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Senator representing Ogun East, Gbenga Daniel in a memo that went viral on Thursday, asked that his pension as a former governor of the state, be stopped. The Senator who was elected in February to represent Ogun East in the red chamber of the 10th national assembly, in the memo which he posted on twitter, said good conscience informed his decision to have his monthly payment of N676,376.95 suspended.
Gbenga Daniel, however stated that apart from the pension, he has not benefited from any welfare package such as medical, transportation or furniture allowances since he left office in 2011.
A federal high court in Abuja on Thursday, granted bail to the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari in the sum of N50 million Naira. Kyari was arrested on February 14th 2022, after the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency declared him wanted over alleged links with an international drug cartel. He was arraigned alongside four other members of the police Intelligence Response Team.
Since then, bail applications by Kyari and the four officers had been rejected. In the ruling on Thursday, James Omotosho, the presiding judge, said the charges against the defendants are bailable.
The court however added, that Kyari’s release from prison custody is dependent on what happens in another case in which he is being tried alongside four others for their alleged involvement in drug trafficking.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Thursday joined over 30 million users on the new Microblogging platform, Threads. Threads is a text-based social media platform founded by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, which also owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The app which was launched on Thursday has similar functions to rival Elon Musk’s Twitter.
The app’s unveiling comes a few days after Musk announced that a temporary limit had been imposed on the number of posts users can read daily on Twitter. President Tinubu in his first post on the app shared a video from his inauguration on May 29th with the caption “My fellow Tailors, Idan has landed”.
In other news, despite the announcement made by the Guinness World Record, for people attempting to break world records to properly confirm with their team before attempting to break any world record.
An upcoming artiste identified as Sugartee, proposed a 72-hour kissing marathon to be held in Ekiti State.
The government of Ekiti state, on Wednesday banned the planned kiss-a-thon reportedly billed to take place today 7th of July. In a letter addressed to the secretary of the state’s Hoteliers Association, the Ekiti State government described the event as unhealthy, immoral, and capable of denting the image of the state. In the meantime, the Guinness World Record announced on Thursday that it had deactivated the longest kissing world record because the competition had become too dangerous, and some of the rules conflicted with their current, updated policies.
– Arise News.
