Author: The Nation

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested one of the wanted terror suspects, Suleiman Sidi, who escaped from the Medium Security Correctional Centre, Kuje, following an attack on the facility by insurgents last week in Abuja.

Spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Monday.

Babafemi said the fleeing terror suspect was arrested in the early hours of Monday at Area 1 motor park in the Federal Capital Territory while attempting to board a commercial vehicle to Maiduguri Borno State.

When he was searched, three wraps of cannabis sativa were found on him, Babafemi said.

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“During preliminary interview, the wanted terror suspect confirmed he was remanded at the Kuje Correctional Centre for terrorism and robbery charges, adding that he was indeed one of the inmates who escaped from the facility last Tuesday.

“While commending the officers and men of the FCT Command of the Agency for the arrest and their vigilance, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) has directed that the wanted suspect should be immediately handed over to the Nigerian Correctional Service, NCoS,” he said.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday said Mr Ahmad El-Marzuq remained its National Legal Adviser, contrary to reports that he had resigned.
Mr Felix Morka, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, said this in a statement while reacting to the purported reports which he described as false and misleading.

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“Barr. Ahmad Usman El-Marzuq is and remains the National Legal Adviser of APC. Barr. Daniel Bwala was not the National Legal Adviser of the party as erroneously reported,” he said.

He added that the report was either borne out of mischief or extreme negligence and should therefore be disregarded by the general public. (NAN)

The popular Bodija market in Ibadan, Oyo State capital on Monday morning went up in flames.

Property and goods worth millions were said to have been lost to the inferno.

Many shops were said to have been affected.

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One of the affected traders, who confirmed the development, said she lost more than N5m to the inferno.

The cause of the inferno could not be ascertained as of the time of filing this report.

Five bodies of persons fleeing the scene of the fire explosion that rocked the tank farm of Matrix Energy Limited at Ifiekporo in Warri South council area of Delta State have been recovered along the bank of Warri River.

The victims whose identities were yet to be ascertained were recovered by local divers on Sunday.

Reports say the deceased five were among those scampering for safety when the fire broke out in the gas section of the tank farm on Friday evening.

They were reportedly outside the tank farm premises.

A delegation of the Delta State Government on Saturday stated that no death was recorded but confirmed 12 persons were injured during the incident.

Matrix Group Head of Safety, Mr. Fred Olomuro, confirmed the latest development.

“Today (Sunday) afternoon, local divers from our host community recovered five lifeless bodies that drowned, probably while fleeing for safety during the fire incident on Friday. Where they died is some distance from the scene of the fire.

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“Most offices had closed for business on that fateful day. Their bodies were recovered along the bank of the river away from our premises where the incident occurred.

“We’re greatly pained by the loss of these victims. We are already in touch with the family of the victims. We commiserate with the families on this unfortunate incident,” Olomuro stated.

A community source, who spoke in confidence and confirmed “only four bodies” were recovered, said that efforts are still on to identify the victims.

He also disclosed that the local divers suspect that there may be other victims, which is why the search would continue on Monday.

The world’s richest man Elon Musk has taken a swipe at Twitter over their decision to file legal action against him following his decision to put its acquisition deal on hold.

In May, Musk revealed the “deal” with the micro-blogging and social networking company Twitter was on hold after Twitter agreed weeks ago on a ‘definitive deal’ to sell itself to Musk at approximately $44 billion.

When the deal was initially announced, the SpaceX CEO disclosed plans to make Twitter “better than ever” by “defeating the spam bots and authenticating all humans.”

However last Friday, Musk said he was terminating his $44 billion deal for Twitter, saying the social media company had failed to provide information about fake accounts on the platform.

He tweeted: “Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users”.

His attorneys on Friday filed a letter with the SEC accusing Twitter of being in material breach of the transaction agreement. They wrote that the company, after repeated requests for data on its accounts, “has failed or refused to provide this information”

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The fling claimed that “Twitter is in material breach of multiple provisions of the buyout deal, and that the company appears to have made false and misleading representations upon which Mr. Musk relied when entering into the Merger Agreement.”

Moments later, the micro-blogging social network platform, announced it would pursue legal action against Tesla Chief Executive Officer.

Twitter’s chairman board of directors, Bret Taylor, made the position known in response to Musk”s action.

He wrote that the social media platform is “committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plans to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement. We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery.”

Reacting, Musk took to his Twitter handle on Monday to share a collage of several hilarious memes trolling the micro-blogging app over their decision to pursue legal actions against him for temporarily suspending the acquisition deal.

The first had the inscription, “They said I couldn’t buy Twitter.”

Next “Then they wouldn’t disclose bot info.”

That which followed next reads: “Now they want to force me to buy Twitter in court.

The last inscription reads: “Now they have to disclose bot info in court.”