The chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Oyo State, Alhaji Kunmi Mustapha, has assured that Governor Seyi Makinde would the pre-election arrangement he had with the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Zenith Labour Party, ZLP and Social Democratic Party, SDP.

GISTOK recalls that the governorship candidates of the ADC, ZLP and SDP stepped down and adopted Makinde of the PDP during the just concluded 2019 election. This newspaper understands that there have been fears over whether or not Makinde would fulfill the promises made to the parties.

In the sharing formula, OYO INSIGHT, the ADC and ZLP will take 30 and 15 per cent respectively while the SDP will be given 5 per cent. Mustapha, who spoke on Thursday while briefing newsmen in Ibadan, disclosed that all stakeholders were meeting regularly on how best to handle the matter.

The Iseyin-born  politician explained that there was no cause for alarm as the party would keep to its promise. This is just as he vowed to take over the five states in the South West geopolitical zone in future elections. He said efforts were on to ensure massive supports of the electorates, especially in Oyo and Osun States before the next elections.

“Presently, we are targeting Osun and Ondo states and we are working tirelessly to capture these states,” he said. The chairman promised that the excellent performance of the PDP-led government in Oyo State would enhance its chances in future elections.

On the inauguration of the ninth State Assembly where PDP had 26 out of 32 members, Mustapha urged the lawmakers especially PDP members to unite and stand firm with Governor Seyi Makinde. He admonished them to resist any temptation of working against the interest of the ruling party in the state.

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Maritime workers have threatened to embark on strike within two weeks if the Federal Government fails to make international oil companies pay government-appointed stevedoring contractors monies owed them. Mr Adbul-Waheed Adeyanju, the President General, Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN), issued the two-week ultimatum in a statement in Lagos on Thursday.

Adeyanju particularly urged the permanent secretary in the Federal Ministry of Transport to look into the issue so that dockworkers could be paid their salaries and wages. He said that the failure to pay government-appointed stevedoring contractors for jobs done had made it impossible for their workers to be paid salaries, a situation which had led to “the untimely death of members’’.

According to him, failure to effect payment to the contractors will make members of the union to withdraw their services in all the seaports. “Dear stakeholders, we want to use this medium to intimate you and the Federal Government of the non-payment of the stevedoring wages to dockworkers by the International Oil Companies (IOCs) operating in Nigeria.

“On 1st June, 2018, the Nigerian Port Authority (NPA) appointed stevedoring contractors to provide stevedoring services at various off-shore jetties and on-shore locations to the international oil companies and other operators.  “It will be necessary to inform you that NPA had held several meetings with these operators to grant access to the government-appointed stevedoring contractors, process their invoices, and effect payment, but unfortunately, the operators have refused to comply with NPA’s directive after one year that the stevedoring contractors were appointed.

“We commend the managing director and management of NPA for the efforts they have made to compel the IOCs to engage the services of appointed stevedores and registered dockworkers in their stevedoring operations. “A stakeholders’ meeting was held on Feb. 28, 2018 organised by NPA in Lagos to sensitise IOCs, jetty owners, and terminal owners,” Adeyanju said.

According to him, the NPA management made it clear that in line with Section 27 OF NIMASA Act, 2007 only government-appointed stevedores and registered dockworkers are empowered by law to solely handle, discharge and embark on loading operations at the ports, jetties and Oil platforms. Adeyanju wondered why the contractors refused to cooperate with the newly-appointed stevedoring contractors since the modus operandi remains the same?.

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A civil society coalition, Coalition for Revolution, on Thursday called on the Federal Government to review the privatisation of the power sector, in view of what it called the failures of the operators. The Coordinator, Prince Rilwan Ojora, made the call while speaking with newsmen in Lagos. He said that power supply had worsened since the sector was privatised in 2013, as new owners of power assets had not added any value to the sector.

Ojora said that the various power distribution companies (Discos) and generating companies (GENCOS) were billing consumers without delivering service. He said it was high time the government stopped listening to excuses of private power companies for not delivering service, calling for the revocation of their licences and ”re-nationalisation” of the sector . “Privatisation of the power sector to suit the whims of vicious Discos and Gencos has no doubt complicated power problems.

“And these problems within the past few years have assumed ridiculous turn of embarrassing magnitude. “Far more than ever, the distribution companies have not only failed to provide electricity, they have taken it as a priority to harass Nigerians with crazy and estimated bills. “Most houses today are without electricity meters; and this is a conscious attempt to bill consumers for product not consumed.

“It is no wonder you find as common phenomenon a situation where an individual who pays N5,000 as monthly rent receives an electricity bill of N20,000, even when he barely enjoys the service of electricity.” Ojora said that the country had not really added more megawatts since the power firms took over from PHCN, the government-owner firm. “So, we are saying enough is enough. This should not continue. We are demanding the reversal of the privatisation of the sector as Discos and Gencos have failed Nigerians,” he said.

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The Debt Management Office (DMO) says the results of the second Sovereign Green Bond demonstrates greater commitment from the public towards protecting the environment. The organisation said this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, declaring the results of the auction which opened on June 3 as over subscribed.

According to the statement, total value of subscriptions received was N32.93 billion, representing 220 per cent of the N15 billion offered. It said that the issuance revealed increased knowledge and awareness of green bonds by subscribers. “Similarly, the number of subscribers doubled when compared to the figure for the first Sovereign Green Bond issued in December 2017.

“Retail investors were not left out, as the number of individuals who subscribed for the second Sovereign Green Bond more than doubled. “The amount of subscriptions grew by almost 201 per cent with the share of total subscriptions rising to 1.43 per cent compared to 0.67 per cent for the 2017 Sovereign Green Bond.” It said that the stronger participation of retail investors showed that financial inclusion and deepening of the domestic financial market were being achieved.

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Kwara Governor Abdulraman Abdulrazaq has assured the people of the state of his administration’s commitment to create enabling environment for businesses to thrive in the state. The governor gave the assurance in a lease signed by Rafiu Ajakaye, his Chief Press Secretary (CPS) in Ilorin on Thursday.

Ajakayeb said that Abdulrazaq said this when he paid unscheduled visit to Olam Grains and Cashew Processing Factory at Ogbondoroko, Asa Local Government Area of the state.

Abdulrazaq lauded the economic impact the factory offerred the people of the state and Nigeria at large, especially in job opportunity to a minimum of 1,500 people. While reacting to the complaints of the Association of Cashew Farmers and dealers, the governor promised to invite them for interface at an appropriate time toward addressing their problems.

Earlier, the Plant Manager, Olam Cashew Processing factory, Mr Sajjad Hussein stated that there were five stages involved in cashew processing adding that it would take up to eight days before the end product is realized. The governor used the occasion to inaugurate water project provided by the company for Ogbondoroko community as part of its corporate social responsibility programme.

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The Governor addressed journalists in Kaduna yesterday soon after the Northern State Governors Forum, NSGF, meeting.

He clarified that his organization did not cause any obligation through the non-installment of compensations because of specialists since he accepted the office.

Senator Bello said what stays extraordinary as laborers’ pay rates was brought about by the organization that went before his, which he has acquired.

He said when he went ahead wide, he attempted to expel apparition laborers and in the wake of doing that, he has had the option to pay every one of the pay rates because of specialists amid his organization, saying what is remaining is what was owed laborers amid the past organization.

Senator Bello expressed that the past organization connected for N80.5 billion bailout from the Federal Government and that President Muhammadu Buhari endorsed N50. 8 billion out of the cash yet that because of his reasonability, he chose to pull back just N20 billion.

He said the usage of the N20 billion was distributed in national dailies, including how it was imparted to the neighborhood governments.

The Governor said he is hoping to draw down the remaining N30.8 billion to clear the unfulfilled obligations.

“What is owed by the past organization is actually what is owed now. Under my supervision, I m not owing to a solitary feast but rather acquired risk which Mr. President has affirmed. When we draw that N3.8 billion, we will clear all the unpaid debts,” he expressed

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Streams State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has sacked his Commissioner of Power, Shedrach Chukwu.The senator guided the sacked magistrate to present all administration records and property in his ownership to the Permanent Secretary in the service.

This was contained in an announcement by the senator’s Special Assistant on Electronic Media, Simeon Nwakaudu.

On Sunday, the senator restored 12 chamber executives before he prior suspended. Their review was with quick impact.

The senator charged the reviewed board directors to steadily serve their kin and disregard all types of languid conduct in administration. He accused the reviewed chamber administrators of handling security challenges in their separate nearby government territories and cautioned that any executive who keeps on acting in rupture of surviving laws would be demonstrated the exit plan.

The reviewed Council Chairmen incorporate Okrika, Emohua, Abua/Odual, Degema, Khana, Gokana, Ahoada East, Ikwerre, Eleme, Andoni, Omuma and Ogu/Bolo Local Government Areas.

The review of the influenced neighborhood government executives who were suspended on April 18, was contained in a Government House Press discharge marked by Simeon Nwakaudu, the Special Assistant to Governor Wike on Electronic Media.

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The Senator speaking to Kaduna Central, Senator Shehu Sani, has expressed that the absence of characterized protected job for customary rulers in the nation has made them defenseless against all habits of extortion and disparagement.

Following the ongoing choice by the Kano state government to diminish the power and impact of the Emir of Kano, Mallam Sanisu Lamido Sanusi and furthermore make other emirate chambers in the state, Sani censured in solid terms the activity of the Kano state government in disparaging the customary ruler for political reasons.

Sani stated, “The nonattendance of plainly characterized jobs in the constitution makes customary rulers helpless against the maltreatment of intensity, casualties of coercion and pawns and punching packs in the political chess round of their states.

“Amid races, they are compelled to crusade for the Governors of their states and the decision parties in their particular countries or hazard being deposed. Customary rulers are relied upon to assume real jobs in security matters with no security cast a ballot other than presents tossed at them by the Governors of their states.

“A customary ruler who needs to endure must be moronically faithful, stupid and humiliatingly subservient and one that must dependably separate himself from the political enemies of the Governor in office
Customary rulers completing a governors offering can scarcely be blamed for helping ruffians or inducing bury ethnic viciousness regardless of whether it is actual. State Governors routinely makes political emirates and chiefdoms to settle scores or to remunerate dedication or to fortify their capacity base or with the end goal of partition and principle.

“The customary rulers are likewise not free of fault when the vast majority of them have deteriorated and popularized the establishment by administering current titles to individuals in government and those that can pay.

“They make and deal clever titles with no chronicled premise, roots and precursor and to individuals significantly underserving: practically all governors march one or different phony customary claims were given to them while in office.


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Senator Kabiru Gaya (APC Kano South), says President of the Senate, Speaker of the House of Representatives and their deputies in the ninth National Assembly, will be elected through secret ballot.

Gaya said this in a chat newsmen on Thursday, in reaction to calls for the open ballot system.

He said a member in the Senate could move a motion for the amendment of the existing rule before the expiration of the life of the present Assembly and that the procedure must follow due process.

Gaya said, “I am a member of the National Assembly. And we were able to do these rules together. We cannot change it now unless a member of the Senate moves for that change.

If he moves for the change and somebody seconds it, the motion will be debated and the same thing goes for the House of Representatives.

“If there is discrepancy between the Senate and the House, we will set up a Conference Committee. And they will bring it to us to find a date to sit down and pass it. Can you do that in one month?”

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A gathering under the aegis of Coalition of Imo Rebuilders has said that the urgent offered by some political components in the state to leave the swearing in of the Imo State representative to choose, Hon. Emeka Ihedioha would be commensurate to war against Imo individuals.

An announcement by the National President of the gathering, Goodwill Onwughara on Thursday said it was absurd for a gathering of vanquished government officials to approach the court for the sole motivation behind abandoning the swearing in of Hon Ihedioha as the new CEO of the state on May 29, 2019.

The announcement read: “The consideration of Coalition of Imo Rebuilders has been attracted to the strange and edginess of some deceitful components in Imo state to abandon the intrinsically booked May 29, 2019 introduction.
It is both funny and a juvenile tendency that a gathering of crushed people in the state moved toward an official courtroom to stop the Wednesday, May 29 swearing-in of the Imo representative choose, His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, over unimportant and unconfirmed cases – nay unjustifiable supplications.”

It further expressed that: “This is only an adversely coordinated endeavor to get political power through indirect access. This is so on the grounds that both the constitution and the discretionary demonstration arrangements are sure about post-race matters. The books obviously stipulate that the principal port of call of all post-race matters is the council and not the court.”

It is very terrible that while the mind greater part of Imolites is celebrating over a serene governorship race that was broadly and by and large declared free, reasonable and tenable by all norms, a microscopic and horribly immaterial minority is placing stops up in the wheel of for a quiet handover and introduction procedures.

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The Senate, on Thursday, dismissed a bill proposing the foundation of the Maritime University of Nigeria, Lokoja in Kogi.

The dismissal pursued the introduction of the bill by the support, Sen. Isaac Alfa (PDP-Kogi).

The bill, which was recorded for second perusing, was dismissed by the administrators through voice vote.

While making their commitments, the officials had instructed the support concerning the bill to pull back it following a few reasons including the requirement for more work to be finished.

Alfa, be that as it may, would not pull back the bill, saying he had completed a ton of work on it.

He encouraged the officials not to join geological area and different notions to the bill.

Sen Barau Jibrin (Kano North) noticed that there was another government college in Lokoja while recommending that the proposed oceanic college ought to be sited in another riverine network of a similar state.

Sen. Olusola Adeyeye (APC-Osun), said there was no requirement for the college, including that colleges the nation over were ineffectively financed.

“You make colleges and get under subsidizing. I will keep on restricting each new college until old ones are supported.

“Give the colleges access the sea territories make oceanic resources. We ought not to set out on 419 for our youngsters until old ones are financed,” Adeyeye said.

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Okija people group in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State has prohibited exercises of impostors in the region.

The people group affirmed that impostors had transformed into cliques, which assaulted individuals without risk of punishment.

Tending to columnists yesterday at his castle, the conventional leader of the network, Igwe Emeka Okezie, said the town would never again endure the exercises of impostors in the city.

He stated, “The Okija people group holds impostors celebrations in most extreme adoration, yet won’t overlook it in the current situation.

“Generally, impostors show up in the general population at a particular time of the year and assume important jobs in the festival of the social celebration. Be that as it may, today, the dread of impostors has turned into an issue in Okija as impostors have swung themselves to fear.
The ruler said before; impostors were viewed as the methods for keeping up harmony and request and were utilized as law requirement specialists.

He noticed that the whole town would turn out for the function of the bright impostors with amusement through move and display of additional human accomplishments.

He included that impostors would approach certain people and uproariously uncover any unfortunate propensities, wrongdoing or lousy conduct of that individual as individuals would dependably take revisions from the exposures.

Okezie included that the impostors were convincing in staying aware of the common standards and qualities in the network.

“Today in Okija, impostors have swung themselves to fear at commercial centers, streets, parks and other open places in the town,” he said.

Okezie expressed that Okija had, subsequently, prohibited impostors in the network until further notice.

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The Kogi part of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has encouraged the Federal Government to discharge the N30.8 billion equalization of bailout store to the state government to empower it to settle pay rates, annuities and tip.

Dr. John Ibenu, it is executive, decided on Tuesday in Lokoja, in discourse to acknowledge his re-appointment to lead the body.

“I need to make an uncommon intrigue to President Muhammadu Buhari to discharge the exceptional equalization of N30.8 billion bailout reserve to empower the administration to meet its money related commitments to laborers and retired people.

“The installment will mitigate the enduring of specialists and retired people and shore up monetary exercises in the state,” he said.

He, in any case, expelled claims that he was “supporting and eating with the state government notwithstanding her failure to pay laborers’ pay rates and annuities.”

“God is my observer; I have duped or mistreated nobody. We have attempted our best, and are still, small voice is clear.

“The legislature can likewise shoulder observer that we have behaved as a competent otherworldly association.

“We don’t promise to be immaculate. However, we endeavor to do our best to keep a decent inner voice,” Iben said.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the Chairman from there on drove CAN help individuals into a petition session in which they asked God to mend, help and show kindness toward Kogi, raising the state’s logo, banner, and decoration as the purpose of contact.

In his comments, Gov. Yahaya Bello, who was spoken to by the Secretary to the State Government, Dr. Folashade Ayoade, said that the administration was attempting her best to clear back payments of pay rates of the state’s certifiable specialists.

Bello noticed that N80 billion was at first connected for, from the bailout finance. However, the central government, in the long run, affirmed that just 50.8 billion.

“Out of the N50.8 billion affirmed, just N20 billion has been discharged, leaving an exceptional equalization of N30.8 billion.

“The N20 billion was prudently used to pay rates and benefits of specialists; N10 billion for state laborers and the other N10 billion for nearby government laborers.

“For clearness, I need to express that Kogi government is owing between four to five months compensation unpaid debts of certified laborers, and not 30 months, as detailed in certain segments of the media,” he said.

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Femi Fani-Kayode, former Aviation Minister, has reacted to comment by presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, that Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, is like Afenifere and Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo socio-cultural groups and thus should not be criminalised.

Shehu also defended the meeting between the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu and the leadership of the Miyetti Allah.

“It is a mistake to say the Nigerian government is talking to bandits”, he said.

The Miyetti Allah group is like Ohanaeze and Afenifere. It is a socio-cultural group. There are criminals within the Yoruba race and you cannot say because of that, Afenifere is a group of criminals.” Reacting, Fani-Kayode lambasted Shehu for the comparison.

“No they are not. They are an association of butchers of cows and men. They are the purveyors of violence, the custodians of falsehood and the repositories of evil. They are as perfidious as they are dangerous!

“They are an umbrella organisation of dark, callous, bloodthirsty and merciless men that seek to legitimise, shield and protect the Fulani herdsmen, the fourth most deadly terrorist organisation in the world.

“Comparing them to Afenifere or Ohaneze is like comparing the Church of Satan and the Cosa Nostra to the Vatican and the Anglican Communion”.

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An Ikeja high court on Tuesday sentenced a 36-year-old woman, Stella Gilbert, to death for stabbing her neighbor, Mrs. Stella Godwin, to death during a fight at their residence in Ajegunle, Lagos.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the fight was over a bench in the premises of their single room apartments also known as ‘face’me-I-face you’. The fight was caused by an argument over who should be using the bench belonging to their former neighbor.
Justice Raliatu Adebiyi sentenced Gilbert after dismissing her claim of self-defense. The judge held that the prosecution proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt.

“The defendant, in this case, used a knife on the deceased; by any standard, a knife is a lethal weapon.
“The evidence of PW2 (Prosecution Witness 2), the cousin of PW1 (the deceased’s husband), and that of PW3, the female police officer, was that the deceased was stabbed on the chest.

“The coroner’s report tendered in evidence by PW4 confirmed that the deceased was stabbed on the chest. “The chest is where the heart is; the defendant, by stabbing the deceased on the chest, a very fragile part of the body, clearly intended to cause the most harm to her.

“The death of the deceased occurred as a result of a grievous injury caused by the defendant. The defendant is culpable of the offense of murder,” she said.

The judge remarked that a lot of cases in courts were caused by animosity and violence due to individuals living in close proximity in the metropolis. She said that the situation called for improvement in social housing in Lagos State. She said: “From the evidence, the fight took place in a room; though no evidence was given about the size of the room, it could not have been a very large room.

“The evidence was that the deceased and the defendant lived in a house consisting of rooms occupied by families popularly called ‘face-me-I-face-you’.


“It is worrisome that the level of violence, unnecessary animosity and death, which occur among our citizens as a result of living together in close proximity without sufficient personal space and boundaries, remain unabated..

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Residents of Dutse Alhaji in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja have raised the alarm over the influx of beggars in the area.

As the Ramadan fasting entered its second day, some beggars on Tuesday flooded Dutse Alhaji area of the Federal Capital Territory, begging for alms.

Most of them, Muslim faithful, could be seen with their little children begging for money from motorists and passers-by.

Some residents of the area, who spoke to GISTOK on Tuesday, decried the situation, suggesting that it could be because of the Ramadan season.

Baba Owoseni, a businessman and resident of the area, told our correspondent that the current economic situation in the country has made even people who should ordinarily be working become beggars.

He said, “Well, this is the situation we find ourselves. What can we do? We can’t chase them away. They have the freedom to move to any part of the country. Why we are bothers but these people are making the streets of Abuja look dirty. It is a national embarrassment to see beggars lined up like this begging.

It practically shows a failed government. I think the government should take note of this.”

Some others cried out that these beggars were becoming a great security threat to the area as they do not know where they are from and who they are. And judging from the current security situation in the country they may turn out to be harmful.

One Mrs. Mary Chukwuma said, ”We don’t know these people or where they are even coming from. This is a security threat to our environment.

Read more: https://gistok.ng/ramadan-residents-cry-out-as-beggars-take-over-abuja-community/

The management of the Nigerian Prisons Service(NPS) has dismissed a prison officer for trafficking illicit drugs in the prison yard.

The Public Relations Officer of the Service, Mr Francis Enorbore, confirmed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja.

Enorbore named the affected officer as Prison Assistant 1, Umar Adamu, NAN reports.

He said that the Controller General of Prisons, (CGP) Mr Ja’afaru Ahmed, had approved the recommendations of the Zone ‘C’ disciplinary committee for the officer’s dismissal.
The statement read, “This followed the recommendation of the Zonal Disciplinary Committee that found the officer guilty of secreting illicit items such as Indian hemp (cannabis) and other intoxicants into the prison for inmates.



The statement read, “This followed the recommendation of the Zonal Disciplinary Committee that found the officer guilty of secreting illicit items such as Indian hemp (cannabis) and other intoxicants into the prison for inmates.

“This is part of a concerted effort by the administration to continue to maintain discipline and ensure that mal-adjusted inmates in Prison custody are only handled by those with the required rectitude to do so.’’

Read more: https://gistok.ng/nigeria-prisons-dismisses-officer-for-drug-trafficking/

Oke warns Akeredolu to Stop giving your aides orders to lambast Tinubu, other APC leaders
The crisis rocking the Ondo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC has thickened going by the ‘brickbats’ being thrown by the aides of the State Governor, Olawarotimi Akeredolu and supporters of other leaders of the party in the State.

The latest is the reaction of the chieftain of the party, Chief Olusola Oke, SAN to the statements credited to the aides of the governor, where he admonished Akeredolu to call his aides to order over the incessant attacks on the leaders of the party, which he alleged were based on the directives of the governor.

Following the query of the party’s National Working Committee, NWC, to Akeredolu over his role at the just concluded election, his aides have been attacking the National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the South West Director General of the 2019 Buhari Campaign Council, Olusola Oke, former Deputy Governor of the State, Alhaji Ali Olanusi as well as the former chairman of the party, Isaac Kekemeke among others as regards their stance against the anti-party activities of the governor.



Recall that prior to the 2019 General Elections, Akeredolu had directed APC members in the state to work for the victory of candidates who contested under the platform of the Action Alliance, AA, following the failure of his anointed candidates to secure the APC’s National Assembly ticket.

The governor’s move which was termed anti-party was said to have affected the fortunes of the party at the Presidential and National Assembly polls with the party losing Ondo to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

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PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari said that the Acting Inspector-General was striving to shorten frailty in the nation which has made him shed pounds. President Buhari additionally said that as he returned from a 10-day private visit to London, the United Kingdom, UK, he trusted that Nigerians would enable him to settle down and set up his bureau.

The President who addressed the Nigeria Television Authority, NTA, goodness his landing in the presidential Ving of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja likewise declined to reveal whether he would have an all-encompassing bureau in his second residency that begins from May 29.
While wishing Nigerians the good luck as he came back from his excursion, he spoke to Nigerians to permit him to settle down to take every necessary step he was chosen to do Asked on what sort of individuals expected to cosmetics his bureau and whether he would have and whether there would be an extended bureau, he basically answered “I won’t let you know.”

Also requested to remark on the intimation that he chose to go out of the nation to set up the rundown of his bureau for his second residency, he stated, “I didn’t disk it with anyone so I don’t have the foggiest idea how they got the data” Nigeria’s college framework due for upgrading – Ezinwoke On the designs to diminish weakness assaulting the nation, he stated, “I have quite recently observed the IGP (Inspector General of Police), he is getting thinner, so I think he is buckling down”.

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The presidency on Sunday spoke on how President Muhammadu Buhari won another term in office.

This was contained in an article by his spokesman, Garba Shehu.

He said Buhari who had in 2015 ended 16 years of continuous rule by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, recorded yet another resounding victory to win a second term in office, leading his closest, Atiku Abubakar, rival by a record-setting four million votes in 2019.

He noted that the All Progressives Congress, APC, gained the highest parliamentary majority in the Fourth Republic in the Senate and the House of Representatives, giving the President an ample room to carry out reforms he wished to carry out, but was outmaneuvered and frustrated by the eighth National Assembly.

It reads: “While campaigning for the 2015 general elections, President Buhari’s All APC made promises to end Boko Haram terrorism and secure the country for it to be efficiently managed; to restructure the economy, halt its downward slide and create jobs and to fight corruption because, as the president repeatedly says, “if Nigeria doesn’t kill corruption, corruption will kill Nigeria.”

“His climactic victory against the then incumbent Goodluck Jonathan, his strong message on the three issues as listed above, his practical and serious approach helped to awaken a nation misled by characters who placed self above nation for sixteen years and more.

Read more: https://gistok.ng/presidency-reveals-how-buhari-defeated-atiku-pdp/

The Delta State Ethnic Nationalities Youth Leaders Forum has threatened to resist plan to relocate the head office of the Nigerian Gas Marketing Company (NMGC), a subsidiary of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC) from Warri to Abuja.

The umbrella body of youths group in Delta State described the agenda as a ploy and conspiracy to further impoverished the Niger Delta region, especially the oil-bearing communities that produces the nation’s wealth.

Ity noted that the planned relocation of oil companies from their operational bases in Niger Delta was at variance with the directive of the Federal Government that all oil companies should relocate their headquarters back to the region.

The group, in a statement signed by Eric Omare, President, IYC, Agbateyiniro Weyinmi, President, INYC, Ovie Umuakpo, President, INYA, Festus Oviesiri, President, UYC, Benjamin Onwubolu, President, NYM, and Emeke Asike of the Ika Youth Movement, disclosed that they are in possession of a leaked memo to this effect.

“We are privy to a memo dated April 3 and addressed to NNPC group managing director, seeking for approval to relocate the company head office from Warri to Abuja based on alleged and non-existing security concerns in Warri..

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