recovered over N360 million from the residences of three judges following raids, on Friday night,‎ of the residences of seven judges of the Supreme, Federal and High Courts across the country. A breakdown of the monies allegedly recovered from the residences of the three judges is N93,558,000; $530,087; £25,970 and €5,680. The three judges were identified as Justices Adeniyi F.A. Ademola, Nwali Sylvester Ngwuta and John Inyang Okoro. The DSS claimed Governor Nyeson Wike of Rivers State frustrated the raid of the house of one of the seven judges in which it alleged about two million dollars was being kept, a charge Wike rejected.