The newspaper review for Tuesday, March 6, leads with President Muhammadu Buhari telling his critics that he delayed his visit to trouble spots on Monday, March 6 because it was his way of monitoring developments instead of “rushing” to crises spots and “making noise” among other stories.
Vanguard reports that lawyers and media group have faulted the bill before the Senate, which prescribed death by hanging for the offence of hate speech. Already, the controversial bill has passed second reading.
Meanwhile, lawyers, among them Senior Advocates of Nigeria, who reacted to the development, said it portended danger for the country, with Professor Itse Sagay, SAN, saying the bill was unreasonable.
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Vanguard newspaper for Tuesday, March 6. photo credit: snapshot from NAIJ.com.
Prof. Itse Sagay, Chairman of Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-Corruption, PACAC, said the whole thing was extremist.
He said: ‘’I don’t understand this Senate at all because it is not only extremist but unreasonable and dangerous. How do you define hate speech? Let us start from there. If it is something that has no clear definition, then people will be sent to death on the mere caprice and inclination of a judge? The whole thing is irresponsible. I don’t think it is all the senators that are in support of the bill, it could be only one senator.”
The Punch reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has obtained a warrant to arrest the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Leo Ogor.
It was learnt that the EFCC is set to declare Ogor wanted for refusing to honour a series of invitations for over a year.
The Punch newspaper for Tuesday, February 27. photo credit: snapshot from NAIJ.com.
A source at the EFCC said: “We have been inviting the lawmaker to explain his role in the scam since last year but he has refused to come forward. Rather, he sent word to us saying he would not be able to come until December.
“We have therefore obtained a warrant for his arrest and we will declare him wanted soon.”
But, Ogor replied that he was ready to visit the EFCC as soon as the anti-graft agency invited him.
The Nation reports that the president told critics of his delayed visit to trouble spots yesterday that he has his way of monitoring developments instead of “rushing” to crises spots and “making noise”.
President Muhammadu Buhari spoke in Jalingo, the Taraba State capital, during his visit to assess the situation in the state and condole with victims of violence.
The Nation newspaper for Tuesday, March 6. photo credit: snapshot from NAIJ.com.
No fewer than 200 people are believed to have been killed in communal disputes, herders/farmers clashes and others in the state.
Many of the dead were buried in mass graves. Many are injured and hospitalised. Others have been forced out of their homes.
The local government areas worst- hit by the herdsmen/farmers crisis are: Lau, Ibi, Gassol, Bali, Wukari, Takum and Sardauna where scores were killed in renewed violence at the weekend.
The Guardian earlier ban placed on the promotion of Directors of Administration to their next levels has been lifted, the Head of Service (HOS) Mrs. Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita has said.
Before now, the promotion of Directors of Administration to the next level was denied them while their professional colleagues got career progression promotions up to the Permanent Secretary posts before retirement, a situation that unfortunately has brought stagnation into the Federal Civil Service.
The Guardian newspaper for Tuesday, March 6. photo credit: snapshot from NAIJ.com.
Oy-Ita however, revealed that subsequently, all applicants into the Administrative Officer position in the service must be computer literates if they must be considered for employment.
The Head of Service stated this in a message to the 2nd Edition of the Permanent Secretary Service Welfare Office Quarterly breakfast meeting with organized labour unions in Abuja.
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This Day reports that two weeks after the transmission of the amended Electoral Act to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent, the presidency has intensified efforts to defeat the plan by the National Assembly to override the anticipated presidential veto of the Act.
The lobby is intended to ensure that the required two-thirds majority votes of the 469 federal lawmakers, comprising 109 senators and 360 members of the House of Representatives, is not secured.
This Day newspaper for Tuesday, March 6. photo credit: snapshot from NAIJ.com.
This is just as a stalwart of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has dragged the federal legislature to court in Enugu challenging the Electoral Act passed by the National Assembly altering the election sequence.
The lawmakers on February 14 had voted in both legislative houses to change the sequencing of general elections for the presidential election to be conducted last, instead of first, as is the current practice.
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