By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Punch
The Nigerian Senate has pledged to pass a law allowing states to establish their own police forces before the end of the year. The deadline follows approval of the proposal by 24 states, Punch reports.
Nigeria’s Ondo State Assembly has passed a constitutional amendment bill to establish state police services. The bill is to be sent to the National Assembly, with its proponents arguing that community policing would improve intelligence and responses to crime, the Nigerian News Agency reports.
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A 7.5 MVA electricity substation has been launched in Rigasa, Kaduna State, Nigeria, to improve supply to a community facing around 15 years of shortages. The project also includes two-kilometre and 1.5-kilometre distribution lines, according to Punch, with support from the Kaduna government.
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Peter Obi, the Nigerian Democratic Congress presidential candidate, called on Bola Tinubu to leave office in 2027 and promised to fight corruption. He was speaking in Kaduna at the inauguration of his campaign council, reports Daily Post.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Source: Daily Post ·
South Africa is no longer concerned about its exclusion from the G20 summit hosted by the United States in Miami in December, its ambassador to Washington, Roelf Meyer, said. He said Pretoria was already in talks with the United Kingdom, which will host the summit the following year, and would attend the B20 in Washington in November, Daily Maverick reports.
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Nigerian Ebola patient arrives in Switzerland for treatmentThe Nigerian patient with Ebola and her husband have arrived in Switzerland, where she is being treated at Geneva University Hospitals and he has been placed in isolation in Zurich. Nigerian Health Minister Ali Pate says contact tracing and control measures are continuing in Nigeria, according to Punch.
Fugitive arrested in Almadies in two cases involving 1.6 billion CFA francsDakar’s Research Brigade has arrested in Almadies a man wanted for eight months and subject to an international arrest warrant. He is being prosecuted in a land case involving more than 1.372 billion CFA francs and is implicated in alleged fraud of 300 million CFA francs linked to Wave and Orange Money, according to Dakaractu.The week in Africa
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