SENATE ADJOURNS EMERGENCY PLENARY ON STATE POLICE OVER REP’S DEATH.

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 SENATE ADJOURNS EMERGENCY PLENARY ON STATE POLICE OVER REP’S DEATH. The Senate today suspended consideration of the highly anticipated State Police Bill and all other legislative business at its emergency plenary session to honour the memory of Hon. Yaya Tongo, a member of the House of Representatives, whose death cast a sombre mood over the National Assembly. The upper chamber had reconvened from recess amid expectations that lawmakers would accelerate action on the proposed constitutional amendment seeking to establish state police across the federation, a measure widely seen as a major step in the ongoing effort to reform Nigeria’s security architecture. However, proceedings were cut short after Senate President Godswill Akpabio announced the death of Tongo, who represented the Kwami/Funakaye Federal Constituency of Gombe State in the House of Representatives. Hon. Tongo passed away at Nizamiye Hospital in Abuja on June 12, 2026, following a brief illness. His death triggered a...

2 REMANDED OVER RAPE OF 17YRR OLD.

                                                                                                 AN IBADAN CHIEF MAGISTRATE COURT SITTING AT IYAGANKU TODAY REMANDED YEKINI KAZEEM 18YRS AND IFEANYI EZEKIEL 18YRS FOR ALLEGEDLY RAPING 17YRS OLD GIRL.THEY WERE ARRAIGNED ON A TWO COUNT CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY AND RAPE .THE GIRL WAS ON AN ERRAND FOR HER GRAND MOTHER WHEN THE ACCUSED POUNCED ON HER.THE OFFENCE WAS COMMITTED ON OCT 14 AT ABOUT 8PM AT IJOKODO AGBSJE AREA OF IBADAN.THE OFFENCE CONTAVENED SEC 357 AND 516 AND IS PUNISHABLE UNDER SEC 358 OF THE CRIMINAL CODE.THE PLEAS OF THE ACCUSED WERE NOT TAKEN.THE CHIEF MAGISTRATE RISIKAT EBELOKU MUSTAPHA ORDERED THE ACCUSED TO BE REMANDED AT AGODI PRISON PENDING THE OUT COME OF LEGAL ADVICE FROM THE DIRECTORATE OF PUBLIC PROSECUTION.THE CASE WAS ADJOURNED TILL NOVEMBER 26 FOR MENTION.

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