Attendees unanimously elected Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni as the acting chairperson of the part.
A resolution was reached that he would combine his job as Yobe governor with the task of running the ruling party until a national convention is held.
Mr Mala Buni was national secretary of the party until he was elected governor in the 2019 general elections.
Other interim leaders were also appointed.
About 300 workers of a rice-processing factory allegedly locked and forced to work throughout the coronavirus lockdown have been rescued by police, BBC reported.
The company, called Popular Farms, promised an additional $13 (about N5,000) a month to their $72 monthly salary and those who did not accept were threatened with a sack.
The workers were allegedly not allowed to leave the mill in Kano State since the first lockdown was imposed by the Nigerian government in March.
Police spokesman Abdullahi Haruna told the BBC that the plant had now been shut down and the owners were being investigated for “holding the men against their will”.
“So far, we have arrested four management staff and investigation has commenced,” Haruna said.
The manager of the rice mill, who identified himself as Abdulkareem, regretted the incident, saying he was not aware of the workers’ terrible condition.
Some of the men say were forced to work most of the time during their incarceration, with little food.
“We were allowed to rest for only a short time, no prayers were allowed, no family visits,” 28-year-old Hamza Ibrahim, one of those rescued, told the BBC’s Mansur Abubakar in Kano.
Local airlines in Nigeria have urged the Federal Government and the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 to reopen the airspace for airlines and airports that have satisfied safety protocol to begin operations.
The carriers, under the aegis of Airlines Operators of Nigeria (AON), said more days were bound to be wasted and revenues lost should the system wait for every stakeholder to be ready.
The appeal was made on the heels of the disclosure that the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), was concluding its findings and would submit recommendations to the PTF today.
AON Chairman, Capt. Nogie Meggison, at a webinar forum for aviation stakeholders, said a restart date would spur more stakeholders to intensify preparations and save newer investments recently made by the airlines.
On Monday Geoffrey Onyeama, Foreign Affairs Minister, had summoned Iva Denoo, the Ghanian Chargé d' Affaires in Nigeria to explain how yet to be identified person demolished a Nigerian diplomatic building in Ghana last Friday.
In a tweet on Tuesday, Garba Shehu, spokesperson for President Buhari, said Ghana's President had apologised for the incident and ordered an investigation into the incident.
It reads, "President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana Tuesday spoke with President Muhammadu Buhari, expressing his sincere apology for demolition of a building on the premises of Nigerian High Commission in Accra, Ghana.
"In a telephone call, the Ghanaian leader told President Buhari that he has directed full investigation into the incident.
"Earlier in the day, it further emerged that some suspects had been arrested and will be arraigned in court."
The federal government Friday announced plans to disengage both Batch A and B graduates enrolled in the N-Power scheme.
In a statement signed on Friday by the humanitarian ministry’s Deputy Director, Information, Rhoda Iliya, she said the exit of the volunteers would commence on June 30 and July 31 respectively for batches A and B.
The ministry also disclosed that the disengagement of both batches would follow a fresh enrollment for a new Batch C volunteers which will be effective from July 26.
The UN health agency disclosed this on its regional office for Africa in
Brazzaville, Congo, official twitter account @WHOAFRO.
“Today, Nigeria’s complete documentation for Wild Polio virus free status
was accepted by the Africa Regional Certification Commission for polio
eradication (ARCC).
“It is a historic day for Nigeria, Africa and the Global Polio
Programme,’’ WHO said”.
Meanwhile, Dr Faisal Shuaib, Executive Director and CEO of the National
Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), in a tweet at @drfaisalshuaib
described the documentation as historical.
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is set to commence admission exercise for 2020/2021 academic year for tertiary institutions with the announcement of cut off points for universities 160 and above, polytechnic 120 and above, colleges of education and innovative institutions 100 and above.
JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, who announced the development at the end of 2020 policy meeting, yesterday warned institutions against charging candidates more than N2,000 for screening exercise
He disclosed that 510,957 admission spaces were unused in 2019 admission year while 612, 557 were offered admission out of 1,157,977 candidates that sat for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
He asked tertiary institutions to proceed with the conduct of 2020/2021 admissions following the approved guidelines.
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The Beninese candidate Éloi Laourou is no longer in the running to take over the post of Brazilian national Roberto Azevêdo as Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Benin, which announced the withdrawal of Laourou’s candidacy to its partners at the International Organisation of La Francophonie within the WTO in a letter dated 12 June, has also decided “to support the candidacy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, in the person of Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.”
The news, expected to be formally made public early this week, was confirmed by a source within the Beninese government.
“We’ve reviewed the candidates and it’s clear that Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has the best credentials to win the nomination for Africa once and for all,” the source said.
In the letter from the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Benin to the United Nations Office and other International Organisations based in Geneva, dated 12 June and addressed to the diplomats of OIF member states, the Beninese authorities insisted on this point.
Their decision, they wrote, “is inspired by the high sense of seeking consensus around a candidate which will be endorsed by the African Union.”
However, with the withdrawal of Laourou’s bid, a consensus has yet to be found. Besides Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala, two other African candidates are still in the running: Kenya’s Amina Mohamed and Egypt’s Abdel Hamid Mamdouh.
An autopsy commissioned for George Floyd's family has found that he died of asphyxiation due to neck and back compression when a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes.
The second autopsy found the compression cut off blood to Mr Floyd's brain, and weight on his back made it hard to breathe.
The family's post-mortem results differ from those of the local county medical examiner's released last week, which reported nothing to support strangulation as cause of death, concluding that the "combined effects of being restrained, potential intoxicants in Floyd’s system and his underlying health issues, including heart disease," likely contributed to his demise.
Mr Floyd, a black man who was in handcuffs at the time, died after the white officer ignored bystander shouts to get off him and Mr Floyd's own cries that he could not breathe.
His death, captured on citizen video, has sparked protests in Minneapolis that have spread to cities around America.
