The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) on Thursday urged its members to review their operations to ensure minimal negative impacts on the environment. Mr Joe Onyebu, the acting Chairman, MAN Apapa Branch, made the appeal at the 10th edition of the association’s Environmental and Safety Seminar in Lagos.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that theme seminar was: “The Production of Substandard Food and Beverages: The Role of Environmental and Safety Controls’’. Onyebu said the seminar was initiated as a means of providing value adding advisory services to elicit voluntary compliance of member companies to the globally accepted environmental standards and the Nigeria environmental laws.

“The fact that this seminar is convened on an annual basis underscores the importance the association attaches to environmental and safety issues,’’ he said. The MAN chairman implored the government to tackle the deplorable roads within the Amuwo-Odofin Industrial Axis, Mile 2-Coconut Road, Mile 2-Kirikiri Road, Coconut to Liverpool and a host of others.

He also urged government to address issues of epileptic power supply and continued multiplicity of demands by regulatory agencies on member companies to ensure global competitiveness of the manufacturing sector. Onyebu commended the Lagos State glGovernment for agreeing to the request of harmonising regulatory functions of the various government agencies.

He advised the government to increase patronage of Nigerian manufactured products to ensure survival of the sector. “MAN has remained committed to constant dialogue with the government at all levels and look forward to improved electricity and other infrastructure to enhance competitiveness,’’ Onyebu said.

Also, the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) expressed concerns over the impact of food and beverages produced under wrong environmental conditions on the wellbeing of citizens. The NESREA Director, Lagos Liaison Office, Mr Ayuba Jacob, said poorly produced foods and drinks in unhygienic environments had been found to be one of the leading causes of diseases and sometimes death, particularly in children.

Jacob, represented by Ms Tolofari Ngere, Head, Pollution Control and Sanitation Unit, said that the agency was engaged in series of nationwide compliance monitoring inspection visits to facilities in the food and beverages sector. This, he said, was to ascertain their level of compliance with regulations governing the sector.

“A lot of products in the market today have been found to be either produced in an unkempt environment or standard protocols in their production was not adhered to. “This is of great concern to the government because of the negative impact on human health and the environment.

“However, the government, through NESREA, promulgated various regulations to ensure environmentally sustainable sanitation practices in the industry are adhered to,’’ Jacob said. He encouraged facilities in the food and beverages sector to channel their resources toward activities that would not compromise environmental integrity for the present and future generations.

The NESREA director said that more facilities were complying and expending efforts to ensure that the technologies and productions were greener and more environment friendly. On its part, the Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) called for a proper follow-up and adherence to guidelines on waste disposal practices from cradle to finish.

The LAWMA Director-General, Mr Oladimeji Oresanya, said that adherence to proper waste disposal practices would prevent environmental challenges experienced by wrong disposal system. Oresanya, represented by Mrs Adetola Mosaku, Head, Commercial Services, said that LAWMA had been revived and strengthened to ensure qualitative solid waste management services premised on integrity. H

e said that the new government in Lagos had expended efforts by consolidating on extensive enlightenment on recycling, as the most sustainable option in waste management. “Waste is not waste in itself, but a means to an end which is a significant source of revenue generation to the manufacturing sectors whilst making job opportunities available. “The government has embarked on empowerment initiatives and set up recycling plants to ensure ease of disposal of recyclable wastes,’’ the LAWMA director-general said.

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The Phones and Allied Dealers Association of Nigeria (PAPDAN) has urged the Federal Government to formulate policies that will encourage building of cell phones assembly and packaging plants in the country. Mr Godfrey Nwosu, President of PAPDAN made the plea in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Thursday.

He said that the assembly plants would create employment opportunities and generate income for the economy. Nwosu said that such policies if well implemented would benefit the country immensely and reduce crime and insecurity. According to him, Nigeria has provided one of the best rooms for new Mobile phones in Africa. He noted that no other country had been able to compete with what Nigeria had done with the introduction of the ‘alternative brands’.

Nwosu said that `alternative brands’ were those brands that were not the usual brands people were familiar with, saying that most of those brands having entered Nigerian markets, found a fertile ground to grow. The PAPDAN boss said that it was because Nigeria had a tech savvy population that could buy and a tech savvy people always wishful of the new techs in the country. “I don’t want to see Nigeria as a consuming economy. “The government can start somewhere from assembly or making sure that some of the components or packaging are done in Nigeria.

That is the way to grow an economy. “If all the mobile phones that come into the country come in without the packaging and all the companies producing the phones should outsource their packaging to Nigerian companies; you can image the number of jobs it will create. “Most of the time, people do not care about the packaging no matter how beautiful they are; it is only the substance that people are interested in.

“We cannot just sit down and let other countries finish the products and take advantage of where we are supposed to create employment,’’ Nwosu said. He noted that the foreign companies took advantage of the profits they were making from the country. Nwosu said that setting up an assembly plants should not be a big deal. According to him, some of the Mobile phones’ companies have chosen to build their plants in other African countries not providing them with the market.

“You can imagine that Nigerians are the ones consuming and other countries enjoying the dividends through the setting up of assembly plants, creating more employment and generating more income,’’ he said. Nwosu advised government to look inwards and sometime engage people in the sector. He said that the government sometime categorised the dealers in mobile phones industry as informal, whereas there were lots of formality in what they do.

The Information and Technology (IT) expert suggested that there should be more engagement. Nwosu said that government should talk to the players that understood the industry for advice on how the boom in IT sector could help the country. He, however, advised that government should reserve some areas for manufacturing companies and ensure that there is adequate power supply.

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China’s envoy in Geneva, Chen Xu, on Thursday said he hoped UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet would visit China, including Xinjiang. He said, “education training centres” were helping to stamp out extremism and give people new skills.

China has been condemned internationally for setting up complexes in the remote western region of Xinjiang that UN experts describe as mass detention centres holding over 1 million ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims. Bachelet, a former president of Chile, has repeatedly pushed China to grant the UN access to investigate reports of disappearances and arbitrary detentions, particularly of Muslims in Xinjiang.

“We hope to see the high commissioner pay a visit to China including a trip to Xinjiang to see by herself, seeing is believing. “The invitation to the high commissioner is always there, we hope to define a time which is convenient to both sides,” Chen Xu, China’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva, told a news conference. According to Chen, what happened in Xinjiang is vocational education training centres help young people, especially young people, to get skills, to be well-equipped for their reintegration into society.

“There are no so-called re-education camps. “Bachelet’s approach was one of dialogue and cooperation,” he said, contrasting this with that of her predecessor Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein. Spokeswoman Marta Hurtado said in an email response said that the high commissioner has been invited to visit China.

“We are continuing to discuss with the government for full access. “We can also confirm that she met with China’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva this week,” Hurtado said. Hurtado, asked whether China had offered access to Xinjiang, replied: “At this point, we are still discussing with the authorities.” Louise Arbour was the last UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to visit China, in September 2005.

China has previously said it would welcome UN officials if they avoided “interfering in domestic matters”. Activists have called for the UN Human Rights Council, which opens its next three-week session on June 24, to hold China to account for alleged violations in Xinjiang. The 47-member state forum has never adopted a resolution on China. Chinese vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng, addressing the UN Human Rights Council in March, defended the complexes in Xinjiang and said the “campuses” would be closed down gradually as extremist ideology was vanquished in the region.

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The Nigerian Army has depicted as false a distributed report making round, that 25 fighters were killed in Borno State on Saturday.

In an announcement discharged today, Sunday by the Acting Director Army Public Relations, Colonel Sagir Musa using his confirmed Twitter handle said there was no reality in the production.

"Report of fear-based oppressors assault and killing of 25 fighters and various regular people in Borno State on Saturday 25th May 2019 is Fake. "No fact in the distribution," he announced.

Review that there were distributed reports on some online media yesterday, that troops in Borno State were trapped and killed while escorting a gathering from a town in Borno State.

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The Alliance for Democracy, AD, has approached the Lagos State decision court to stop the introduction of the senator race, Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

Promotion's governorship hopeful in the simply finish up decision in the state, Owolabi Salis clarified that Sanwo-Olu's introduction ought to be ceased on the grounds that the senator choose was in a poor perspective.

In an announcement, Salis affirmed that Sanwo-Olu assigned his gathering, the All Progressives Congress, APC, as his appointee senator on his INEC structure as against Babafemi Hazmat.

Salis likewise blamed the senator choose for utilizing a phony card peruser amid the simply finished up decision.

The announcement peruses: "Shockingly, Babajide Sanwo-Olu designated APC, an association, as his delegate senator in his INEC structure as opposed to assigning Babafemi Hazmat, a person.

"Sanwo-Olu voter's card number is BBBBBBBBBB295797059 said to be enrolled in Lagos. This present voter's card is demonstrating invalid order on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) voters status confirmation framework which any Nigerian can cross check it.

"We are associating unlawful attack with INEC enrollment framework. Sanwo-Olu might not have enrolled to cast a ballot but rather this was pirated into the INEC framework.

"For IT specialists, you can pirate in information yet explicit distinguishing proof numbers are in every case truly incomprehensible; while the name is being carried in, the VIN recognizable proof number proved unable. That is our conceivable finding requiring the lawyer general and other security offices consideration now. We will ask the council to focus on this."

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has given over Azeez Fashola better know as Naira Marley to men of the Nigerian Prison Service for confinement.

He argued not blameworthy to 11 count charge favored as a detriment to him by the counter join office.

Until his arraignment at the Federal High Court in Ikoyi on Monday morning, he was in the confinement office of the EFCC.

Naira Marley's mom who was at the court to observe her child's arraignment is at present in tears.

Her distress was heightened when she saw the EFCC hand him over to the Nigerian Prison Service for confinement until May 30, 2019.

More to come.

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Congressperson speaking to Kaduna Central in the National Assembly, Shehu Sani, has said there is no such thing as 'fulanization' plan arranged to have the Fulani clan command Africa.

The Senator expressed this in a tweet on his official Twitter handle yesterday in response to the remarks by previous President Olusegun Obasanjo on the threat of Boko Haram rebellion and executioner herders.

The Senator likewise exposed the case that President Muhammadu Buhari is supporting extremists.

In any case, he noticed that there are claimed issues of nepotism under Buhari's administration like going before organizations.

Representative Sani stated: "The facts confirm that the radicals have a religious plan, however it's a delusion.

"It's false that the President is supporting the guerillas to accomplish that.

"There is likewise in no way like 'Fulanization'. Be that as it may, nepotism is a reality, as different past organizations."

It could be reviewed that Obasanjo had at a congregation occasion in Delta State last Saturday asserted that the twin wrongs of Boko Haram and executioner herders were never again issues of absence of training and work for our childhood in Nigeria however at this point a "West African Fulanization, Islamization and worldwide sorted out violations of human dealing, tax evasion, medicate dealing, weapon dealing, illicit mining and routine change."

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The Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed-drove Kwara State Government has denied moving State-possessed property out of the Government House.

The Government, in an announcement to GISTOK on Monday, expelled the story making the rounds in certain quarters as false news.

It was accounted for that Gov Ahmed and some other government authorities in the Government House, Ilorin were moving government property only couple of days as far as possible of their residency.

Be that as it may, in a short articulation marked by the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Media, Dr Muyideen Akorede, the legislature said what was by and large wrongly coursed were pictures of a truck heap of philanthropy (Zakat) things given by Alhaji Aliko Dangote through his establishment which were being removed from government house for conveyance to individuals with regards to the yearly practice.

The announcement included, "Obviously, those were not government property. For the record, all administration property inside government house are bar-coded and contained in a stock which will be given over to the approaching government."

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Representative Ganduje as of late marked into law a bill making four new emirates in Kano state and re-opened an examination concerning the funds of the Kano Emirate Council.

These activities by the state senator are asserted to be focused at the Emir of Kano for the supposed jobs he played in the simply finished up 2019 decisions, An unverified report claims that Emir Sanusi neutralized Governor Ganduje and the APC in the last races, a move which purportedly goaded the Kano state representative New subtleties have developed of supposed infractions by the Emir of Kano, Mallam Muhammadu Sanusi II, which prompted some extraordinary activities by Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, Daily Trust reports. Review that last week, Governor Ganduje marked into law a bill making four new emirates in the state.

So also, the state's enemy of debasement organization of the administration revived an examination concerning the funds of the Kano Emirate Council, the body managing the state's customary foundations, headed by Emir Sanusi.

FG These activities of the representative are affirmed to be focused at the Kano ruler. Coming not long after the 2019 general decisions, Ganduje's activities have been supposedly connected with the emir's supposed showcase of open partisanship amid the surveys. As per Daily Trust, authorities near the state representative uncovered that in the run-up to the governorship decision in the state, Emir Sanusi met around multiple times with the pioneer of the Kwankwasiyya development, Senator Rabi'u Musa Kwankwaso and Ganduje's primary challenger and competitor of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Engineer Abba Kabir Yusuf.

The gatherings were affirmed to be focused on the most proficient method to strategise on winning the gubernatorial decision, which Governor Ganduje in the end won. One of the sources supposedly asserted Emir Sanusi additionally coordinated region heads in the state not exclusively to vote in favor of the PDP in their separate areas yet to guarantee that the decision APC was crushed in the general races.

"He additionally called his relatives and guided them to work for the PDP and guarantee that the officeholder representative did not return for a second term. As though that was insufficient, the emir utilized his associations with prepare colossal assets through companions and colleagues and utilized same in battling against the APC amid the race," the authority was cited to have said.

The administration source additionally asserted that after the February 23 governorship race and the ensuing presentation of Kano gubernatorial survey as uncertain by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Emir called a few identities, beseeching them not to enable the rerun race to hold in Kano.

"He let some know of them that there was each inclination of Kano seeing another round of political mob if Abba Yusuf, the PDP competitor was not proclaimed victor of the race," the source stated, including, "Yet when it was clear that the rerun must hold, the Emir changed his technique by moving into the security hover attempting to persuade staff to neutralize the APC."

The source likewise asserted that the Kano ruler met with a senior cop sent to regulate the rerun decision and endeavored to impact him to help the PDP applicant. Additionally, another state government official refered to by Daily Trust blamed Sanusi for neutralizing Ganduje's second term offer, even after the senator had won the rerun decision.

The source asserted that Emir Sanusi coordinated the region leaders of the zones where the rerun survey was held to compose harming reports about it, with the end goal of ruining it. "Emir Sanusi coordinated all the region leaders of the territories influenced by the rerun race to think of reports that would demonstrate that the survey was damaged by viciousness.

A portion of the locale heads conformed to his mandates, however others would not do as such. Furthermore, even those that did it later admitted that they were guided by the Emir to do as such. "The Emir did as such numerous things which did contact the senator legitimately as well as the whole arrangement of the APC.

He likewise neutralized the Presidency straightforwardly by prompting general society against the Buhari-drove government," the source was additionally cited to have said. The authorities said that these supposed exercises by Sanusi got Governor Ganduje exceptionally irate.

The representative, in the wake of consenting to the new emirates bill, rapidly went round and issued the new emirs with staff of office. This is even as the state's Public Complaints and Anti-defilement Commission welcomed authorities of Sanusi's royal residence for addressing over the board's record.

Another allegedreason for the speed with which the new emirates bill was endorsed by the state gathering was the way that the speaker of the Kano state House of Assembly, Alhaji Kabiru Alhassan Rurum, holds the customary title of Turakin Rano and the formation of Rano Emirate would consequently make him a kingmaker. Turaki is apparently among the kingmakers by the suggestion of the Kano State Emirs (Appointment and Deposition) (Amendment) Law 2019.

a letter from our Editor-in-Chief Bayo Olupohunda Kano state's magistrate for data, Malam Muhammad Garba, purportedly declined remarking on anything identifying with the production of new emirates or the connection between the senator and the emir, taking note of that "these emirates have just been made." Sanusi's head of staff, Alhaji Munir Sanusi, additionally declined remark, saying, "I'm not in a situation to address push on this issue in light of the fact that there are other senior board individuals.

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential competitor, Atiku Abubakar, have documented a crisp application for access to data contained in the keen card perusers and "focal server", which it said the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) utilized for the lead of the contested race.

They documented the application before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, where their request testing President Muhammadu Buhari and his All Progressives Congress' triumph at the survey is pending.

The applicants, through their lead counsel, Dr Livy Uzoukwu (SAN), made the solicitation in their application documented before the court, notwithstanding INEC's request that the aftereffects of the decision were physically grouped and never transmitted electronically.

Uzochukwu, in a talk with Sunday Punch on Saturday, affirmed that the application was documented on May 9, including that the respondents – INEC, Buhari and APC – presently couldn't seem to record their answers to it.

INEC had pronounced that Buhari and APC the won the February 23 race with 15,191,847 votes to overcome his nearest rival, Atiku who surveyed 11,262,978 votes.

In any case, Atiku and the PDP, in their appeal documented on March 18 to test the result of the survey, expressed that "from the information" they got from INEC's server, "the genuine, real and right outcomes" demonstrated that they surveyed a sum of 18,356,732 votes to overcome Buhari whom they said scored 16,741,430 votes.

By figuring, Atiku and PDP professed to have vanquished Buhari by 1,615,302 votes. Notwithstanding, in its answer documented on April 10 to counter the appeal, INEC asked the court to reject the request, demanding that the solicitors' cases were false.

It stated, through its lead counsel, Yunus Usman (SAN), that it ordered the consequences of the race physically and never transmitted them electronically.

It included kept no server where results transmitted electronically could have been put away as asserted by the candidates.

Be that as it may, the solicitors, in their new application, kept up that INEC kept "focal servers" in which "data was recorded and put away in database parcels identifying with the accreditation of voters and transmission of results from the presidential race".

They tried to be allowed to assess the said servers and the card perusers utilized for the gather information, look at and examine the data got from them.

They additionally appealed to God for the council's authorization to be permitted to record a report of their investigation, examination and examination of the substance of the offices.

Their composed location recorded in help of the application read to some extent, "This movement is conveyed as per Section 151 (1) and (2) of the Electoral Act, 2010 (as corrected), Section 71 of the Electoral Act, 2010 (as altered), Paragraphs 18 (7) (e), 41 (5) and (6), 47 (2) and 54 of the First Schedule to Electoral Act, 2010, (as revised), Section (6) (b) Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as changed) and under the Inherent Jurisdiction of this Honorable Court.

"The movement appeals to God for the accompanying requests as communicated on the essence of the movement paper, to be specific:

"A request permitting access or a court-administered access and investigation by the Petitioners, within the sight of the second and third respondents (Buhari and APC) in the event that they so want, of the first respondent's (INEC's) focal servers wherein data was recorded and put away in database bundles identifying with accreditation of voters and transmission of results from the Presidential decision, the topic of this appeal.

"A request coordinating the first respondent's Chief National Electoral Commissioner or potentially different officers to concede the solicitors access to the said database bundles in the first respondent's focal servers.

"A request allowing leave to the candidates to examine and get ensured genuine duplicates of Smart Card Reader accreditation information from the Smart Card Readers utilized in the said decision and put away in the first respondent's servers.

"A request conceding leave to the solicitors to record a report of the review, examination and investigation thereof at the preliminary."

The candidates recorded 13 grounds to back their application and their cases in it.

Some portion of the grounds of the application recognized that INEC just as the two different respondents to the appeal — Buhari and APC — had negated their case about the electronic transmission of results to the server.

In any case, they demanded INEC was intrinsically and statutorily vested with the obligation to lead and deal with the presidential decision and set up electronic information focal servers.

They expressed, "The first respondent, as the body intrinsically and statutorily vested with the obligation to lead and deal with the presidential race, set up electronic information focal servers for the reasons for capacity of transmitted accreditation information and results from savvy card perusers conveyed for the race in an obvious offer to guarantee relative straightforwardness of the procedure.

"The respondents have, in their answers, united issues with the solicitors in regard of the said information transmitted to the INEC's focal servers."

Be that as it may, they stated, "The Electoral Act, 2010 (as corrected) itself recognizes organize information by acknowledgment given to the site of the Independent National Electoral Commission in area 71 of the Electoral Act, 2010 (as altered). We likewise present that area 84 of the Evidence Act, 2011 perceives PC information, and proof produced in this way.

"Along these lines, the general structure of the law obliges such information retrievable from PCs, of which a server is a capacity part."

Keeping up that INEC sent the servers for the direct of the February 23 survey, they said as a major aspect of the grounds of their application, "the aftereffects of the decision were electronically transmitted to the first respondent's Central Server".

They included that see had given INEC "see that dependence will be put on the concentrate of the electronic information from the said Central Server as at February 25, 2019".

They included, "The information from the said focal server is material and important for the only assurance of this appeal.

"The solicitors require the information from the said focal servers to keep up this appeal.

"The applicants additionally require the concentrate of the information from the savvy card perusers for the support of the appeal.

"The shrewd card perusers were utilized at the said race for check, accreditation, and validation of voters and for the transmission of results to the first respondent's servers."

They included, "It will work enormous hardship and grave treachery to decline access to the substance of the focal server that will help the noteworthy court in the equitable thought and assurance of the issues engaged with this issue or to permit a Party stifle or retain get to thereto."

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The Abia State part of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has scrutinized the ongoing abroad treks of the Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, to charm business financial specialists in the State.

The gathering guaranteed that the representative's inclination in junketing far and wide looking for financial specialists was a misuse of the citizen's cash in an unproductive endeavor.

The Publicity Secretary of APC in Abia, Comrade Benedict Godson, who made the gathering's position known, in a question and answer session in Umuahia, on Friday, chided the Peoples Democratic Party-drove government for purportedly squandering monies, which can be utilized to fix the infrastructural rots in the state.

He opined that the organization has kept on fumbling the state economy, which he guaranteed, have oppressed the Abia masses to yearning and penury.

His words, "We have been talking, yelling. For instance, there was an exhibit by beneficiaries over the disappointment of the Abia state government to pay them, combined with build-up of pay rates being owed to the state government employees.

" What we are stating is that you can run the framework with your Deputy great, the representative ought to do the needful. Government should run the manner in which it should be run and Abians should feel the effect of administration.

"You know, the PDP, their stock in exchange is certainly not another thing. They don't trust in great administration, and they don't have any acquaintance with it. Along these lines, for the senator being out for over a month, coming today without no substantial reason, there is no good thing in PDP government. Individuals are eager. Pay rates are not being paid. APC Abia state scowls at that. We trust, it is a terrible point of reference".

In the interim, the decision Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Abia State, says the ongoing trek of the State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu abroad would mean more vision and energy in his organization.

This was contained in an announcement issued on Friday, by the State Publicity Secretary, Don Ubani, who said the Governor's effective monetary missions will yield greater improvement, just as brag of a superior economy for Abia.

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday encouraged the Federal High Court, Abuja to expel the suit recorded by the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha provoking the commission's refusal to issue him his declaration of return.

Okorocha is in court requesting a request, convincing the commission to issue him a testament of return as the representative choose for Imo West Senatorial District.

NAN reports that at the continued hearing, Counsel to INEC, Mrs Wendy Kuku asked the court to reject the suit for being bumbling, saying the court needed purview to engage the issue.

She assaulted the locale of the court in light of the fact that being a post-race matter, it was just the National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal that had ward to hear it.

Kuku presented that the non-issuance of the declaration of return, which verged on the official and regulatory demonstration of INEC being tested in the suit was race related.

She contended that the reason for activity, having emerged out of a race that had been directed; the suit was not an issue inside the ward of the court yet that of the council.

The direction implored the court to expel or strike out the suit for ailing in legitimacy and need of purview.

On his part, Mr N.A. Nnawuchi (SAN), Counsel to the second litigant, (Jones Onyeriri), tested the method of the beginning of the suit.

Nnawuchi contended that initiating the suit by a beginning gathers when the realities were in debate rendered the suit clumsy.

He set that the best possible method of bringing the activity should have been by a writ of request, where oral proof could be called to determine the contest.

Nnawuchi encouraged the court to reject the suit or in the option, request pleadings where oral proof could be called.

Prior, Counsel to Okorocha, Mr Kehinde Ogunwumiju (SAN), in his accommodation, encouraged the court to give the reliefs looked for by his customer.

Ogunwumiju contended that the issue of pressure was the main protection raised by the litigants under the watchful eye of the court and that INEC did not utter a word about coercion.

As per him, the second to eighth litigants don't have any association with INEC or the returning officer to raise the issue of coercion.

He presented that the word pressure was a perspective of an individual and that just an individual upon whom coercion was applied could feel it.

"For this situation, the returning officer claimed to have been put under pressure is a specialist of INEC and he has given no proof at all.

"INEC his key has not raised any issue about pressure. There is a contention of proof between the offended party and second to eighth respondents.

"The law is that the court will depend on narrative proof to determine the issue."

The attorney said that the main narrative proof under the watchful eye of the court was the affirmed genuine duplicate of the police report on the gathering of decision result.

Ogunwumiju noticed that the court would find that there was no issue of brutality, risk or coercion, asking the court to concede the reliefs looked for by his customer.

The preliminary Judge, Justice Okon Abang, dismissed the issue until May 20 for continuation of hearing.

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Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State says the budgetary viewpoint of the state is certain. He gave the confirmation at the disclosing of the new digitized focal storeroom of the State Treasury Office in Alausa. Ambode said couple of days as far as possible of his residency, his responsibility to realize money related responsibility and powerful budgetary base for the state stays immovable.

"Women and respectable men, the residency of our organization is arriving at an end in a couple of days, yet our pledge to keeping up the money related responsibility, straightforwardness and making a strong budgetary base in the state is steady. Give me a chance to guarantee you that our state is protected; its accounts are secure and the viewpoint is very positive,"Ambode said.

The senator, spoken to by the Commissioner for Finance, Mr Akinyemi Ashade, said the new structure was in accordance with the common administration change set out upon by his organization. He said it was additionally some portion of the vision to constantly enhance and change the money related procedures of the state.

"Today is an extraordinary day for us since we are composing another section in the example of overcoming adversity of open budgetary administration in Lagos State. Today, we are moving from a simple framework to an advanced and cutting edge stage for putting away our basic reports," he said.

Giving insights regarding the office, Ambode said the structure was fitted with current gear which would change over all physical installment vouchers and supporting records into electronic structure. He said this would be in this way put away to help simple and consistent chronicling just as recovery of security records. Ambode said that the change would go far to guarantee that the state's open budgetary data the executives framework was in accordance with driving practices over the world.

"By progressing from manual to electronic arrangement of chronicling and recovering vouchers and other supporting archives, we have exhibited a guarantee to putting resources into data and correspondence innovation to control the State on its adventure towards a Smart City.

"Asides the electronic stockpiling, this complex likewise houses a ultra present day staff preparing office with ability to oblige 150 people for treasury staff in the state common administration.

"With the premium our organization puts on customary limit improvement, this preparation office ended up objective and will give the helpful condition to in-house specialized preparing of money and record officers.

"This will no uncertainty improve the efficiency and nature of yield as we keep on structure the specialized limit of our staff," he said.

Prior, the senator authorized the dualised Bisola Durosinmi Etti/Hakeem Dickson Road in Lekki zone of the state.

He said that his organization not just organized recharging and improvement of street foundation, however used a comprehensive methodology that had contacted both provincial and urban zones in the state.

Spoken to by the Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Mr Ade Akinsanya, the representative said his organization had given the hub the consideration it merited as far as infrastructural improvement, considering its closeness with the Lekki Free Trade Zone.

In his comments, Chairman of the Lekki Phase 1 Residents Association, Mr Kayode Otitoju, praised the senator on the undertakings.

He said that the street had changed the pivot and overhauled their way of life.

READ MORE: https://gistok.ng/ambode-says-lagos-financial-outlook-very-positive/

Information made accessible by the Nigeria Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has demonstrated that 28 states would be unfit to finance their 2019 spending plans from income acknowledged in 2018 and 2017.

The information was made accessible in the NEITI Quarterly Review, marked by its representative, Dr. Orji Ogbonnaya Orji.

The eight expresses that would almost certainly support their 2017 and 2018 income are Enugu, Kaduna, Delta, Yobe, Lagos, Kano, Nasarawa and Rivers.

The 28 expresses that would not have the option to subsidize their spending limits are Abia, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Ebonyi, Edo, Ekiti, Gombe, Imo, Jigawa, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi, Kwara, Niger, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers, Sokoto, Taraba , Zamfara.

As indicated by the report, no one but Yobe can subsidize its 2019 spending plan from the distributions it got from the alliance accounts portions board of trustees (FAAC).

A drop in oil costs additionally influenced FAAC distributions as the three levels of government were unfit to share N2 trillion in the first quarter of 2019 similar to the pattern since the second quarter of 2018.

"Oil costs encountered a descending winding from November 2018. Oil costs were above $80 per barrel in October 2018 yet by December 2018 they had dropped to $57 per barrel," NEITI said.

"Normal oil cost for the first quarter of 2019 was $63.17 per barrel. The average oil cost for the year 2018 was $71.06 per barrel. In this way, oil costs have been extensively lower in the initial three months of 2019 than they were in 2018."

NEITI portrayed the spending limits of states as being "generally excessively idealistic," and included that there are wide discrepancies in the net FAAC distributions to states.

"This survey demonstrated that financial limits for states are to a great extent excessively hopeful.

"There is no express whose net FAAC distributions in either 2017 or 2018 can satisfactorily fund their financial limits for 2019.

"This features the central hole in the capacity of FAAC distributions to fund state spending plans and brings into the center the significance of inside created income (IGR). It additionally demonstrates the certainty of obtaining by states," NEITI said.

On Sunday, The Economic Confidential discharged it's Annual States Viability Index (ASVI) for 2018 and demonstrated that 17, of the 36 conditions of the Federation, are bankrupt as their IGR, in 2018, were far beneath 10 percent of their receipts from the FAAC around the same time.

The record registered by The Economic Confidential uncovered that without the month to month payment from FAAC, a large number of the states stayed unviable and can't get by without the governmentally disseminated gifts to a great extent from the oil area.

States create the IGRs through Pay-As-You-Earn Tax (PAYE), direct evaluation, street duties and incomes from Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs).

The IGR of the 36 conditions of the organization totaled N1.1 trillion out of 2018 when contrasted with N931 billion of every 2017, an expansion of N172 billion. The magazine's report additionally shown that the IGR of Lagos, at N382 billion, was higher than that of 30 states set up together whose IGRs are amazingly low and poor contrasted with their designations from the Federation Account.

In the meantime, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, which isn't a state yet the nation's capital, created N65 billion IGR against N29 billion from the Federation Account; in a similar period.

read more: https://gistok.ng/28-states-can-not-finance-2019-budgets-neiti/

The Hope Democratic Party and its presidential applicant, Ambrose Owuru, have asked the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to stop the arranged introduction of President Muhammadu Buhari on May 29 for a second term pending the consultation and assurance of their allure testing the President's triumph at the February 23 survey.

The application by the applicants was booked for hearing on Tuesday, yet it was deferred till May 22 after the respondents educated the five-person council driven by Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa that they were just presented with the application in no time before the beginning of the procedures and requested time to react.

In their application recorded on May 9, 2019, the applicants, through their legal counselor, Mr. Oliver Eya, fought that Buhari ought not to be confirmed while his race was all the while being tested at the court.

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They, in this manner, looked for two supplications, with one looking for a request limiting Buhari from introducing himself for the introduction planned to hang on May 29, and the other controlling the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, from managing the pledge of office and devotion to the President upon the arrival of initiation.

Their supplications read, "A request of this respectable court limiting the first respondent thus from introducing himself on May 29, 2019 or some other date for swearing in or initiation function or making the vow of faithfulness or office as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, pending the assurance of this Petition and the inquiry with respect to whether he has been legitimately chosen as tested and pending under the steady gaze of the court.

"A request of this fair court limiting the Chief Justice of Nigeria or any ‎other Justice in that stead from swearing in, overseeing the promise of devotion and vow of office or taking an interest in the initiation service on May 29, 209 or some other date to swear in the first respondent, s the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria pending the assurance of this appeal challenging the legitimacy of the substituted and addressed presidential race of February 23, 2019."

The candidates are testing Buhari's triumph at the survey because the rescheduling of the presidential decision from February 16, 2019, to February 23, 2019, was done "with no unmistakable nearness or presence as well as consistency with endorsed statutory conditions to do as such."

Buhari, the Independent National Electoral Commission, and the All Progressives Congress are the three respondents to the appeal.

They were altogether spoken to by their legal counselors at Tuesday's pre-hearing session.


read more: https://gistok.ng/hdp-asks-the-court-to-suspend-the-second-investiture-of-the-mandate-of-buhari/

The Buhari Media Organization (BMO) has said President Muhammadu Buhari is unfit to mediate in the ongoing decrease of Emir Muhammadu Sanusi's forces and impact by Kano state government since it isn't admissible for him to go past his established powers and get engaged with carefully state matters.

In an announcement marked by its administrator, Niyi Akinsiju, and Secretary, Cassidy Madueke, BMO said it was shoddy political coercion for anybody to state or suggest that President Buhari had fore-learning of the arrangement.

BMO further noticed that it was similarly improper and unreasonable for any ideological group, gathering or individual to construe that the President ought to have mediated in the issue.

The announcement peruses, "Implications that President Buhari ought to have mediated in the issue are lost, out of line and misled as he has no sacred capacity to intercede in the process since it is merely a state matter.

"It is an inward undertaking that worries the administration of Kano State and neither the Federal government nor the president has any control over it. The PDP has reliably and unethically endeavored to drag the president into issues that worry the states as it were."

"They should realize that it isn't reasonable for him to go past his sacred powers and get associated with issues over which he has no legitimate ideal to assume any job," the gathering said.

read more: https://gistok.ng/emir-sanusi-why-buharis-hands-are-tied-bmo/

The Lagos State section of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has upbraided the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, for demanding that political adoptive parents in Lagos State must be resigned.

El-Rufai, who as of late said he conquered the slaughter of godfatherism in his state, encouraged Lagos State to duplicate same, a remark that drew blended responses from Nigerians, particularly the political class.

In spite of the judgments that welcomed his remark, the senator yesterday demanded that he owed no one expression of remorse for soliciting individuals from the state to dismiss godfatherism.

In any case, in a quick response, the previous evening, Lagos State section of APC bludgeoned the representative, saying the talk was modest, including Tinubu remained their pioneer.

An announcement by the state's representative, Joe Igbokwe read: "They need to resemble Asiwaju, they need to order regard, they need the world to acknowledge them the manner in which they have acknowledged Asiwaju, they need to get incredible devotees like Asiwaju BAT, they need to be appreciated the manner in which individuals respect Asiwaju, they need the general population to adore them the manner in which they cherish Asiwaju, they need to stand tall anyplace they go like Asiwaju, they need to draw in consideration like Asiwaju, they need to be praised and regarded like Asiwaju, they need to be loved the way Asiwaju extraordinary supporters revere him, they need be lifted the manner in which God has lifted Asiwaju, they need to be seen like Asiwaju, they need to emerge like Asiwaju, and they need to impact choices at all dimensions like Asiwaju, and so forth.'

"Actions speak louder than words, anyone can own any expression. They need to resemble Asiwaju, they need to order regard, they need the world to acknowledge them the manner in which they have acknowledged Asiwaju, they need to be respected the manner in which individuals appreciate Asiwaju. Tinubu praises Nigerians on Buhari's re-appointment says he will proceed with hostile to defilement battle

"Be that as it may, in activities and deeds, they dislike Asiwaju. In character and narrow mindedness, they dislike Asiwaju. In responsibility and diligent work, they dislike BAT. In beauty and compassion, they dislike BAT. In demeanor and love for mankind, they dislike Asiwaju.

"They can't surrender their home to the general population how BAT has been doing. They can't battle for other people, the method in which BAT does. They can't deny themselves an opportunity for others how BAT does. They can't represent customary individuals the way Asiwaju does.

"They can't be believed how we confide in BAT. They can't give the style in which BAT does. They can't forfeit what BAT has yielded for humanity for near 40 years. They can't live for others the way Asiwaju has accomplished for a considerable length of time. I can continue forever; however, he who must lead others should initially influence himself.

"We pursue our pioneer, Asiwaju, because he works for us, notwithstanding when we are dozing. We continue and respect our pioneer since he crushes his spirit for us. We tail him since he thinks about us all. We tail him since he knows where he is going. We pursue BAT since he has earned our trust throughout recent decades.

"We tail him since he has never baffled us. We pursue Asiwaju because he is engaged and dynamic. We continue Asiwaju because he has not fizzled us. We tail him since he is reliable.

"We tail him since he battles for us. We tail him because the man is a profound scholar. We pursue Asiwaju because he esteems us without measure."

read more: https://gistok.ng/tinubu-again-apc-fires-back-at-el-rufai-for-insisting-godfathers-in-lagos-must-be-retired/

Uncommon Adviser to the Rivers State Governor on Infrastructure, Otonye Briggs, yesterday, told the Justice Monima Danagogo-drove Judicial Commission of Inquiry that the Nigerian Army detained him for 11 days and denied him the privilege to play out his city obligation amid the March 9 race.

The commission was initiated by Governor Wike to examine the remote and quick reasons for appointive viciousness, killings and other related acts that happened amid the February 23 and March 9, presidential, governorship and House of Assembly races individually, in Rivers.

Briggs blamed the 6 Division for the Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt, for denying him to play out his obligation as the returning and grouping specialist of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area, for governorship survey.

He blamed chieftains for the resistance in the zone of being the driving forces of the evil treatment dispensed to him by the military.

"On March 9, I went out to complete my community duty since it was a race day.

"In all respects early morning on that day, I dressed by 7 am to go to the RAC focus, where the race materials should be conveyed.

"I was the returning/examination operator of PDP in Akuku-Toru committee. Given that position, I should be available at the RAC focus to observe how the race materials would be dispersed to the units and wards for the decision to start.

"Four military vehicles headed to where I was with around 15-20 military vehicles. I found in one of the Army vehicles, an officer wearing a white T-shirt and pointed at me as one of the PDP pioneers. The Army officers looked at their firearms at me and said I was set to be taken to jail.

"They captured me, denying me the chance to release my task as PDP returning and assemblage specialist for governorship decision on that March 9 race.

"It was on March 19, or 20, that a court request was made. Rather than Army to discharge me dependent on court request, they released me to FSARS. I sent a message to my legal counselor.

"It was FSARS that discharged me dependent on the court request after I was detained for 11 days in cells," he told the commission.

Essentially, the Akuku-Toru chamber Secretary and Leader of Ward 14, Obama Tobins, told the commission of request that more than 70 fighters, with eight Hilux vans, attacked his living arrangement looking for the board Chairman, Rowland Sekibo, and different chieftains of the resistance in the region.

read more: https://gistok.ng/obasekis-performance-aftervpdp-chieftain-adun-mulls-return-to-apc/

The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday affirmed the incorporation of the National Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) to serve on the leading administering body of the Proceed of Crimes Recovery and Management Agency (PCR).

In a supported movement by the Senate head, Ahmed Lawan, he said the NFIU, which is an enemy of defilement element, would assume an essential job in the organization.

The Proceed of Crimes Recovery and Management Agency bill was passed into law as of late and anticipating harmonization by the gathering board of trustees.

In the passed bill, NFIU was not on the overseeing board in spite of its essential job as an enemy of debasement outfit, a circumstance that incited the Senate to rethink its prior stand.

Lawan saw that “after necessary examination of the charge, some critical issues which require new authoritative activity on proviso five occasioned by the foundation of the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) which was not thought about in the Proceed of Crimes Recovery and Management Agency bill was taken note.

Mindful that the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit as an enemy of defilement element will assume an essential job in the task of the Proceed of Crimes Recovery and Management Agency. ”

Representative Lawan further contended that the incorporation would be following commonly prescribed procedures, henceforth, Nigeria can’t be a particular case.

Read more: https://gistok.ng/the-senate-approves-the-inclusion-of-the-nfiu-in-the-board-of-directors-of-proceeds-of-crime-recovery-management/

Previous Vice President and presidential competitor of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari and the overseeing All Progressives Congress (APC) assume the liability of uncertainty in Nigeria.

Atiku was responding to a report purportedly discharged by the United States based Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), called Center for Diplomacy and Democracy, which accused the resistance in Nigeria for the killings and kidnappings.

In an announcement Tuesday by his representative, Paul Ibe, Atiku said the APC supported the created report.

“It is the most profound low that Muhammadu Buhari organization has gone in bringing about additional division and advancing insecurity in Nigeria,” it read.

Anybody versed enough in the convention of worldwide NGOs will perceive absent much ado that the specific report by a nondescript, stale association known as ‘Community for Diplomacy and Democracy’ was imagined with express assembly from authorities of the Buhari organization in a bold and guileful endeavor to locate a jejune clarification for the rising rate of uncertainty in Nigeria.
Our examination has uncovered that there is no such report as being touted and no such body called ‘Place for Diplomacy and Democracy.’ Americans will never compose ‘Center.’ They will compose ‘Center’ in adjustment to the American English use”.

Atiku bludgeoned the President and his group for utilizing the administrations of an unremarkable NGO to blame the resistance for its incompetence.

“We should remind President Buhari that the buck stops on his table and his simple style of searching for whom to fault for his disappointments won’t annihilate his horrifying record of execution in the previous four years.

READ MORE: https://gistok.ng/atiku-criticizes-apc-for-a-false-security-report-mocks-buharis-comment-on-igp/

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal is to start knowing about the appeal by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and its competitor, Atiku Abubakar against the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The council will hold its debut session on Wednesday at the Abuja division of the Court of Appeal.

Calendar of exercises was discharged on Tuesday with four petitions for notice.

The first is the one recorded by Hope Democratic Party (HDP) and Ambrose Owuru, who professed to be the gathering’s presidential applicant. The appeal, checked: CA/PEPC/001/2019 was recorded on March 7 this year.

The second, checked: CA/PEPC/002/2019 was recorded on March 18 this year by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and its hopeful in the decision, Atiku Abubakar.

The third checked: CA/PEPC/003/2019 was recorded by the Coalition for Change (C4C) and Jeff Ojinika, who professed to be the gathering’s presidential competitor.

The fourth appeal checked: CA/PEPC/004/2019, was recorded on March 19 this year by the People’s Democratic Movement (PDM) and Pastor Aminchi Habu, marked as the gathering’s presidential competitor.

Atiku is demanding that the outcome from the server of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) affirmed he crushed President Buhari.

The lawful group of Atiku and the PDP is being driven by Livy Uzoukwu (SAN).

In subtleties of his request to the court, the former VP gave the “interesting MAC address and Microsoft item ID of the INEC server” from where the outcomes were acquired.

While INEC official outcomes demonstrate that Buhari surveyed 15,191,847 and Atiku coming next with 11,262,978 votes, the Wazirin Adamawa is contending that he studied an aggregate of 18,356,732 votes to Buhari’s 16,741,430 votes.

Atiku and the PDP said that the location of the server from which the outcomes were acquired are exceptional to INEC.

Read more: https://gistok.ng/nigeria-election-hearing-of-atikus-petition-against-buhari-begins-wednesday/

The pioneer of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, has declared where he will command the inevitable “Biafra Remembrance Day.”

Kanu has been out of the nation since after the Military attack at his Afara Ukwu home in Umuahia, Abia State.

Kanu said he would be in Atlanta Georgia, the United States of America on May 30.

Kanu uncovered this using his Twitter handle, including that Biafra Remembrance Day is multi-day put aside for all Biafrans to respect those that kicked the bucket in the battle for Biafra realization.

The IPOB boss likewise asked individuals from the gathering and all “Biafrans” to sit at home on that day.
Kanu expressed, “I will join individual Biafrans over the USA and the remainder of the world to stamp the current year’s May 30 Remembrance Day at the headliner in Atlanta Georgia.

“We must respect the individuals who kicked the bucket that we may live. #SitAtHome crosswise over Biafraland

READ MORE: https://gistok.ng/nnamdi-kanu-reveals-where-he-will-celebrate-biafras-day-of-remembrance/

The Federal High Court Abuja, has fixed June 27, to hear a suit challenging the campaign funding of President Muhammadu Buhari, and the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar in their 2019 campaigns.

NAN reports that the suit was filed by the presidential candidate of the National Rescue Movement (NRM), Usman Alhaji, asking the court to nullify the participation of Buhari and Atiku in Feb. 23 Presidential poll.

Alhaji prayed the court to disqualify Buhari and Atiku because they spent above the amount provided for by the Electoral Act in their campaigns.

Specifically, the plaintiff is praying the court to set aside the participation of Buhari and Atiku on the grounds that they spent more than N1 billion each, as campaign expenses.

Others joined as defendants in the suit are: the All Progressives Congress, the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) and the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC).

The suit was filed by Mr Ezekiel Ofou, who urged the court to invoke Section 91(2) of the Electoral Act, 2010 to nullify the participation of Buhari and Atiku in the poll for allegedly violating the electoral laws.

Read more: https://gistok.ng/what-happened-in-court-during-hearing-on-suit-to/

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on Monday confirmed the abduction of a male corps member, Abraham Amuta, by Boko Haram insurgents in Borno.

The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that Borno State Coordinator, Mr Rabiu Aminu, confirmed the incident to newsmen in Maiduguri.

Aminu disclosed that the corps member was abducted alongside a pastor with the Living Faith Church, simply identified as Oyeleke, in an attack coordinated by the insurgents against motorists on Maiduguri to Chibok road on April 10.

He disclosed that the corps member with Registration Number: BO18b/067; was deployed to Borno State Council of Arts and Culture, located in Maiduguri.
Aminu disclosed that the corps member was abducted alongside a pastor with the Living Faith Church, simply identified as Oyeleke, in an attack coordinated by the insurgents against motorists on Maiduguri to Chibok road on April 10.

He disclosed that the corps member with Registration Number: BO18b/067; was deployed to Borno State Council of Arts and Culture, located in Maiduguri.

The coordinator lamented that the corps member was abducted while travelling together with his pastor and other members of the church.

Read more: https://gistok.ng/boko-haram-nysc-confirms-abduction-of-corps-member-in-borno/

Fuel scarcity is imminent in at least three States of the Southeast following a strike declared by the Petroleum Tanker Drivers, PTD, Enugu Zone.

The strike, which took effect from today, Monday, led to all the drivers abandoning their duty posts.

A visit by GISTOK to the Nigeria National Petroeum Coorporation, NNPC office, Enugu Depot, showed that all the drivers were nowhere to be found.

At the office of the NNPC in the area, a senior staff who preffered anonymity NNPC office, Enugu Depot, showed that all the drivers were nowhere to be found.

At the office of the NNPC in the area, a senior staff who preffered anonymity, said she was not aware of the reason behind the strike.

“You can see I’m in my own office working; so, I don’t why they are on strike. You should go and ask them or the IPMAN; they are in the best position to know,” she said.

When pressed further to know whether the NNPC was notified of the strike, she simply said, “go to our coorporate headquarters for whatever information you need. I am not in a position to talk to the media on any issue.”
Efforts to get comments from the PTD leadership also proved abortive as both the chairman and the secretary were said not to be on seat.

But some officials at their Emene office, beside the NNPC depot, said they gave notice of the strike to all the appropriate authorities.

“Since they don’t want to do what we requested, we have no option than to go on strike. By tomorrow, you will be trecking to this our office”, one of them boasted.

Speaking to journalists on the development, the Enugu State Chairman of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association, IPMAN, Comrade Tagbo Nnamani said two key leaders of the PTD should be held responsible for any fuel supply crisis in the zone.

Read more: https://gistok.ng/ptd-strike-fuel-scarcity-looms-in-enugu-anambra-ebonyi/

President Muhammadu Buhari’s comments about the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, following his arrival from his 10-day private visit to the United Kingdom, is attracting a lot of negative reactions.
Buhari was asked about security challenges across Nigeria and if there would be a different approach in tackling the issues.

“I have just seen the IG, I think he’s losing weight, so I think he is working very hard,” the president replied.

His response has drawn criticisms across Twitter, especially with the increase in kidnapping, robbery and insurgency in several parts of the country.

Here are some of the tweets GISTOK was able to curate:

@Amynullah1: He’s not supposed to joke on such a serious issue. Why naw, Baba why?

@ugwuvictor18: Please how does losing weight got to do with the increase in Kidnapping and killing in the country today..I think we are in more trouble.. God have Mercy ..

@gempluz: This is what y’all voted. The joke is on you…I mean you.

@TangbanFavour: No sensitivity of any form. You’re cracking jokes concerning the security situation in the country. So much for being president.

@Pweitydebi: It’s going to be a very looooooooong 4 years .

@hannesambo: It’s like we are a joke to this President.

@Elda03188530: The killings have become a source of comedy to Mr President.

@boywene: Nigerians… Behold your Commander in Chief. The number one citizen of the federal republic of Nigeria. Nigeria will receive sense.

@Bariga2Dworld: So once you are losing weight now (even if it’s in a gym) it means you are working very hard on national security matters while insecurity persists.

@kelvinekerete: Nigeria is doomed!! God!!! What did we do to deserve this?

@Malan_D5: This is Embarrassing. Haba Baba, we need to take things more seriously, nobody cares if the IG is losing weight�‍♂️

@Adolfbaba: Don’t be surprised to see all the Ministers losing weight…


read more: https://gistok.ng/video-buhari-under-fire-over-comments-on-ig-of-police/

The British Royal family has welcomed another child. The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle delivered of a baby boy on Monday morning, May 6th. This was confirmed in a statement by the royal family on Monday.
“Her Royal Highness, The Duchess of Sussex was safely delivered of a son at 0526hrs this morning”.

“The baby weighs 7lbs 3oz. The Duke of Sussex was present for the birth.

“The Queen, The Duke of Edinburgh, The Prince of Wales, The Duchess of Cornwall, The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Lady Jane Fellowes, Lady Sarah McCorquodale and Earl Spencer have been informed and are delighted with the news.

“The Duchess’s mother, Doria Ragland, who is overjoyed by the arrival of her first grandchild, is with Their Royal Highnesses at Frogmore Cottage.

“Her Royal Highness and the baby are both doing well,” the statement read.

read more: https://gistok.ng/breaking-duchess-of-sussex-meghan-markle-delivers-baby-boy/

The International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague on Monday decided that holding office as head of state does not shield an individual from global arraignment.
The decision was passed in a new case that fixates on previous Sudanese president Omar Al-Bashir.

“Al-Bashir ought to have been captured by Jordan when he visited the Middle Eastern nation in 2017,” the ICC found, maintaining its underlying judgment from December of that year.

The court had issued a capture warrant against Al-Bashir in 2009 for wrongdoings against humankind, atrocities, and massacre against regular people and ethnic gatherings in Sudan’s Darfur area.

Despite the warrant, Jordan did not keep Al-Bashir when he visited as president two years prior, contending that his title gave him resistance.

The judges in The Hague said that Jordan had a twofold commitment to do as such, because the nation has joined to the court’s resolutions and because it is involved with the UN Genocide Convention.

Nonetheless, managing judge Chile Eboe-Osuji said that alluding Jordan to the UN for conceivable assent went excessively far.

Under court rules, judges can utilize their circumspection on whether an infringement is not kidding enough to provoke a referral.

“The Appeals Chamber discovers merit in Jordan’s contentions and thinks about that the Pre-Trial Chamber mishandled its attentiveness,” the judge said.

Eboe-Osuji noticed that South Africa, which neglected to capture Al-Bashir amid a 2015 visit, was additionally not alluded to the UN.

read more: https://gistok.ng/heads-of-state-not-protected-by-immunity-the-international-court/

Adebayo is the child of the governorship applicant of the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State in the 2018 decision, Senator Ademola Adeleke. He discusses his dad’s life and legislative issues with OLUSHOLA RICKETTS.

Reveal to us increasingly about yourself.

I am an artist and one of the offspring of Senator Ademola Adeleke.

Is being an artist your fantasy as a tyke?

I didn’t figure I would be an artist yet a competent drummer. Despite everything, I intend to bring drums into my music.

Did your dad bolster your choice to make music?

He needed me to concentrate on my investigations, not music. As per him, the fantasy of everybody is to make it throughout everyday life. He didn’t think there was a significant prospect in music at that point. However, I disclosed to him I comprehended what I was doing.

When I, at last, wandered into music, he didn’t converse with me for a year or thereabouts. He began having confidence in my music when his loved ones started to disclose to him how great I was. He is currently my main fan; he has been loud of my music.

I didn’t feel terrible when he didn’t bolster my choice to make music. Now and again, one needs to substantiate oneself before individuals trust in one. I think that is the way life is.

Has your dad tuned in to your new single, E Better, including Don Jazzy?

Honestly, he has tuned in to it. He has seen the video as well. Give me a chance to impart to you the message he sent to me. He stated, “Child, this tune is phenomenal. It is incredible, a pleasant one.” I think anything my dad lets me know since he can’t mislead me.

Is it accurate to say that you are his single youngster who makes music?

My senior sibling, Sina Rambo, makes music as well. Before long, he will discharge his new single, where he includes Zlatan Ibile.

What number of kin do you have?

My dad wedded more than one spouse. From my mom, I have four kin. In any case, altogether, I have nine kin. I am the second offspring of my dad.

What does your mom do?

My mom is situated in the United States of America. She works there.

How close would you say you are to your dad?

We are exceptionally close. We talk pretty much consistently paying little respect to how bustling he is.

What things get him furious?

He doesn’t care for individuals who lie or cheat. He needs one to be direct with him and to dependably keep to one’s statement.

Does he have most loved nourishment?

My dad likes sustenance a great deal. I can’t name one nourishment as his top choice. He enjoys rice and stew a great deal. He likewise prefers African sustenance, for example, beat yam, eba, and amala.

I resemble my dad with regards to sustenance. I like various types of nourishment as long as they taste great.

How might you portray your dad?

He is a cherishing father. He didn’t realize he would wander into legislative issues. He thinks about individuals a ton; that is the reason he accepts his position as a representative truly. He doesn’t care for seeing individuals enduring. I realize he will have an extraordinary effect on the off chance that he turns into the legislative head of Osun State.

Are there designs to wander into governmental issues like your dad?

Indeed, nobody realizes what tomorrow holds. One can never tell because my dad didn’t even know he would go into legislative issues as well.

Was there a period he addressed you about joining legislative issues?

He presently can’t seem to do as such, yet he knows Davido (David Adeleke), and I have the energy for legislative issues.

Is it accurate to say that you are mindful that your dad is nicknamed ‘moving representative’?

It went to an occasion at the MUSON Center, Onikan, Lagos, and heard individuals considered him the epithet. I realized he was known as the name. At the point when individuals began taking photographs with him, considering him the ‘moving representative,’ I saw that he was upbeat.

How would you feel when your dad is moving?

I am continually grinning since individuals adore him such an enormous amount for that. Anyplace I go, individuals dependably get some information about him. There is no adoration higher than that.

Did you feel terrible when it was reported that your dad lost the Osun State governorship race?

I didn’t feel terrible because I realized we would get our ‘stolen command’ back.

What do you share just the same as your dad?

I am a more active form of my dad. We have similar legs, face, and head. Additionally, if my dad yells and I yell, it will be challenging to differentiate.

How can he discipline his youngsters?

Entertainingly enough, while growing up, my dad didn’t utilize the stick on me. The least he could do was to drag my ears, and he would caution me never to get into mischief again. In any case, it was diverse with my mom; she flagellated me well.

How can he reward his kids at whatever point they awe him?

When we were more youthful, he was continually taking us to various energizing spots the world over.

Although I was conceived in the US, my dad took us back to Nigeria sooner or later to become familiar with the way of life. I am happy he made such a stride since I am presently glad we came to Nigeria.

It is safe to say that he is the sort who ruins his kids?

I don’t know he spoilt us as children. However, growing up, we had all that we needed because my dad doesn’t underestimate his kids. It was the point at which we demanded we needed to make music, and our folks disregarded us. When they saw that we were gaining ground, they bolstered us. I am discussing Sina, Davido and myself.

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has started a new examination against active Senate President, Bukola Saraki.

This was made known through a letter marked by the EFCC Zonal Head administering Kwara, Isyaku Sharu, and routed to the Permanent Secretary, Kwara Government House.

As per the letter made accessible to correspondents amid the end of the week, the counter join organization said its new examination tries to investigate all pay rates, repayments, estacodes, and installments Saraki got as the senator from 2003 to 2011.

The letter entitled: ‘Examination Activities: Dr. Bukola Saraki’ peruses to some degree: “In perspective on the abovementioned, you are mercifully mentioned to outfit us with the full subtleties of every one of his privileges to incorporate however not restricted to payments, remittances, estacodes, other incidental advantages and severance bundle while he held influence as the Executive Governor of Kwara State somewhere in the range of 2003 and 2011.


“This solicitation is made according to Section 38 (1) and (2) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act, 2004 and Section 21 of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act.”

Review that Saraki had not long after developing the eighth National Assembly Senate President, was indicted yet released and absolved by the Supreme Court after the Federal Government neglected to refute claims of advantage assertion against him.

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Straight from the February 2019 Presidential Election, the Vice Presidential competitor of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former legislative head of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has communicated profound feelings of trepidation for the eventual fate of the nation.

In this select meeting with The Sun group of senior editors in his Lagos home, he discussed an army of issues, including obligation issues, joblessness, governors security vote, among others. The previous senator pushed enactment to counteract the maltreatment of security cast a ballot, both at the national and state levels.

Obi criticized the high rate of joblessness, cautioning that it is a ticking time bomb, which must be earnestly tended to for the benefit of the nation. He likewise proffered arrangement on how the country can be removed from the forested areas and how the economy can be brought in the groove again. He talked with Eric Osagie, Onuoha Ukeh, Femi Babafemi, and Chinelo Obogo.

How has your experience been since the presidential crusade and decision? When you think back, will you say that it was justified, despite all the trouble?

It is justified, despite all the trouble for me because regardless, you need to consider how to contribute in structure a superior nation. We have no other country except for this one. I am asking everybody to make the penance of being a piece of structure for our nation. A great many people would state that there are such a large number of issues in getting associated with legislative matters. It is valid, yet the nation won’t beat that on the off chance that we are not included.

Have you laments?

No, I don’t. Whatever happened is a piece of life. Individuals will dependably say that on the off chance that you venture out of your home, there is a probability that you can bite the dust of mishaps, and on the off chance that you remain inside, there is likewise the likelihood that you can kick the bucket of craving or any malady since you turned out poorly. Indeed, there were issues of badgering. However, I tell individuals that we can’t go on like this. If you have a nation where everyone is being nagged, no remote financial specialist will come in.

You created an impression amid the discussion that we can’t close our shops and be pursuing hoodlums. I don’t get your meaning by that?

The similarity is exceptionally straightforward. Nigeria isn’t the leading ‘degenerate’ nation on the planet, and it isn’t the most immoral. Large countries, for example, China and India were, at once, undeniably more degenerate than we are present.

It is unimaginable to expect to have a nation of holy people. Such a state does not exist, and we can’t profess to be religious people. In endeavoring to free the general public of pollution, we need to seek after the vision of structuring a country. The fate of the country is undeniably increasingly significant. You should draw a line among yesterday and today.

What is increasingly significant is to verify today while step by step endeavoring to recoup what you lost before. On the off chance that you are centered around the past, you will miss tomorrow. Our economy is deteriorating because we are centered around yesterday as opposed to concentrating on tomorrow.

I have been a senator for a long time where I acquired schools that were not working. As you most likely are aware, schools in Anambra were closed down in 2001. We were in reverse in training and wellbeing, and the state owed quite a while of a tip. My antecedent began some work on the streets, which was generally fantastic and I laud him for it.

In the eight years of my organization, we ended up number one in training. We won the Bill Gates grant for wellbeing. We had the best street system, and we turned into the best in budgetary administration. On the off chance that we were centered around the past when schools were closed, we would not have accomplished all that.

Do you trust that concentrating on the past is a noteworthy diversion?

You can give the previous 10 percent of your time and focus on your present and future.

Right now, the new the lowest pay permitted by law has been endorsed by the Federal Government, while a few governors as yet owing to the N18, 000 the lowest payment permitted by law. How would you figure governors can confront the test ahead?

The individuals who owe pay rates can improve. Everyone can give a reason for owing pay, however for me, and you shouldn’t owe specialists. At the point when individuals work, they should be paid. Likewise, owing annuities are far and away more terrible.

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