Mid-day News Update: 'Stay away from tribunals' - Ex minister warns President Buhari

 Mid-day News Update Headlines:
* 'Stay away from tribunals' - Ex minister warns President Buhari
* The conversion of waste to wealth begins in Kano 
* DPR promised to ensure the sales of petrol at pump price of N87
 On the foreign Scene
* Cairo police Station bomb blast - IS laid claim

'Stay away from tribunals' - Ex minister warns President Buhari

President Buhari has been issued a warning by the immediate past minister of interior, Abba Moro and former Lagos state police boss, Abubakar Tsav, not to be involved in the ongoing cases presented before the election tribunal court in respect to the 2015 gubernatorial election. They are of the opinion if the president is to hamper any case, it will have an averse effect on his personality.

According to Daily Independent, the duo cautioned that any attempt by the All Progressives Congress to influence proceedings would heat up the polity and ridicule the country before the international community.
They pointed that President Buhari’s corruption drive would also be questioned if there happens to be any development as to stepping in against the legal proceedings.

The conversion of waste to wealth begins in Kano 

The conversion of waste to wealth begins in Kano by the State Refuse Management and Sanitation Board as stated by the Managing Director of the board, Retired Group Capt. Mohammed Kura, on Thursdays. He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano of the proposals sent by different investors from England and India to begin the conversion of scrap tiles into powder, fabrics and wares.

He also spoke using the waste from Naibawa fruit marketin producing organic fertilizers. And some have been sent to different labouratories with the nation including Ahmadu Bello University and the University of Ibadan where it was tested and confirmed to be good and useful. And also said more sanitaru inspectors will be employed by the state to monitor the activities sachet and bottle water sellers and biscuit sellers 

DPR promised to ensure the sales of petrol at pump price of N87

Shortly after the temporary shut down of some filling stations in Sapele, Delta State and Lagos recently clamping down of 23 depots that usually used middlemen to sabotage marketers, it is of no surprise when Kwara Controller, Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Mr Amos Jokodola,  promised to enforce sales of petrol at the official pump price of N87 per liter in the state.

This he disclosed to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin on Thursday that the independent marketers in the state would be made to sell at the pump price. He also made it clear that the DPR will also examine the quality of petroleum products sold at the filling stations.

            On the Foreign Scene
Cairo Police Station bomb blast - IS laid claim

The attack on a police station in Cairo on Thursday which led to atleast 25 people injured, IS has laid claim of being responsible for the powerful car bomb blast. Luckily none of the injuries were life-threatening according to  officials.

The incident was described like an 'earth quake' according to a resident in the working-class Shubra district of northern Cairo, the overnight explosion shook the entire district and severely damaged the front of the police office and shattering the windows of nearby buildings.

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