ALL THE RELEVANT NEWS: MONDAY

16 May ALL THE RELEVANT NEWS: MONDAY

🌎The Airline Operators of Nigeria have announced plans to disrupt scheduled flight operations over the scarcity of aviation fuel. The announcement was contained in a statement titled, ‘Public notice: Disruptions in flight operations’, on Monday.

🌎The Nigerian Ports Authority has warned that Tin Can Island port is collapsing, and called for more attention on rehabilitating it. Speaking over the weekend, the Managing Director of NPA, Mohammed Bello-Koko, said “Tin-Can Island Port is practically collapsing. We need to focus our budget towards the rehabilitation of those quay walls at the Tin-Can port.”

🌎The Nigerian Communications Commission has alerted Nigerians to the resurgence of Joker Trojan-Infected Android Apps on Google Play Store that authorises payments for fraudsters.

🌎Oil prices fell on Monday, paring early gains as investors took profit following a surge in the previous session even as the European Union prepares an import ban on Russian crude and with limited increase in OPEC output. Brent crude futures were down $1.42, or 1.3%, at $110.13 a barrel at 0653 GMT.

🌎President Buhari has directed the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) to subject the Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System (IPPIS) and the two other proposed payment solutions proposed by University workers to integrity test.

🌎FG has borrowed a total of N984.28 billion through FGN bonds between January and April 2022, according to the FGN bond auction result released by the Debt Management Office (DMO).

🌎President Buhari and AGF Abubakar Malami have filed a suit at the Supreme Court, seeking an interpretation of the controversial Section 84(12) in the Electoral Amendment Act 2022.

🌎2023 Politics: Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of Transportation, said in Kaduna, where he was to engage delegates that he would resign as minister today.
* The Minister of Women Affairs, Helen Tallen, has withdrawn from the Senatorial race to retain her ministerial position. Tallen who announced this today, had purchased the All Progressives Congress form to contest the Plateau South Senatorial election

🌎Security Stories: Troops of the Nigerian Army have bombed a convoy of Abubakar Sarki, a Commander of Boko Haram in Sambisa forest, killing scores of terrorists who were with him.
* Suspected arsonists razed the council headquarters of Idemili North Local Government Area, Anambra State, Nigeria’s South-east at about 2 a.m. on Monday.
* At least five persons including two police officers were killed, while others sustained injuries, when gunmen ambushed a police convoy at Idema- Otuabagi Road, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State on Saturday.
* A yet-to-be-identified policeman has been shot dead in Eke Oko, Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State. It was gathered that the victim, who was on a motorcycle was intercepted by the gunmen and shot dead instantly.

🌎Russia-Ukraine War: A Ukrainian unit fighting north of Kharkiv says it has reached the Russian border. Russian forces are retreating from the north following Ukraine’s counteroffensive but are intensifying attacks in the east.
* Sweden has announced it should “work toward” an application for NATO membership. Finland also said Sunday that it will seek to join the defense alliance.
* Fighting continues in the eastern Donbas region
* One of the biggest ever NATO military exercises in the Baltics is due to begin in Estonia and Latvia. They were planned before the invasion, but will test the ability of the Baltic states and allies to respond to a Russian incursion