President Muhammadu Buhari and eight All Progressives Congress (APC) state governors were yesterday respected for their steadfastness to the gathering since the merger in 2014.

This is even as the President has bothered the requirement for genuine federalism during this season of Nigeria’s vote based advancement. He was explicitly respected with honor for his remarkable characteristics in authority. The recognition was given to the President by the Progressive Governors Forum, which involves All Progressives Congress (APC) state governors.

The honor is said to be a motion of appreciation for the bailout to states to clear pay rates accumulation, the arrival of overabundance rough help, his assistance to concede the advances which had kept governors from gathering their commitments, the appearance of the Paris Club discount following six years of fight in court just as the Road Intervention Refund.

President Buhari who depicted the honor as amazement said it’s a support to keep on accomplishing more in moving Nigeria’s big government to the following dimension. The President who said he saw the honor as an impression of the aggregate duty of the states and central government to work agreeably to discover answers for the formative difficulties confronting the nation, repeated his promise to improve the welfare of the Nigerians. He focused on that it was essential to construct connects over the partition for an assembled, unbreakable nation.

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His words: “We stay focused on improving the welfare of the Nigerian individuals. Your Excellencies, it will harp on the point to state that genuine federalism is essential at this crossroads of our political and popularity based development.

“When approximately few special people and gatherings have misused and control the ethnic and religious shortcoming for looking for the individual and factional advantage, we have to fabricate connects over the various partitions and ingrain confidence in the solidarity and indissoluble nature of one Nigeria.”

He recognized the APC governors’ commitments to the political, financial, social and social improvement of Nigeria, including that commercial development and aggressiveness of countries relied upon the agreeable joint effort of the considerable number of levels of government, especially in an administrative set-up like our own.

“I approach the state governments to be a solid mainstay of help for our enemy of defilement plan, just as proceeded with help for our projects of social security, nourishing school system and different arrangements outfitted towards human capital advancement,” he said. Going ahead, we should all work towards structure a socially durable society where the assets of the nation work for all. We will keep on applying extensive holdings so that no segment of the country or fragment of the populace endures social avoidance.”

In the interim, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the introduction of an administration grant to President Muhammadu Buhari by governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is underwriting of disappointment.

The gathering in an announcement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, depicted the honor as the stature of double-dealing, taking note of what it is another fizzled picture washing exertion by the Presidency. It expressed that the Presidency and the decision party have occupied with unlimited festivals in the post of the presidential estate, while Nigerians are left at the benevolent actions of crooks, hijackers, and guerillas in their homes and working environments.

“It is offensive that Mr. President’s handlers could invoke such outrageous whitewashing task to brag on Nigerians at once they (Nigerians) are incredibly harming over the pervasive financial hardship, hunger, dissatisfactions, disappointments, and humongous debasement, that have turned into the sign of the Buhari organization,” the announcement included.

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Leader of Alaigbo Development Foundation (ADF), Prof Uzodinma Nwala has approached the North, Southwest, and South to avoid the 2023 administration.

As indicated by him, it was the turn of the South East since the various areas have proceeded to lead the nation.

Nwala noticed that the zoning recipe which was battled for to guarantee that each locale involved the workplace of the President in the nation have been failed.

“I was in the 1993/94 established gathering, the first occasion when that zoning was raised. I was one of those that battled for it,” he told Sun.

“The thought was to move the administration round among the six geo-political zones – North and South rotation.

“The administration goes to one zone in the North and next time to another region in the South until it goes round among the six political zones, yet you can see that they have wrecked it.

“The North should not be requesting administration in 2023, as the administration ought to go toward the South. In the South, the Southwest ought not to look towards that course as Obasanjo has gone ahead. Similarly, the South-south, as Jonathan has gone ahead.

“It is the turn of the Southeast. Be that as it may, the issue is that on the off chance that we are not joined to choose who ought to speak to us, you discover that they will from long range pick a possibility for us.

“I’m content with what occurred in the last decision, the Igbo cast a ballot as one individual, as they voted in favor of Atiku and Obi. On the off chance that we continue this, when 2023 comes, we ought to have the option to figure out will’s identity there for us.

“As things stand now, at the established gathering, we had the option to fashion a national partnership that will make the authority accept the secondary lounge as a minority.

“As things are currently, if there is no gear and the field is left open, there will be an example of casting a ballot – more significant part of Southwest, dominant element in the South-South, more substantial role in Igbo land, the lion’s share in Southern Kaduna, the lion’s share in the Middle Belt, the Talakawas in the North every one of them will cast a ballot as one individual.

“What is significant for us as Igbo is to attempt and hold ourselves together as a people; President or no president, let us keep ourselves as one individual, battle for our interior self-sufficiency. On the off chance that we do that they will search for us. By right and if things are done accurately, 2023 must be the turn of the Igbo.

“We should ensure that their operators, who they have engaged and made rich and who are tricking themselves playing a wide range of malicious legislative issues; we should ensure that there is the wrong spot for them as individuals speaking to us.”

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Abdulrahman Dambazau, the Minister of Interior, has clarified why the Federal Government is putting resources into the structure of detainment facilities the nation over.

Dambazau talked at the charging of individual ventures and recently obtained vehicles at the Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS) base camp in Abuja on Friday.

As indicated by him, the vast majority of the current detainment facilities in the nation were over a century and should have been supplanted.

“We are building jails, yet we are not expanding the number of penitentiaries,” he said.

“Undoubtedly, we are diminishing it. The greater part of our detainment facilities is more than ancient. What we are doing is to construct new ones that fulfill the worldwide guideline.”

He said the new bearing of the present organization was to concentrate on the people engaged with criminal acts and not merely the wrongdoing, saying it was the best way to change guilty parties.

We have moved concentration from the wrongdoing to the hoodlums. We are not looking for retribution for the way that the guilty party is human and can transform,” he said.

He asked the NPS to take significant consideration of the vehicles and different tasks executed by the legislature.

Dambazau further expressed that there would be more enhancements in the Service when the Nigerian Prisons and Correctional Service bill is at long last complemented to by President Muhammadu Buhari.

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Naira Marley’s questionable explanation on Internet misrepresentation has started off a ton of discussion [Instagram/NairaMarley] The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has captured Nigerian performer, Naira Marley, genuine name Afeez Fashola.

The quick rising vocalist is right now being addressed at the EFFC office in Lagos.

In spite of the fact that the purpose for his capture is yet to be made open, it may be regarding his announcements via web-based networking media which lauds web fraudsters, prominently called Yahoo young men.

The EFCC representative couldn’t be achieved right off the bat Friday, however a top source at the organization affirmed the capture to GCFRNG.

Maybe incidentally, Naira Marley discharged the official video of his hit track, ‘Am I A Yahoo Boy’ including Zlatan on Thursday

Naira Marley amid an ongoing Instagram live session, asked Nigerians to petition God for web fraudsters (Yahoo young men) saying they are the reason cash courses to the basic man.

He stated: “All you folks, all the cash in your pockets, all the cash you spend, you believe the administration is influencing the cash to go round?”

The video has since blended responses from Nigerians who portrayed Marley as a disfavor and awful guide to youthful Nigerians.
Nonetheless, a couple of Nigerians upheld Marley, remaining that Yahoo young men were the reason a few Nigerians can eat and endure.

The artist is well known for his 2017 hit tune titled ‘It’s an objective.’


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Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has told the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to stop wasting its time and resources in its bid to nail him at all cost, because it would fail.

Saraki said the current moves by the anti-graft agency would only end in futility. He noted that he had been investigated as Kwara State governor without blemish.

This was contained in a statement issued and signed by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to theSenate President, Yusuph Olaniyonu.

In the statement, which was in reaction to a statement credited to the EFCC regarding Saraki’s tenure as governor of Kwara State, the Senate President said he was not bordered by all the moves of the EFCC, but urged the commission to be more professional and transparent in its conduct.

The statement read in part: “We have noted a statement issued by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in reaction to a news story published by a national newspaper, based on the letter written by the commission to the Kwara State Government in which it demanded for all details of salaries, allowances, estacode or any other entitlement enjoyed by Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, the President of the Senate, during his tenure as governor of Kwara State, between 2003 and 2011.

“While we have kept quiet over the series of letters sent to various institutions where Dr. Saraki had served or is serving in which the commission stated that it is conducting various investigations, we are compelled to make our positions known on the less-than-noble and patriotic objectives behind these investigations because we believe it is a mere witch-hunt exercise aimed at settling scores, laced with malicious and partisan motives.

“While we do not wish to obstruct the EFCC in the performance of its tasks, we reiterate our position that the commission should be professional, ethical, transparent and consistent. It cannot be deemed professional when the agency is not consistent in the application of its rules and the laws to all cases and individuals. The recent onslaught against the Senate President by the anti-graft agency is definitely a case of different laws for different folks.”

In the same vein, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has accused the Federal Government of using EFCC to witch-hunt Saraki. The PDP, in a statement by its national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, yesterday, said the “fresh seige” against Saraki was part of an alleged clampdown on opposition figures.

The party noted that it was obvious that the All Progressive Congress (APC) lead administration was panicky over the evidence it intends to present against the ruling party and President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.

The statement read in part: “The PDP alerts that the fresh siege against Senator Saraki is part of the larger plot for a renewed clampdown on key opposition figures and perceived political opponents of the APC administration, particularly to frustrate the determination to retrieve our stolen presidential mandate at the tribunal.

“The party says nothing else can explain the Federal Government’s obnoxious and distasteful resort to intimidation and evidence-fishing, just to nail Senator Saraki at all costs, even when nothing incriminating has been found in his stewardship as Governor of Kwara state, after several investigations.”

However, the EFCC, in a statement by its acting spokesman, Tony Orilade, said it was investigating Saraki’s earnings as Kwara State governor as well as his financial stewardship in the Senate.

Faulting the claim of the Senate President that it was after him for ulterior reasons and that he is a victim of persecution, the anti graft body said it took exception to comments that cast a slur on its legitimate assignment.

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President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, suspended the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting to enable Muslim members of the cabinet break their fast.

The meeting, which started few minutes after 11:00am, had one break at 3.30pm, during which only three memoranda had been deliberated upon, out of 24 slated for consideration.

The meeting resumed at 4:00pm but deliberations lasted until 6.45pm; just in time for Muslims to break their fast.

According to the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, the meeting resumed deliberations after the religious obligations at about 7.15pm.

The meeting lasted into the night and might likely continue this morning.

Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, who presided over last week’s FEC meeting, which held last Thursday, also suspended the meeting to receive a delegation from the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights.

That meeting had earlier been moved from Wednesday to Thursday, because of the Workers’ Day celebration on May 1.

Even though it was earlier scheduled to commence at 11:00am, Osinbajo’s absence, who was out of Abuja for an undisclosed engagement that day, caused it to be rescheduled for 4:00pm. The vice president arrived at about 4.30pm to preside over the meeting. But, after about three and half hours of deliberations, he suspended the meeting at 7.50pm to receive the group. The meeting ended at some minutes to 10:00pm.

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/ramadan-buhari-suspends-fec-to-break-fast/

Associate Inspector-General of Police accountable for Zone II, involving Oyo, Osun and Ondo States, Mr. Leye Oyebade, yesterday, said the police have the specialized help to catch hijackers, looters and different hoodlums working on the Ibadan-Ilesha-Akure street, and different pieces of the zone.

He gave the confirmation amid his acclimation voyage through Oyo State Police Command, amid which he was gotten by the chief of police in the state, Mr. Shina Olukolu, conventional rulers, religious pioneers, ranchers, individuals from Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association and individuals from Police Community Relation Committee (PCRC) at Eleyele, Ibadan.

Ruffians had as of late stole an Ibadan-based attorney, Mr. Musibau Adetunmbi, at Iwaraja, Osun State, along the Ilesha-Akure Road, and a teacher of orthopedic medical procedure and traumatology, Adeyinka Adegbehingbe, of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, and discharged them in the wake of gathering buy-off.

Likewise, various burglary cases have been accounted for out and about, particularly among Ilesha and Owena, regardless of the substantial nearness of security staff at some key focuses on the roadway.

Oyebade approached occupants of different networks in the three states to give helpful data to the police on suspicious exercises in their networks. He said tenable data would assist the police with taking proactive advances and avert wrongdoing, rather than being receptive.

At the point when columnists asked Oyebade to remark on the measures he was setting up to battle unremitting seizing and burglary on Ibadan-Ife-Ilesha-Akure street, he stated: “On the off chance that one occurrence occurred, you don’t utilize the word relentless to state it is currently a fear zone.

I won’t take that accommodation. We have gone on that street. Wrongdoing is dynamic and we need to up our amusements. We have progressively specialized help and we have increasingly specialized stages to capture these hoodlums that have been irritating us.


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The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal will Wednesday, May 8, formally commence hearing in the petitions filed by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, his party, the PDP and three other political parties and their presidential candidates against the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Atiku, PDP and the others, in their various petitions, are seeking the nullification of Buhari’s victory at the February 23 presidential poll on allegations of widespread rigging, violations of the Electoral Act, suppression of voters, violence amongst other electoral malpractices.

The others include: the Hope Democratic Party (HDP) and its presidential candidate, Chief Ambrose Owuru; Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM) and its presidential candidate, Pastor Aminchi Habu and the Coalition for Change (C4C) and its presidential candidate, Jeff Ojinka.

Atiku, in his petition, specifically asked the tribunal to disqualify Buhari as winner of the February 23 presidential election, on the grounds that he (Buhari) did not possess the requisite academic qualification to contest for the office of President.

The petition, which is premised on five grounds, alleged that Buhari lied about his academic qualification as well as schools attended in his form 001 submitted to INEC for purpose of contesting the 2019 presidential election.
Atiku and PDP had filed their petition against the outcome of the election at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) in Abuja, on March 18, 2019.

While the HDP and Owuru’s petition marked CA/EPT/PRE/001/2019, was filed March 7, the petition of the C4C along with its presidential candidate and that of the PDM and its presidential candidate were file same day, March 19, 2019.

However, a statement by the Media Officer of the Court of Appeal, Saadatu Musa Kachalla, on Tuesday, said that the “Presidential Election Petition Tribunal Panel will begin its inaugural session on Wednesday, 8th May 2019 at the Abuja Division courtroom. Time 9.00am”.

While Atiku and the PDP, in grounds 1-3 of their petition, specifically attacked the conduct of the February 23, presidential election conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), they asked the tribunal on grounds 3-5 to disqualify Buhari on the grounds that he was not qualified to have contested the election in the first place and as such all votes accredited to him by INEC should be declared as wasted votes.

Owuru, Habu and Ojinka, in their separate petitions, however, prayed the tribunal to nullify the election of Buhari on grounds of alleged massive rigging of the February 23 presidential election as well as substantial non compliance with provisions of the law by the electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)


https://dailypost.ng/2019/05/08/presidential-election-tribunal-commences-hearing-atikus-petitions-buhari-apc/amp/

Governor Rochas Receives 3 Licenses From NUC For New Universities Established in Imo State

The Governor of Imo state, His Excellency, Governor Rochas Okorocha and Senator-elect in the just concluded 2019 elections, has received three Licenses from the National University Commision-NUC for three universities which he established in the state.

This was made known to newsmen through his media aide in the early hours of today. He confirmed that the licences for the universities were a certification of it’s authorised operation and a legal confirmation of its distinctive standards.

The National University Commision handed Governor Rochas the licence, for Imo state University of Medical Science in Gboko, Imo state University of Creative Technology located at Umuma Isiaku and the Imo state University of Science and Technology. According to reports this was in view of the governor’s interest in improving education and academic standards in Imo state.
It could be recalled that two weeks ago Okorocha was also at NUC to collect the license for Imo state University of Agriculture and environmental sciences, in Agoh/Ngor. He stressed on the prolific opportunities the licenced certificate will create in Agoh/Ngor community and the Imo state.

It could be recalled that two weeks ago Okorocha was also at NUC to collect the license for Imo state University of Agriculture and environmental sciences, in Agoh/Ngor. He stressed on the prolific opportunities the licenced certificate will create in Agoh/Ngor community and the Imo state.

Governor Rochas Okorocha has remained committed to a government that is creating easy paths and leverage burdens for successive governments, especially in areas of education, human capital development and structural development in Imo state

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Legal fire works will commence, today, at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, where four petitioners, including the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, seek to invalidate President Muhammadu Buhari’s election.

The tribunal has already issued hearing notices to all parties with respect to the pre- hearing session.

The petitioners, in separate petitions lodged at the tribunal, are challenging the Independent National Electoral Commission’s declaration of Buhari as the legitimate winner of the February 23 presidential election.

Aside the PDP and its candidate’s petition, marked CA/PEPC/002/2019, which was filed on March 18, other petitioners include the presidential candidate of Hope Democratic Party, (HDP), Chief Ambrose Owuru, who got 1,663 in the election, presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Movement (PDM), Pastor Aminchi Habu and the petition with suit No. CA/PEPC/003/2019, filed by the Coalition For Change, and its presidential candidate, Geff Chizee Ojinka.

While the HDP, in its CA/PEPC/001/2019 petition is seeking a fresh election, on the basis that his party’s logo was not included in the ballot paper, the PDM, on its part, is contending that Buhari’s re-election was riddled with substantial non-compliance with mandatory statutory provisions.

It was the position of the petitioners in their various petitions that the irregularity substantially affected the election, “such that the first respondent was not entitled to be returned as the winner of the presidential election”.

On February 27, INEC declared Buhari winner with 15,191,847 votes but, almost immediately, Atiku rejected the results and vowed to upturn it in court.

Specifically, in their joint petition, Atiku and his party, insisted the data they secured from INEC’s server revealed that they clearly defeated Buhari with over 1.6 million votes.

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The Federal Government has said that street crashes represent more passings and handicaps among the worldwide populace, especially drivers and suburbanites.

It said that the nation loses between 3 to 5 percent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP), every year, because of suffers from street crashes thinking about a large number of passings and cost of restoration of unfortunate casualties.

Pastor of State for Health, Dr. Osagie Ehinire, talked at an occasion to check the worldwide street wellbeing week, in Abuja yesterday.

He said that relentless increment of street crashes influence monetary existence of the nation, as the majority of the exploited people are beneath 45 years of age, who are, maybe, on open or private task.

“The larger part of them are the providers of the families and the ultimate commercial work power. Walkers and youngsters are the most defenseless as they comprise around 50 percent of the people in question”.

He, in this way, tested authorities of the Federal Road Safety Corp (FRSC) and another street the board authorities to be alive to their obligations and guarantee that drivers are legitimately instructed and guided on most ideal approaches to deal with the roads.

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Senior statesman, Prince Bob Njemaneze, has approached the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to announce Jones Onyeriri and Senator Benjamin Uwajumogu as victors of Imo West (Orlu) and Imo North (Okigwe) senatorial decisions.

The races led on February 28 into the two senatorial seats in the state have been marred in contention as INEC is yet to report the genuine victors of the surveys.

He said Governor Rochas Okorocha, a competitor in the Imo west (Orlu) senatorial race, who he asserted had constrained the Returning Officer, Prof. Honest Ibeabuchi, to pronounce him champ of the senatorial decision ought to be indicted for an appointive offense.

Njemanze, who tended to reporters in Owerri, said Imo must not be duped in having its full portrayal at the Senate.

“Among the senatorial challenges, a fascinating one is IMO West (Orlu zone), where INEC must face guard what they truly speak to or what they have made us accept. The commission said it could nor be impacted by satisfaction, pressure by urgent lawmakers nor be cowed into tolerating a misnomer in a discretionary procedure.”

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