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  A vintage fender guitar owned by legendary Nigerian musician, King Sunny Ade, was on Sunday auctioned at N52.1 million in Lagos. The guitar which was auctiond by Dr. Jogun Onabanjo, Certified Auctioneer and Chief Executive of Onabanjo and Onabanjo & Co, is known to have been designed by Nigerian artist Victor Ehikamenor. The glittering artistic piece was revealed at the King Sunny Ade‘s  70th birthday concert tagged Sunny on Sunday, which had an audience comprising of Nigeria’s richest and top celebrities. The starting bid of nine million Naira was followed by a very competitive bid by the well-heeled audience consisting of influential businessmen such as Alhaji Aliko Dangote and Mr. Femi Otedola, and more closing at N52.1 million. While the bid was in progress, the asking price for the guitar doubled to N17m under two minutes before exceeding the N50m benchmark in 15 minutes. The winner of the auction is yet to be revealed. The concert held at the Te...

Two Nigerian students have been found dead in a river in Tasik Taman Negara Loagan Bunut, Miri Malaysia. The students, Amate Mohamed Amate, 26 and Emine-Imoh Daniel, 23 had been reported missing when a boat they were travelling in capsized on Sunday. FreeMalaysia.com quoted Sarawak Fire and Rescue Department director Nor Hisham Mohammad, saying the bodies of Amate and Emine-Imoh were found at 12.45pm and 5.15pm some meters away from the scene of accident. The corpse were sent to the Miri Hospital for a post-mortem. The two victims were among six students from Curtin University, Miri, Malaysia, conducting observation and research on wildlife in the lake area when the boat capsized. Four other students, one each from Oman, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Malaysia and the skipper of the boat were reported to be safe. A passing boatman who witnessed the incident reported the matter to park manager Anthony Chong, who sent a rescue team of five men to the location. The search and rescue oper...

The Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh The Gambian Bar Association has raised the alarm that President Yahya Jammeh was plotting to use Nigerian lawyers to perpetuate himself in office after losing the presidential election last week. The association stated that Jammeh,  who rejected his loss of the presidential election  after initially accepting the outcome, was planning to bring to Gambia judicial officers from Nigeria to thwart the will of the Gambian electorates.  The GBA in a statement published by  Sahara reporters  on Monday, also said it had no confidence in the Gambian Chief Justice Emmanuel Fagbenle, a Nigerian, noting that he would take steps to extend the illegal regime of Jammeh. The lawyers alleged that Fagbenle was at the forefront of plan to undermine the will of the Gambian people, stating that he was quite close to Jammeh who had ruled The Gambia for 22 years. “There is a total breakdown of the rule of law and the Chief Justice has be...

A telecoms-base-station - 360x350 Residents of three local government council areas of Adamawa State have been cut off from telecommunications services. The disconnection which affected communities in the three council areas of Ganye, Jada and Toungo, had forced many residents to travel as far as Mayo-Belwa and Yola the state capital for telephony service. The problem, according to one of the residents, Hamidu Lawal, who came to Yola from Jada for telephone service, has lingered for about a week. He said the situation was caused by the theft of two telecommunication masts belonging to Globacom by some youths in Kojoli, Jada local government council areas of the state. He said the youths had accused Globacom of defaulting in the payment of its ground rents where it erected one of its masts and a sub-station in Kojoli and Balauru respectively. One of the youths who spoke to Northern City News on condition of anonymity, stated that the youths in the area, allegedly acted on the ord...

MMM Founder, Sergey Mavrodi has said the scheme has done a lot to improve the welfare of Nigerians and reduce poverty despite the fear expressed by the federal government that it is a ponzi scheme. In an open letter, MMM founder urged the government to look at the benefits of the scheme to over three million Nigerians in one year of its existence in the country, especially, where the scheme is the only source of livelihood for some Nigerians. The letter was displayed on the page of MMM participants, NAN reported. The open letter read, ” So far MMM has come under a constant attack from you. In this regard, I would like to ask you a few simple questions. Since you are concerned with the interests of millions of your fellow citizens, I hope that  you would be so kind to answer them.” “What are you trying to get? Do you want the MMM System to collapse and millions of people to suffer? Who will support them then if MMM is their only means of livelihood? Will you?...

Oil Oil prices shot up over four per cent to their highest level since 2015 early on Monday after OPEC and other producers over the weekend in Vienna reached first output cut deal since 2001 . They jointly reduced output in order to rein in oversupply and prop up the market. Brent sweet crude futures, the international benchmark for oil prices, soared to 57.89 dollars per barrel in overnight trading between Sunday and Monday, its highest level since July 2015. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures also hit a July 2015 high of 54.51 dollars a barrel. With the deal finally signed after a year,the market’s focus will now switch to compliance with the agreement. ANZ bank said that Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s state-controlled oil company, had informed customers that their allocations would be reduced in January 2017, in line with the recent OPEC production cut agreement.” OPEC has said it will slash output by 1.2 million barrels per day from Jan. 1, with top e...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board says arrangements have been concluded to have an interaction with owners of Computer Based Test centres in the country ahead of the 2017 UTME. The board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made the disclosure in a statement made available to the  News Agency of Nigeria  on Monday in Lagos. According to the statement, the meeting which comes up on Tuesday at the University of Lagos is to fine tune all areas of challenges geared towards conducting a hitch-free examination in 2017. It said that the meeting would determine the number of centres to be used for the 2017 all CBT Unified Tertiary Matriculation Board exercise. “These are centres that must have a minimum of 250 and above terminals (computers). “We will not hesitate to disqualify any centre that falls short of the requirements,’’ the statement said. “We will equally not compromise on the selection of these centres as t...

Some survivors of the Reigners Bible Church International Inc, Uyo building collapse have given a first-hand account of how the building collapsed on Saturday. One of the survivors, Eno Etim, who spoke with our correspondent, on Sunday, said the building collapsed shortly after a lady was called to lead the praise worship. Etim, who hails from Mbo Local Government Area of the state, said there was no foreboding of the monumental disaster that was waiting to happen. The housewife, who spoke shortly before she was moved out of the St. Luke’s General Hospital, Annua, Uyo, to the University of UYO Teaching, Uyo, said the congregation was dancing when the church collapsed. She said that she could not recall how she landed in the hospital, adding that an iron bar hit her at the back, sending her reeling on the floor before she passed out. Explaining that she was not a member of the church, Etim said she had come to witness the ordination of the presiding pastor of the church, Aka...

Donald Trump President-elect Donald Trump questioned in an interview broadcast Sunday whether the United States should continue its “one China policy” unless Beijing makes concessions on trade and other issues. “I don’t want China dictating to me,” Trump said as he made a vehement defense of his recent phone conversation with the president of Taiwan. “I don’t know why we have to be bound by a one China policy unless we make a deal with China having to do with other things, including trade,” he added in the interview on Fox News Sunday. He was responding to a question on his taking that call this month from Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, breaking with decades of US diplomatic tradition that recognizes Beijing as the sole representative of China. Trump said he had had just a couple of hours notice that the call was coming, not weeks or longer as has been reported. Besides trade, Trump said China was not cooperating with America on ...

The Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh The United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, has urged the Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh, and his supporters to respect the outcome of Presidential election and shun violence. Ki-moon, in a statement on Sunday by the National Information Officer, UN Information Centre, Oluseyi Soremekun, stated that he was amazed by Jammeh’s rejection of the outcome of the December 1 poll in which the opposition candidate, Adama Barrow emerged winner. Jammeh, who had initially conceded defeat, made a U-turn on Friday, calling for a fresh election. He had stayed in power for 22 years. The Secretary-General urged the President to respect the outcome of the election and explore legal means to resolve grievances arising from the conduct of the election. “The Secretary-General is dismayed by the statement by President Yahya Jammeh rejecting the outcome of the December 1 Presidential election. “The Secretary-General calls on President Jammeh...

The mall AN early morning fire on Sunday razed a popular shopping mall, Phill-Hallmark Supermarket, in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State, destroying goods worth billions of naira.  It was gathered that the fire started at about 2am when only a few of the employees were present.  It was learnt that the inferno destroyed the four floors of the main building while an extension of the mall was partly burnt.  Goods worth billions of naira were said to have been affected by the fire.  The supermarket houses several sections, including a boutique, bakery, food and beverages as well as home appliances.  It was also said to have over 50 employees and was recently renovated.  When Southern City News got to the scene of the incident at about 9am, officials of the state fire service were seen battling to put out the fire.  Although it was learnt that firemen from the Nigerian Airforce and the University of Benin rushed to the scene, the inferno was...

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike The Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, has called on INEC to release the results of Rivers East Senatorial District and Rivers West Senatorial District without tampering with it. Wike declared that the candidates of the PDP had already won both elections based on results from polling units. The governor also called on INEC to immediately release the results of Andoni/Opobo-Nkoro Federal Constituency and Andoni State Constituency, which he claimed the PDP had won. Wike, who spoke in an interactive session with journalists on Sunday, said it had never happened in the history of elections that the Rivers East Senatorial District result declaration exceeded 24 hours. According to him, the result of Rivers East has been held down by the plots of INEC, the Army and the Police to manipulate the results of Emohua and Ikwerre Local Government Areas for the purpose  of concocting the senatorial results in favour of the APC . He said, “As...

  A farmer carries a bunch of cassava roots in Nigeria The National President, Nigeria Cassava Growers Association, Pastor Segun Adewumi, has said with the right government policy, the country can make an annual income of N20tn from cassava cultivation. According to him, cassava, which has numerous domestic and industrial uses, is the answer to the country’s economic challenges. To, however, gain from the potential of cassava as an income earner, Adewumi said the government must take the first step of dedicating five million hectares of the existing 84 million hectares of arable land in Nigeria to cassava farming. He said this in a statement signed on his behalf by Mr. Femi Ajayi of the association on Sunday. Adewumi said, “Cassava provides over 20 domestic food types for Nigerians and that includes  garri ,  fufu ,  lafun ,  starch ,  tapiocal , pupuru  etc. At the same time, it has five major industrial products namely, ethanol, ind...

Lagarde Christine IMF chief Christine Lagarde goes on trial in France on Monday over a massive state payout to a flamboyant tycoon when she was finance minister in a case that risks tarnishing her stellar career. Lagarde denies the charges of negligence, arguing she was acting “in the state’s interest” in making the payment to Bernard Tapie, the former owner of sportswear giant Adidas and the Olympique Marseille football club. If found guilty, Lagarde could receive a one-year prison sentence and a 15,000 euro ($15,900) fine. Whatever the outcome, the case risks damaging the image of 60-year-old Lagarde, a former corporate lawyer who progressed through the finance ministry to her current role as one of the world’s most powerful women. The case also threatens the credibility of the International Monetary Fund, as Lagarde is the third IMF chief to face trial. The IMF has given its full backing to Lagarde, who was named to a second term in February this year, ...

Minister of the Environment, Hajia Amina Mohammed President Muhammadu Buhari may soon carry out a minor cabinet shake-up with the imminent exit of the Minister of Environment, Amina Mohammed, from his administration, THE PUNCH has learnt. Our correspondent however learnt on Sunday that the exercise might not be carried out until early next year when Mohammed is expected to leave. The Secretary-General-elect of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, was said to have appointed the minister as his Deputy. A government source told our correspondent that Mohammed had already made the development known to Buhari and some of her colleagues. “For her, she would have loved to stay back and continue to serve this administration but this new appointment is a big one and is also good for her. Unfortunately for us, she has to leave in January,” the source said. Mohammed who represents Gombe State in the cabinet acted as the Senior Special Assistant to the President of Nigeria on th...

Lagarde Christine IMF chief Christine Lagarde goes on trial in France on Monday over a massive state payout to a flamboyant tycoon when she was finance minister in a case that risks tarnishing her stellar career. Lagarde denies the charges of negligence, arguing she was acting “in the state’s interest” in making the payment to Bernard Tapie, the former owner of sportswear giant Adidas and the Olympique Marseille football club. If found guilty, Lagarde could receive a one-year prison sentence and a 15,000 euro ($15,900) fine. Whatever the outcome, the case risks damaging the image of 60-year-old Lagarde, a former corporate lawyer who progressed through the finance ministry to her current role as one of the world’s most powerful women. The case also threatens the credibility of the International Monetary Fund, as Lagarde is the third IMF chief to face trial. The IMF has given its full backing to Lagarde, who was named to a second term in February this year, ...

Donald Trump Chinese media warned Donald Trump Monday that the one-China policy is “non-negotiable” and dropping it could lead to Beijing supporting US enemies, after the president-elect said he might do so unless Beijing made concessions. “The one-China policy cannot be traded,” an unsigned online commentary in the nationalistic Global Times said Monday, calling Trump “as ignorant of diplomacy as a child”. It warned that if the US openly supports Taiwan’s independence and ramps up arms sales to the democratically self-ruled island, China could aid “forces hostile to the US”. “Why couldn’t we publicly support them, or secretly sell arms to them?” it demanded. The Chinese-language commentary was in response to Trump’s remark in a Fox News interview Sunday that he did not see why the US must “be bound by a one China policy unless we make a deal with China having to do with other things, including tra...

Onu, Amaechi A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted leave to a group, Kingdom Human Rights Foundation, to commence its suit seeking an order for the arrest of the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, and his Science and Technology counterpart, Mr. Ogbonnaya Onu, over recent allegations levelled against them by two Justices of the Supreme Court. The plaintiff, in its substantive suit, asked the court to make an order of mandamus compelling the Department of State Services and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to “perform their statutory obligations” by immediately arresting and prosecuting the two ministers. The group also sought an order of mandamus compelling President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately sack both ministers “in public interest and public morality” based on allegations of attempts to influence court decisions as recently alleged by the two Justices of the Supreme Court. A copy of the enrolled order made by Justice Ahmed...

A South African cleric, Prophet Rufus Phala has made his church members drink disinfectant,  Dettol ,  in order to get healed.. Phala, a pastor with AK Spiritual Christian Church, Makgodu, Limpopo in the north eastern area of South Africa, instructed his followers to drink the disinfectant, while also acknowledging that it was dangerous to do so. “I know Dettol is harmful, but God instructed me to use it. I was the first one to drink it,” the pastor said in a video sighted by South Africa’s  Daily Sun. He also claimed he has been getting WhatsApp messages from people who say they have been healed by obeying his command of drinking the disinfectant. Dettol  is the trade name for a line of hygiene products manufactured by Reckitt Benckiser. While the liquid antiseptic may be harmless when mixed with bath water or when cleaning a wound it is known to be dangerous for internal use. According to  “Dettol poisoning an...

Supporters of the Presidential candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Akufo-Addo as he arrives for a meeting with supporters while official results are being awaited in Accra, on December 8, 2016. Ghana's opposition candidate Nana Akufo-Addo claimed victory in the presidential election, despite the official results not yet being released. Speaking to a rowdy crowd of New Patriotic Party (NPP) supporters gathered at his private residence, Akufo-Addo said he had defeated long-time rival and incumbent John Mahama. 

Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the appeal filled by Gov. Aminu Tambuwal seeking to stop a court action challenging the propriety of his nomination as the APC candidate for the 2015 Sokoto governorship election. Senator Umaru Dahiru and Aliyu Sanyinna had challenged the conduct of the primary election that produced Tambuwal as candidate of APC on the ground that it was fraught with fraud. The appellants were governorship aspirants on the APC platform in the 2015 general election. The appellants claimed that the primary election of APC conducted in Dec. 4, 2014 in Sokoto was fraudulent because the original list of the delegates for the primary election was swapped in favour of Tambuwal by some external forces. The appellants prayed the Federal High Court to declare that the primary election held in 2014 which produced Tambuwal as unlawful, unconstitutional, null and void and inconsistent with the Electoral Act, 2010 and the APC guidelin...

Zahra Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari’s family on Saturday disowned some photographs trending on social media and some conventional media said to be pre-wedding photographs of their daughter, Zahra, and Mohammed Indimi. In a statement by the Special Assistant on Media to the wife of the President, Adebisi Olumide-Ajayi, the family described the photographs as untrue and embarrassing to them. Olumide-Ajayi said the family would want the forthcoming marriage to remain a private affair. She also promised that official photographs of the wedding would be released at the appropriate time. The statement read, “It has come to the notice of the Buhari family that certain photographs are making the rounds both on social and conventional media claiming to be pre-wedding photographs of Zahra Buhari and Mohammed Indimi. “Not only are these photographs untrue, they are also a source of embarrassment to the couple.”

The Reigners Bible Church International Incorporation, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, after it collapsed… on Saturday. Photos: Etim Ekpimah The Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Udom Emmanuel, narrowly escaped death on Saturday as the building of Reigners’ Bible Church Int’l Inc, along Uyo Village Road, Uyo, the state capital, collapsed during service. The incident left about 200 worshippers dead. Sources said it took the efforts of the governor’s security officers to whisk him away to safety. He was said to have sustained a minor injury. SUNDAY PUNCH  learnt that the governor was in the church attending the ordination of the church’s Presiding Pastor, Bishop Elect Akan Weeks, when the building gave way few minutes before offering period. One of the aides, who rescued the governor, was said to have died at a nearby hospital where he was rushed to. A security officer, who did not want to be named, said many dignitaries who accompanied the governor to the c...

File: Scenes of the twin blasts which occurred in Maiduguri ...on Saturday. Photos: NAN There was panic in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State on Sunday morning as two suicide bombers, a male and female detonated their explosives. Speaking on the incident, the spokesman of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Sani Datti in a text message to our correspondent said: “A male and female suicide bomber have detonated explosives near Monday Market Maiduguri this morning (Sunday).” He said rescue workers were deployed to the scene to assist the injured. Datti said: “Only the two suicide bombers lost their lives while 17 persons were injured and evacuated to the Specialist Hospital Maiduguri.”

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has described the Rivers National and State Houses of Assembly election rerun as disgraceful, asking the United States President-elect, Donald Trump, to quickly intervene in the affairs of Nigeria. Fayose said this in a statement by his media aide, Lere Olayinka, on Sunday. The governor said President Muhammadu Buhari had compromised the Independent National Electoral Commission and taken Nigeria backward. The statement read in part, “He (Fayose) reiterated his call to the United States of America’s President-elect, Mr Donald Trump, to focus his attention more on Nigeria, with a view to saving the country from disintegrating, saying; ‘God forbid, if Nigeria disintegrates, the entire continent of Africa will disintegrate’’’. Fayose described the elections as a sad reminder of the level of destruction already done to the country’s electoral process by the All Progres...

Buhari Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of paying lips service to the sustenance of democracy in the country.  Fayose said, “Any president that looks the other way while the rights of his people to freely elect their leaders is being snatched at gunpoint by his own party men is not worthy of being associated with democracy.” Fayose said this in a press release by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, on Sunday while reacting to the conduct of the Saturday’s rerun National and State House of Assembly elections in Rivers State. He described the poll as a sad reminder of the level of destruction already done to the country’s electoral process by the All Progressives Congress’ government. According to him, with what happened in the elections, ‘free, fair and credible election’ is dead in the country and whatever victory recorded by any political party i...

Iheanacho, Oshoala Nigerian stars Kelechi Iheanacho (Most Promising player of the Year), Alex Iwobi (Youth Player of the Year), Oghenekaro Etebo (Most Promising player of the Year) and Asisat Oshoala (Women Player of the Year) on Sunday made the top five nominees in different categories for the 2016 Glo-CAF Awards, at an event in Cairo, Egypt, on Sunday. Super Falcons coach Florence Omagbemi, who led the women’s national team to an eighth AWCON triumph earlier in the month, and the national U-23 team were also nominated for the Coach of the Year and National Team of the Year respectively, while the Falcons made the shortlist for the Women National team of the Year. The release of the five nominees in seven new categories namely Coach of the Year, National Team of the Year, Women National Team of the Year, Youth Player of the Year, Most Promising Player of the Year, Club of the Year and Women Player of the Year, is a follow-up to the earlier list of the top five contenders for ...

•Bello The suspects Photos: File, Samson Folarin The three men alleged to have kidnapped and killed the human resources manager of the Dangote Industries Limited, Istifanus Bello, have said he was murdered for bringing incomplete ransom. The suspects – Abdullahi Saliu, Babuga Adamu and Abubakar Gide – told  PUNCH Metro  that Bello got them angry after bringing N5.6m instead of the N10m agreed for the release of four expatriates earlier kidnapped by their gang. They said Bello was killed after he had been held for three days because he  allegedly refused to call his employer to pay the balance of N4.4m. PUNCH Metro  had reported that Bello had gone to the Ijebu-Igbo area of Ogun State with N5.6m as ransom payment for the four expatriates. While the foreigners were released, he was abducted and later killed. His corpse was reportedly recovered from a river by the police. Investigations by the Abba Kyari-led Inspector-General of Police Intellig...

• Horsefall Photo: Chukwudi Akasike THE Department of State Services has arraigned three persons before a Magistrate’s Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for the killing of an employee of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Miss Sophia Horsefall. The suspects were said to have committed the offence on November 8, 2016, at Rumukparale in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state. They were arraigned on three counts bordering on murder. The defendants, who were identified as Sotonye Martin, Innocent Oluche and Wachukwu Ugochuckwu, were accused of stabbing their victim to death with a jackknife. The counsel for the DSS, Mr. C.S. Eze, said Martin (first defendant) lured and killed Horsefall at the residence of Oluche, the second defendant in the matter. Eze told the court that the victim’s corpse was buried in a shallow grave, adding that Martin and Oluche invited the third defendant (Ugochukwu), a spiritualist, to the shallow grave to perform some ri...

• Ugochukwu Photo: Family A former candidate of the  All Progressives Congress for the Abia-North constituency in the 2015 general election, Ugochukwu Nwosu, has been murdered in his Lagos residence. Ugochukwu was reportedly stabbed to death by a suspected robber at his residence on Shakiru Oleko Street, Agric, Ikorodu. PUNCH Metro  learnt that the victim, despite his injuries, overpowered and apprehended the suspect. He, however, gave up the ghost shortly after he was rushed to a private hospital in the area. Our correspondent gathered that the 46-year-old politician was a first class graduate of Chemical Engineering of the University of Port-Harcourt, with a Masters degree in Chemical Analysis from Harvard University. He was also said to be the Chief Executive Officer of Idife Nwosu Investment Limited and Business Info Base Business Directory. His driver, one Obinna, said he and his boss were awoken by the sound of falling crates around 3am on Thursday, Decembe...

The suspects The Lagos State Police Command says it has discovered a fake embassy operating in Lagos where many innocent members of the public had allegedly been defrauded. It was gathered that policemen attached to the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) had swooped on the ‘embassy’ and arrested two Chinese and two Nigerians. PUNCH Metro  learnt that the fake embassy was located at Golden Point and Suite on Duduyemi Street in Ejigbo, Lagos. The RRS said the Chinese – Liu Honyang, 47; and Sun Xinai, 49 – and their Nigerian collaborators – Oriyomi Olawale, 47 and Desmond Chinedu, 25 –  had been swindling Nigerians who had planned  to travel out of the country. It was learnt that the suspects issued mainly Trinidad and Tobago’s visas. The RRS said the Trinidad and Tobago embassy in the country had confirmed the visas to be fakes, while disowning the two Chinese. A RRS source told our correspondent that the Lagos State Commissioner of...

Survivors: Eno Etim (left) and Emem Akpanitiat at the St. Luke’s General Hospital, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State...on Sunday. Photos: Etim Ekpimah The Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel, has ordered the immediate arrest of the contractors and engineers that constructed the  Reigners Bible Church International Inc,  Uyo, which collapsed on Saturday, killing scores of people. Specifically, one of the personal assistants to the governor on media, Mr. Aniekeme Finbarr, who spoke with  CNN’s  correspondent Becky Anderson, said the governor gave the order on Sunday. “They should be made to answer certain questions so that the state would be able to get to the root cause of the matter,” the governor was quoted as saying. The governor’s call came on the heels of a similar call by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, for a probe of the disaster. Saraki, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, on Sunday, commiserated with the peo...