Arsenal 1 Liverpool 1: Lacazette checks Klopp's title bid

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCuGMY-mxbPyydCQr5f3KTzB9TyUvrv5j0l0Bp2Mal8PEYrDoE1DtF3ta0aAbhAhf6C1kdElZYH0nxazTthcV_wXzlOqCXLVqY5iCiKXoSSDCaugnoaIHRifWaJ6DYRvSIQkKH_Y6uiz84/s1600/ars+1-1+liv.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCuGMY-mxbPyydCQr5f3KTzB9TyUvrv5j0l0Bp2Mal8PEYrDoE1DtF3ta0aAbhAhf6C1kdElZYH0nxazTthcV_wXzlOqCXLVqY5iCiKXoSSDCaugnoaIHRifWaJ6DYRvSIQkKH_Y6uiz84/s320/ars+1-1+liv.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> Alexandre Lacazette's fifth Premier League goal of the season grabbed a 1-1 draw for Arsenal in their pulsating Emirates Stadium encounter with Liverpool.<br /> <br /> Liverpool spent significant periods on the back foot against their vibrant hosts, although Sadio Mane had a goal controversially ruled out for offside and Virgil van Dijk hit the post before captain James Milner clinically pounced on a Bernd Leno error after the hour.<br /> <br /> Milner's landmark 50th Premier League goal would not prove decisive, however, as Lacazette latched onto substitute Alex Iwobi's pass, drew Alisson from his goal and finished sublimely.<br /> <br /> Jurgen Klopp's side go back to the top of the table for now but will be two points behind Manchester City if the champions beat lowly Southampton on Sunday, while Chelsea can also go above them with three points against Crystal Palace.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Joe Gomez's last-ditch challenge deflected Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's 14th-minute shot behind, while Sadio Mane was flagged offside at the other end when he tapped in after Roberto Firmino hit the post.<br /> <br /> A combination of Bernd Leno and Shkodran Mustafi prevented Van Dijk from giving Liverpool a 23rd-minute lead when the centre-back stayed forward after a set-piece.<br /> <br /> The frantic end-to-end feel continued, with Aubameyang dragging off target from Henrikh Mkhitaryan's backheel, before Mesut Ozil produced an impudent flick of his own from Granit Xhaka's chipped 39th-minute pass for Alexandre Lacazette to fire wide.<br /> <br /> Replicating Alisson's earlier dart from his goal to disrupt a Mkhitaryan aerial attempt, Leno charged haphazardly into Van Dijk in first-half stoppage time and was relieved to see the defender's header bounce to safety off the upright.<br /> <br /> Mkhitaryan passed up a couple of shooting opportunities as Arsenal resumed on top but Milner broke the deadlock, smashing home when Leno's fumble from Mane's cross deflected into his path off Rob Holding.<br /> <br /> Leno partly atoned for that error by pushing over Van Dijk's 74th-minute header, by which stage Arsenal's earlier poise and threat looked to have dissipated. Lacazette had other ideas eight minutes from time.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Credit: Goal</div>

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Live Commentary: Arsenal 0-0 Liverpool

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPTBsR8ChThjV4Cl-1TGbHaticjuU12pE2y_bcChleSTmVR80Ja9Ofo8VT155MZiPhPcbLBPc6Siwmc48Q_thOrYXN26-xIqyInzHeKtaH31ogoxNf7VmD8uUwLP8vBO-iFDn2lcOj7m7G/s1600/Arsenal+vs+Liverpool.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPTBsR8ChThjV4Cl-1TGbHaticjuU12pE2y_bcChleSTmVR80Ja9Ofo8VT155MZiPhPcbLBPc6Siwmc48Q_thOrYXN26-xIqyInzHeKtaH31ogoxNf7VmD8uUwLP8vBO-iFDn2lcOj7m7G/s400/Arsenal+vs+Liverpool.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> Good afternoon and welcome to <b><i>Nigerianeye's</i></b> live text coverage of the Premier League clash between Arsenal and Liverpool at the Emirates Stadium.<br /> <br /> The hosts come into this contest on a 13-game unbeaten streak across all competitions, including 12 wins since beginning the campaign with back-to-back defeats.<br /> <br /> Liverpool, meanwhile, are yet to taste defeat in the Premier League this season and would move top of the table if they continue that run this afternoon.<br /> <br /> Make sure you don't miss a moment of the action courtesy of our minute-by-minute updates below.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <b>1 min</b> Here we go, then! Liverpool get us underway at the Emirates!</div>

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Man kills his mother, makes love to her corpse for money ritual

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="403" data-original-width="789" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-Ql98dqx-gclbuSQ5oZFpx3z0gpL3AMuchzZ2bcwNk60iEmYTqWWSFwYAQIgi42KZ6F7JATprLimF6uqz-mTwN5-k6g5_0m5Ld6TwaJDquXVPBqMD5BghLagmYpEvud3ZfwDv4owrSy-u/s400/police-logo1.jpg" width="400" /></div> <br /> <br /> Men of the Edo State Police Command have arrested a 21-year old man, Samuel Emobor Oghenekporboro, for allegedly killing his mother and making love to her corpse several times for money ritual.<br /> <br /> His 58 years old mother identified as Mrs Christiana Ighoyivwi was said to have been strangulated at their residence at 8B, Market road, Ologbo Community along Benin- Sapele road in Ikpoba-Okha local government area.<br /> <br /> It was gathered that an herbalist had told the suspect that money would fall from heaven while making love with his mother’s corpse.<br /> <br /> Sources said it was a grandmother of the suspect, Mrs Maria Gabriel, that caught him making love with the corpse.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> She was at the residence at about 6am to invite her late daughter to a nearby church for morning prayers when she caught the suspect.<br /> <br /> The old woman was said to have knocked repeatedly on her daughter’s (victim) door but nobody responded and raised an alarm after peeing through the door.<br /> <br /> The suspects who opened the door and attempted to escape was held by neighbours who handed him over to the police.<br /> <br /> Sources said semen-stained pants belonging to the suspect and his late mother were recovered from the room as exhibits by the police.<br /> <br /> It was gathered that the suspect told interrogators that he thought money would rain from heaven after killing his mother and making love to her.<br /> Spokesman for Edo Police Command, DSP Chidi Nwabuzor, said investigation was ongoing saying the suspect would be arraigned soon.

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Marcus Rashford nets Manchester United's stoppage time winner at Bournemouth

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi93WcDJ7XuGf2M8IFUFa_jTE1ZMlR0FSy4WGkQ6xJ8NBrUo3L9rxAOQ9ZBYeE-RAUOnFTfO9Zb6ng9IQqRe2DoiH04U0mlr6-6qTAbwXDw1EtaWtNDpXJoyKy6ZPn3U_ehPi4CEx7J6RXI/s1600/bou+1-2+mu+2.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi93WcDJ7XuGf2M8IFUFa_jTE1ZMlR0FSy4WGkQ6xJ8NBrUo3L9rxAOQ9ZBYeE-RAUOnFTfO9Zb6ng9IQqRe2DoiH04U0mlr6-6qTAbwXDw1EtaWtNDpXJoyKy6ZPn3U_ehPi4CEx7J6RXI/s400/bou+1-2+mu+2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> Marcus Rashford scored a winner deep into stoppage time as Manchester United snatched a victory against Bournemouth at the Vitality.<br /> <br /> The Cherries were by far the better side in the first half and took the lead on 11 minutes through in-form Callum Wilson. However, despite being on top, they failed to add a second and allowed United to equalise against the run of play.<br /> <br /> In typical recent fashion, Jose Mourinho's men started slowly; and they were lucky not to go behind inside five minutes when Wilson played in Ryan Fraser, whose tame effort was comfortably saved by David De Gea.<br /> <br /> But the visitors failed to heed the early warning signs and fell behind six minutes later when Wilson continued his impressive early-season scoring form as he made it 1-0.. United failed to properly clear a corner and left a gaping hole down the left-hand side, which Bournemouth ruthlessly exploited.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Junior Stanislas played a perfectly weight ball across the United six-yard box which was begging to be turned home -- and Wilson duly obliged.<br /> <br /> Bournemouth were all over the visitors following that goal and both Fred and Paul Pogba were guilty of fouls borne purely out of frustration and not being able to get hold of the ball, with Luke Shaw lucky to not concede a penalty.<br /> <br /> However, against the run of play, United created an opening with their first move of any substance, which was finished off by in-form Anthony Martial. Alexis Sanchez -- who was starting in place of the injured Romelu Lukaku -- worked tirelessly in midfield to win the ball and played it to Young. The stand-in United skipper then fed Sanchez down the right-hand side and the ex-Arsenal man knocked the ball across the box for Martial to fire United level 10 minutes before half-time.<br /> <br /> The goal seemed to completely galvanise United and they came out for the second half a different side.<br /> <br /> Mourinho brought on Ander Herrera and Rashford just before the hour mark to great effect, with the Spaniard bringing extra energy in midfield after replacing Fred; and Rashford should have scored when presented with a glorious opportunity on 65 minutes.<br /> <br /> Young's free-kick cannoned off the post and the United man's goal-bound effort was sensationally blocked on the line by the chest of Nathan Ake.<br /> <br /> And, deep into added time, Rashford bundled in a winner as Bournemouth failed to deal with Pogba's cross.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Credit: ESPN</div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR1VRsEY0XwKm8wfZOE5b1RgJxcGFFx6oVgQtvPXe39fUEC0RYosPq4WkGREm5T2NOGO_oDX0r3sBc4hCgVf4EdWm81b-p5GMQqbBAX1Prkp21h9HvCBmPsQJyAL86usuTnNIqoKuPuTvn/s1600/Debe+Sylvester+Ojukwu.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR1VRsEY0XwKm8wfZOE5b1RgJxcGFFx6oVgQtvPXe39fUEC0RYosPq4WkGREm5T2NOGO_oDX0r3sBc4hCgVf4EdWm81b-p5GMQqbBAX1Prkp21h9HvCBmPsQJyAL86usuTnNIqoKuPuTvn/s320/Debe+Sylvester+Ojukwu.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> Chief Debe Sylvester Ojukwu, first son of late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumekwu Ojukwu, Biafran Warlord is dead.<br /> <br /> A family source, who confirmed the news to newsmen said he slumped and died at a private hospital in Lagos.<br /> <br /> We have so much respect for Ojukwu, BIM tells APGA.<br /> <br /> The source who pleaded anonymity said that they are yet to issue a statement on it.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a></div>

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Zamfara: APC will challenge INEC ban in court - Oshiomhole

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhevR1lvoeSIik3Dy0LNALhoKNu6FKvJEJ_GV3OtJTn26wC9VTrZ273k9-eBLGrtQRi4NWiiosUwEiehpOoyxQvgJgED9CgRF8nD63EGDcF1VlDolXSCjMYBTjBGVvjAOSbT4UhVXB6ZnEf/s1600/Adams+Oshiomole.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhevR1lvoeSIik3Dy0LNALhoKNu6FKvJEJ_GV3OtJTn26wC9VTrZ273k9-eBLGrtQRi4NWiiosUwEiehpOoyxQvgJgED9CgRF8nD63EGDcF1VlDolXSCjMYBTjBGVvjAOSbT4UhVXB6ZnEf/s320/Adams+Oshiomole.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, says the party will approach the court on its ban by the Independent National Electoral Commission from fielding candidates for elective positions in Zamfara State in the 2019 general elections.<br /> <br /> Oshiomhole stated this on Friday in Abuja while briefing newsmen on the state of affairs of the party.<br /> <br /> He said that INEC cannot disenfranchise the people of Zamfara from participating in any of the elections in 2019.<br /> <br /> “With all due respect, INEC cannot award a state to the Peoples Democratic Party or any other political party.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “It has to be the decision of the people of Zamfara State or any other people in any other state that is going to participate in any of the elections.<br /> <br /> “I believe the court will look at the law and the rules, and as far as the legal advice we have gotten is concerned, we believe we are on good grounds.<br /> <br /> “We want to see INEC as an impartial arbiter, and I trust that they will do their very best to maintain their name as an impartial arbiter,“ Oshiomhole said.<br /> <br /> He added that for now, the APC has confidence in INEC, even though according to him, the commission is being pressured by the PDP to do internal reorganisation.<br /> <br /> The APC national chairman expressed optimism that the rule of law would prevail. He added that the party has confidence in the judiciary and would always abide by court rulings.<br /> <br /> The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that INEC had on October 10, said that APC was not eligible to field candidates for Governorship, National Assembly and State Assembly positions in Zamfara in the 2019 elections.<br /> <br /> The commission in a letter signed by Okechukwu Ndeche, the acting Secretary, said APC was not qualified to field candidates because it failed to conduct primaries in Zamfara within the stipulated time-frame.<br /> <br /> Oshiomhole while reacting to the development, had insisted that the party held primaries in Zamfara State.</div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixhc7iWBOa50Ff-aiaVUSpqB1XDNgYeGopTwG8k6mefiQBcTOB858KU-8_QCF_u5B4q5rmUDOrhU1q7NHXWGXUWP7cXQxZwDXQ_gyPrcjfxdWUVNfWgN3V4gzqbpdhlNnS68WLiB0BXwHV/s1600/mosquito.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixhc7iWBOa50Ff-aiaVUSpqB1XDNgYeGopTwG8k6mefiQBcTOB858KU-8_QCF_u5B4q5rmUDOrhU1q7NHXWGXUWP7cXQxZwDXQ_gyPrcjfxdWUVNfWgN3V4gzqbpdhlNnS68WLiB0BXwHV/s400/mosquito.jpg" /></a></div> A Chinese entomologist has broken a new Guinness World Record after discovering the world’s biggest mosquito.<br /> <br /> This week, Zhao Li, with the Insect Museum of West China in Chengdu, capital of the southwestern province of Sichuan, received certification from the Guinness World Records, which confirmed a giant mosquito he discovered in June to be the world’s biggest.<br /> <br /> Previously, the record holder was a mosquito discovered by British zoologist Mark Carwardine. Carwardine describes in his 2008 book “Animal Records” that the distance between the mosquito’s foreleg and hind leg could reach 23 cm.<br /> <br /> But Zhao’s discovery of the mosquito, known as Holorusia mikado, has nabbed the top spot.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> The specimen of the mosquito, kept in Zhao’s museum, has a wingspan of 11.15 cm, while the distance between its foreleg and hind leg is 25.8 cm.<br /> <br /> Holorusia mikado, the biggest kind of mosquito, was originally discovered in Japan. Zhao said that such giant mosquitos barely suck on blood. Instead, they feed on honey flower.<br /> <br /> “Actually, in English, it is not called a mosquito,” Zhao said. “It is called a crane fly. Meanwhile, people in Germany call it a ‘long-legged father’.”<br /> <br /> The Insect Museum of West China keeps more than 700,000 items, including insect specimens, fossils and cultural relics.</div>

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WAEC explains why President Buhari was not given certificate in 2015

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUPEFd-tdYofdKn3HPdtibYrWObJTys94YeHyLh9KmI3zlCNkJ2Gq0EXpUHMIgu1DRoYI8k7WSn-urNe3Qha5NrQh5wRZJS0KhpgFaRTW74qNxLsSDzGlt2IauVtvSkPVeoPo1Hs3AKfV2/s1600/President+Muhammadu+Buhari.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUPEFd-tdYofdKn3HPdtibYrWObJTys94YeHyLh9KmI3zlCNkJ2Gq0EXpUHMIgu1DRoYI8k7WSn-urNe3Qha5NrQh5wRZJS0KhpgFaRTW74qNxLsSDzGlt2IauVtvSkPVeoPo1Hs3AKfV2/s320/President+Muhammadu+Buhari.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> The West African Examination Council, WAEC, has explained why the body was not able to give President Muhammadu Buhari an “attestation of his result in 2015.<br /> <br /> WAEC, through its Registrar, Iyi Uwadiae, had on Friday presented the attestation of results to Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.<br /> <br /> However, the action of WAEC stirred reactions among Nigerians, who questioned why Buhari was not issued the certificate in 2015 but has done same ahead of 2019.<br /> <br /> Responding to a statement on Twitter, WAEC on it’s official Twitter page wrote: “What happened was that Move On. Nigeria went to Ghana to ask for a record that is in Nigeria. Was the exam done in Ghana? And for the avoidance of doubt, only the candidate and a court of competent jurisdiction can ask the Council for any certificate/result.”<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> <br /></div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYUmo5I11K5bng-MMZJLWiCxgIQs-fAk4doVm1afcvpAI5cuerlpyQ3oldIO7y3_iaVKXvbklJVqW5htjLD09XGsDEKBWpnPLlmFpgEJ0ZEzenEQkyh77qWc1snPGIXIlaOtv9c2DRHgy/s1600/Uche+Nwosu.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYUmo5I11K5bng-MMZJLWiCxgIQs-fAk4doVm1afcvpAI5cuerlpyQ3oldIO7y3_iaVKXvbklJVqW5htjLD09XGsDEKBWpnPLlmFpgEJ0ZEzenEQkyh77qWc1snPGIXIlaOtv9c2DRHgy/s400/Uche+Nwosu.jpg" /></a></div> Former Chief of staff to Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha, Mr. Uche Nwosu, yesterday said the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomole, cannot stop his 2019 governorship candidature for APC, in the state.<br /> <br /> Nwosu spoke to newsmen in Owerri, following report that Senator Hope Uzodimma, name has been submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as authentic candidate for Imo APC guber.<br /> <br /> He said he was shocked that Oshiomole, had disregarded court orders stopping APC and INEC, from accepting or submitting any other name other him( Nwosu) adding that at last he would defeat Oshiomole, lawfully.<br /> <br /> According Nwosu, “My mandate is still intact, I still remain the candidate of the APC, I am very much shocked with the National Chairman who is speaking from the both sides of his mouth as a man of that age I thought he would have been upright.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “I am shocked that a man who has attained that age and who we should look up to as our role model has become somebody who many of us can no longer see as a role model again.<br /> <br /> “I am shocked at the attitude of the National Chairman which does not give hope to young people that mostly look up to him for years.<br /> <br /> “I will not leave APC, I still remain the authentic candidate of that party, I still have a valid Court Oder restraining the party from submitting any other name and also restraining INEC from accepting any other name other than my name and the matter is in Court.<br /> <br /> “So if they go anywhere and got another Court Order without knowing that there is a subsisting Court Order that must have been done that in error.<br /> <br /> “So the fact remains that I am the candidate of APC, it is just for a while and I will take up my mandate, I don’t have in mind to leave the mandate I already have for another party.”<br /> <br /> “My candidacy is secured and cannot be truncated by the National Chairman or any other person,<br /> <br /> “I will never abandon the mandate given to him by the party members to be their governorship candidate for the 2019 election.<br /> <br /> “We are disappointed over Oshiomole’s action, his statements and antics did not give hope to young people who hitherto had always looked up to him.”<br /> <br /> Nwosu argued that, “After all Oshiomole’s son is a member of the Edo State House of Assembly, who he nominated and he is the Chairman of the party and he is saying that Okorocha’s Senatorial ambition scuttled my governorship.<br /> <br /> “He is a man that is supposed to speak rightly and not deceive the people on air. I saw him on the Television when he was talking from both sides of his mouth.<br /> <br /> “It is a pity that APC could have such a man as its National Chairman, I condemn his action and it is not acceptable.”</div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIp3O8AWrf-bRi_uITCXB7mjfQfNh2e7_YgCC7YTbZ4KuIRIHzehpMXFE0LcJnykimCLCweAku2plY07_-spZml23edLFDZqh_nKJvHZsDDN94M9uaO7BskwX4yr6npq33d-yAK3cYI4yH/s1600/Mauricio+Pochettino.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIp3O8AWrf-bRi_uITCXB7mjfQfNh2e7_YgCC7YTbZ4KuIRIHzehpMXFE0LcJnykimCLCweAku2plY07_-spZml23edLFDZqh_nKJvHZsDDN94M9uaO7BskwX4yr6npq33d-yAK3cYI4yH/s320/Mauricio+Pochettino.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> Brazil legend, Rivaldo has advised Real Madrid to sign Tottenham Hotspur manager, Mauricio Pochettino, as the new new coach for Los Blancos following the sack of Julen Lopetegui.<br /> <br /> Lopetegui was dismissed Monday evening after just four months in his appointment as Zinedine Zidane’s successor.<br /> <br /> He was sacked after Madrid were hammered 5-1 by Barcelona at the Nou Camp.<br /> <br /> Lopetegui was “provisionally replaced” by ex-player and manager of Real Madrid Castilla, Santiago Solari.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> But Rivaldo is now making a case for Pochettino to take over at the Santiago Bernabeu, stressing that he was the right manager to coach Madrid.<br /> <br /> “From what I’ve been hearing, Florentino Pérez appreciates Mauricio Pochettino’s qualities and is interested in signing him,” Rivaldo told Betfair (via the Evening Standard).<br /> <br /> “Pochettino is obviously a good manager with experience in La Liga and for that reason I believe he could be a good option for the club.<br /> <br /> “Perez wasn’t expecting that things could go so wrong so quickly this season,” he added.<br /> <br /> “Madrid’s poor start to the season might lead him to make a big investment in a new coach and maybe buy a new goalscorer to replace Cristiano Ronaldo.<br /> <br /> “That’s where the possibility of bringing Pochettino, along with English striker Harry Kane, gets in the mix, but Real Madrid will need to invest seriously to achieve both, as Tottenham won’t be interested in losing them easily.<br /> <br /> “I think both options could be important for Real Madrid. They are suffering up front, scoring very few goals and Kane could be the solution.”</div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKPF4u5bfLxDfvQLEzTQjwvwoqW_g3SF9ORBwJD0-0W0YVYc18O84WWtbtjYq2Tr2gRVur3WWtuHZqSe38l_cZpsvjsIHPJDV9BmQE20fzfmXup2yKd15VmA4SWsnXRyrYgy2B8IqyZB4L/s1600/Kayode+Fayemi.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKPF4u5bfLxDfvQLEzTQjwvwoqW_g3SF9ORBwJD0-0W0YVYc18O84WWtbtjYq2Tr2gRVur3WWtuHZqSe38l_cZpsvjsIHPJDV9BmQE20fzfmXup2yKd15VmA4SWsnXRyrYgy2B8IqyZB4L/s320/Kayode+Fayemi.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> -In a bid to reposition education in Ekiti State, Governor Kayode Fayemi, on Friday, inaugurated visitation panels for three state-owned institutions.<br /> <br /> Also inaugurated was a Fact Finding Committee for the state’s Broadcasting Service.<br /> <br /> The visitation panels, which were set up through executive orders signed by the Governor, are for Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, College of Education, Ikere-Ekiti, and College of Health Sciences and Technology, Ijero Ekiti respectively.<br /> <br /> While inaugurating the panels at the Governor’s Office, Ado-Ekiti, Fayemi charged members to take proper review of the issues that have come up in past few years in the state adding that government constituted the panels because it did not want to act on hearsay from some quarters of the society.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> The Governor stressed the need for them to conduct a programme of evaluation of the philosophy and targets of the institutions and ensure that academic standard originally envisaged is not devalued.<br /> <br /> He used the opportunity to assure the people that members of the panels are experts in their own rights with track records of expertise, excellence and integrity.<br /> <br /> The Governor stressed the need for them to complete their assignment within the ambit of time given to them as well as ensure that their reports contain specific measurable recommendations that are implementable.<br /> <br /> Fayemi said, “Rather than being arbitrary in some of the decisions we had to take, we felt it will be best to have the experts, people who are experienced, people who are knowledgeable, people who are also driven by passion and excellence to help us review some of the issues that have come up in the course of the past few years in our state.<br /> <br /> “What is important is that your reports contain very specific measurable recommendations, not nebulous recommendations that are not implementable. It must be very very specific and it will be easy to hold us to account if we do not implement the recommendations that you have come up with.<br /> <br /> For the Broadcasting Service of Ekiti State, the Governor said, “This is an institution that ran foul of the law which caused its closure by the National Broadcasting Commission in order for it not to create crisis in the state.<br /> <br /> “We have asked those who are in that panel to look into what led to this and how to guide against this in the future and how to try to insulate the broadcasting service from undue political infiltration. It is also important to at least ensure that the statute setting up that institution is adhered to”.<br /> <br /> Responding on behalf of other panel members, the Chairman of the visitation panel for Ekiti State University, Prof. Bode Asubiojo appreciated the Governor for giving them the opportunity to serve and assured that they will do their best to achieve the desired result within the ambit of the time given to them.<br /> <br /> The four Panels were given four weeks to submit their reports and recommendations.</div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKN7BuIPJVrrN9zJD8omjw7KAIuDLX4fTpS8Rxd2CMt6ckHqLJYv4JCJQi5-sshMyZJ6cCB5mTTBwjHSOLod_MiQJTHVHkTxZaPhBmj4tVknJ-4RuPMONoB4J_q-qa6e4204egObAexKmr/s1600/Chris+Ngige.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKN7BuIPJVrrN9zJD8omjw7KAIuDLX4fTpS8Rxd2CMt6ckHqLJYv4JCJQi5-sshMyZJ6cCB5mTTBwjHSOLod_MiQJTHVHkTxZaPhBmj4tVknJ-4RuPMONoB4J_q-qa6e4204egObAexKmr/s320/Chris+Ngige.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige on Friday said that conciliation on the National Minimum Wage will continue despite the injunction of the National Industrial Court restraining the organized labour from embarking on strike.<br /> <br /> The Minister in a statement by the Director Press in the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Samuel Olowookere said that the conciliation meeting involving the Organized Labour, the Organized Private Sector and Government scheduled for Sunday, November 4, 2018 at the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation by 6:00 p.m was still on course and will hold.<br /> <br /> This will be followed on Monday, November 5, 2018 by 11:00 a.m the meeting of the National Tripartite Minimum Wage Committee at the same venue<br /> <br /> The Minister used the opportunity to again appeal to all tripartite members to attend these meetings in the interest of the Nation.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Recall that the President of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Ayuba Wabba, had vowed that the organised labour would not be part of any conciliation meeting or negotiation on minimum wage, alleging that every discussion about minimum wage had been concluded.<br /> <br /> He said that the only meeting organised labour will attend will be the signing of the minimum wage report and not negotiation.</div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8DXE0vC9n-hoUsd7LRLHuahyphenhyphenZLHQK3unUfrn1DOwgcXJih8huT2Hr9gd_z2ZmpDzgav6CmwybTpu4h9P5evl7mSqaQuYMAhFrwW8yZZoYgtVCaryJNZBcMoWHU7Evf5nwO0omrlNcuYYX/s1600/Federal+government+of+Nigeria.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8DXE0vC9n-hoUsd7LRLHuahyphenhyphenZLHQK3unUfrn1DOwgcXJih8huT2Hr9gd_z2ZmpDzgav6CmwybTpu4h9P5evl7mSqaQuYMAhFrwW8yZZoYgtVCaryJNZBcMoWHU7Evf5nwO0omrlNcuYYX/s400/Federal+government+of+Nigeria.png" /></a></div> The Federal Government has called for the extension of Google Station’s free WiFi services to markets in Nigeria.<br /> <br /> The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, disclosed this in Lagos on Friday while declaring open the 32nd Lagos International Trade Fair.<br /> <br /> He said, “We are currently facilitating an innovative product being rolled out by Google, the Google Station where free WiFi is provided in public places. So we now have Google Station in six different locations, including Palms Shopping Mall, Landmark Centre, the University of Lagos, MM2, the domestic airport, computer village and Ikeja City Mall.<br /> <br /> “But for us, the more interesting part of it is that we are asking them to roll out in markets across Nigeria. So, in the next few months, they will be in Onitsha Main Market; in Gbagi, Ibadan; in Kuto Market in Abeokuta; in the Kaduna Central Market, Sura Market and Lagos/Abuja international airport by the end of the year.”<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> According to Osinbajo, the government believes that by democratising access to the Internet in public places and in markets, more people can do their business and receive information, and the information can be cheaply delivered to them.<br /> <br /> Speaking about the challenges in export and import processes, he admitted that there were still a lot of problems despite cutting down on documentation.<br /> <br /> He said, “We are working on that and one of the reasons why we are trying to establish the national trade platform or the single window for imports and exports is because it can significantly reduce the time it takes to bring in goods and clear them.<br /> <br /> “We hope that we will be able to launch that single window in a few months. It is being delayed due to individual ministries, departments and agencies of government trying to align all their various electronic platforms. But we are working on all of that.”<br /> <br /> In his welcome remarks, the President, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mr Babatunde Ruwase, said the theme of the trade fair, ‘Connecting businesses, creating value,’ was chosen to underscore the importance of relationships and interactions among businesses for the purpose of wealth creation.<br /> <br /> “It is also to underline the value of interactions between producers and service providers, and the end users,” he added.<br /> <br /> The Chairman, Trade Promotion Board, LCCI, Mr Gabriel Idahosa, expressed confidence that exhibitors would get full benefits of participating in the fair.<br /> <br /> “They will expand their business horizon through the development of new partnerships, new customers, feedback from their consumers and showcasing their products, not just to the Nigerian market but also to continental and global markets,” he stated.</div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHzVOZVWo2SScuUIrjE0gUy2wqd8Gt208DxisiQlM01poX2LttVXAPsKxsZGh5Gxpa1cxNWAr5Q885meRgRiVDd8Rw6BF9UkCEQX08BYgyqB4yUfPa1qsFPS8S0Z1z3v6W8a7rDmcLj2zI/s1600/UN.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHzVOZVWo2SScuUIrjE0gUy2wqd8Gt208DxisiQlM01poX2LttVXAPsKxsZGh5Gxpa1cxNWAr5Q885meRgRiVDd8Rw6BF9UkCEQX08BYgyqB4yUfPa1qsFPS8S0Z1z3v6W8a7rDmcLj2zI/s320/UN.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> The United Nations has condemned the attack on an internally displaced persons camp by suspected Boko Haram members in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.<br /> <br /> The UN in a statement by its Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr. Edward Kallon, asked the Federal Government to step up security of the country and ensure the safety of lives and property.<br /> <br /> Boko Haram had on Wednesday attacked the IDPs camp in Dalori, which is a few kilometres from Maiduguri. The camp hosts about 12,600 persons.<br /> <br /> Kallon said, “I urge the government of Nigeria to step up the protection of innocent people. Attacks on camps for internally displaced persons threaten the lives of these innocent women, children and men who have already fled their homes as a result of the ongoing conflict. Our deepest condolences go to the families of the victims of this attack and we wish the injured speedy recovery.”<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> He said the attack took place in one of the nine IDPs camps in Dalori.<br /> <br /> Meanwhile, the Benue State Emergency Management Agency on Friday banned political gathering in IDPs camps in the state.<br /> <br /> The directive may not be unconnected to a purported political rally held by the All Progressives Congress in a camp at Daudu last Friday.<br /> <br /> The Executive Secretary of the agency, Emmanuel Shior, noted the ban had become necessary to stop politicians from exploiting the misfortunes of the people for “cheap political goals.”<br /> <br /> The statement read in part, “It is exactly one week ago when leaders of the All Progressives Congress from Benue State stormed Daudu to formally receive a former Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Dr. Steven Tsav, from the Peoples Democratic Party to its fold.<br /> <br /> “Although the event has come and gone, it has left many issues that deserve very strong caution and portrayed some of our leaders in very bad light.<br /> <br /> “How could a sane person believe that these people (IDPs) who are victims of a failed Federal Government will be willing to identify with a party that is the brains behind their sufferings?”</div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfleQ-1qF2S6a4W0eB2Gp0gjJT-5cVF0iJfAICc5XdshiDM2_CY9cPx3Zj9rkJIUW5e1tUO_cDA3j8tRSZlcE3uVp_slHl4F9ygWRi1WKlynqLFMU3-cfI8Y3qiwkzPPee9G_BltJdYnrn/s1600/Adams+Oshiomole.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfleQ-1qF2S6a4W0eB2Gp0gjJT-5cVF0iJfAICc5XdshiDM2_CY9cPx3Zj9rkJIUW5e1tUO_cDA3j8tRSZlcE3uVp_slHl4F9ygWRi1WKlynqLFMU3-cfI8Y3qiwkzPPee9G_BltJdYnrn/s320/Adams+Oshiomole.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> Some aggrieved women of Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress have passed a vote of no confidence on the National Working Committee of the party for allegedly promoting nepotism and tyranny in the party.<br /> <br /> Addressing journalists in Benin on Friday, the women accused the leadership of party, led by its National Chairman and former governor of the state, Adams Oshiomhole, of allegedly subverting the aspirations of female party members with impunity.<br /> <br /> They also said that the controversial primaries conducted by the NWC “without recourse to equity, justice and fair play” exposed the APC as “a party of hawks, swallowing chickens as its prey.”<br /> <br /> The coordinator of the aggrieved group and State Organising Secretary of the party, Aisosa Amadasun, noted that female aspirants across the state were not only subjected to harrowing experiences, by being charged exorbitant fees for the collection of nomination forms, but also screened out, even when they were “eminently qualified.”<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Amadasun lamented that about 10 women from the three senatorial districts were denied tickets by the national leadership of the APC, in spite of their sacrifices.<br /> <br /> She said, “The level of impunity has assumed a frightening dimension under the leadership of our national chairman, who once prided himself as an apostle of change and the curative medicine to ‘godfatherism’.<br /> <br /> “The primaries conducted so far by the leadership of the APC across the 36 states of the country are not only shameful, disgraceful, undemocratic, and a charade, but also threw many states into mayhem and shocked the foundation of the party and out it on the edge of a precipice.<br /> <br /> “Any party that fails to recognise the inputs of women and reward them with positions commensurate to their painstaking efforts to ensure victory is not only doomed but will suffer defeat.”<br /> <br /> She, however, vowed that the women would no long play second fiddle to the men who used them as “campaign tools”.<br /> <br /> She also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to take pragmatic steps to remedy the injustice done to them, adding that proper reconciliation was needed to ensure victory for the party in the 2019 general elections.</div>

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifAanhmAunms5ugwhuPMNgyyVZaFQdhGN7ZEKuWE926785othnYD5o6mJLDZZikw1Do1przGNtmIevMHhV_xA_6-fKNfE6j0IhaVf1KiFLAtUtFTBg0HZQQEbxKvx3gysl4iwvpzFf-o0I/s1600/okorocha+oshiomole.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="806" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifAanhmAunms5ugwhuPMNgyyVZaFQdhGN7ZEKuWE926785othnYD5o6mJLDZZikw1Do1przGNtmIevMHhV_xA_6-fKNfE6j0IhaVf1KiFLAtUtFTBg0HZQQEbxKvx3gysl4iwvpzFf-o0I/s640/okorocha+oshiomole.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has described Rochas Okorocha, governor of Imo state, as an embarrassment to the ruling party.<br /> <br /> The national chairman said this at a press conference in Abuja.<br /> <br /> His comment comes after the governor accused him of working against the interest of the party and making the APC lose five million voters.<br /> <br /> “I also request that Oshiomhole must learn to respect the rule of law and obey court orders where they apply. This issue of treating court orders as tissue papers must stop; it doesn’t reflect the image of our party,” Okorocha had told journalists after meeting President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday.<br /> <br /> “Since his inception and after the primaries, we have lost almost five million voters. There is anger, protest everywhere. He needs to be called to order; he has to respect the rule of law, respect court orders and do the right thing.”<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> But Oshiomhole denied the allegations by the governor, maintaining that he is on the right path.<br /> <br /> “Okorocha’s action is against the Christian community in Imo state and also an embarrassment to APC… we are not ready to join him in antagonising his people,” Oshiomhole said.<br /> <br /> “Yesterday, I watched Okorocha on television urging me to obey the rule of law but we followed due process to rescue him because the congresses conducted by my predecessor swept Okorocha out of the system. We thought it wise to restore due process and ordered fresh congress in the state.<br /> <br /> “If Governor Rochas chose to relocate to the villa and use the ground of villa to try to intimidate me to create a dynasty, I will uphold the best interest of APC members and indeed of APC people in Imo state.”<br /> <br /> Oshiomhole also took the opportunity of the conference to descend on Ibikunle Amosun, governor of Ogun state, accusing him of injustice and fraud in relation to the APC primaries held in Ogun.<br /> <br /> He said the governor had called him to say that the Ogun APC was going to adopt consensus option, but he rejected it, insisting on direct primary.<br /> <br /> “Governor Amosun decided that him and his prefered aspirant will not participate in the primaries organised by the working committee and even tried to withdraw the security that was necessary for the primary panel,” he said.<br /> <br /> “At a stakeholders’ meeting, Governor Amosun decided to introduce the third element which didn’t feature in the resolution of the NEC, announced that Ogun State was going to adopt consensus and he proceeded to define what in his view constitute consensus.<br /> <br /> “He announced somebody as the consensus governor, he proceeded to announce another man as the deputy governor, he went on to proclaim (himself) as the next senator and he said the current serving senator, Tejuoso, should step aside.<br /> <br /> “He also went on to announce that the second senator also from Ogun State will step aside while another man will come in. Governor Amosun went on to announce another man who will be the next speaker, and another one as the next deputy speaker. He also singlehandedly pronounced that of the eight House of Representatives members, seven will not return. According to him, only one will return. All these he claimed is a consensus.<br /> <br /> “However, Ogun state governor decided in his wisdom to conduct his own self help, I mean resulting to what you can call self help by conducting what he called his own primary. The Secretary to Ogun state government became the chief returning officer and I and other NWC members were watching the Channels Television and we saw the secretary to Ogun state government proclaiming himself as the returning officer, and purported to have conducted primary.”

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I won’t work for Atiku in 2019 - Tinubu

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="631" data-original-width="1164" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-0MgPn0W7REtUDR2M7Pnzs4mANofKWJFGZ5IjuXARb5Sxa8C2Zg6f3H2b8hAOKu4M-rDr4gVzzerB7wG1fsQc78Mkojsv4Ytk4Zzmdf1k5Hut96371tVEr4JH97jh0V2adxPPUXe9wgnC/s400/tinubu+%25281%2529.jpg" width="400" /></div> <br /> <br /> Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says his relationship with Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is not about the 2019 elections.<br /> <br /> In a statement by Tunde Rahman, Tinubu’s spokesman, the APC leader said his relationship with Abubakar is the same as other politicians he has met in his political journey.<br /> <br /> Rahman was reacting to a statement credited to Abba Gana, a member of the PDP board of trustees and former FCT minister, that Tinubu would work with Abubakar in 2019 because they had a lot in common.<br /> <br /> The statement said the APC national leader has already indicated that he only supports the candidacy of President Muhammadu Buhari, “who is in his mission to rebuild the country from the ruins of the PDP years”.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “His Excellency Asiwaju Bola Tinubu indicated long ago where he stood on the matter of the 2019 elections,” the statement read.<br /> <br /> “He has continued to say he remains firmly behind that patriot, President Muhammadu Buhari, in his mission to rebuild the country from the ruins of the PDP years.<br /> <br /> “Only two days ago, he restated this position while speaking with correspondents at the State House in Abuja. He said the PDP could hold their meetings anywhere they liked and that Nigerians know who means well for them and is trustworthy. Where the former FCT Minister, Abba Gana got his conviction that Asiwaju Tinubu would do otherwise is left only to himself.<br /> <br /> “Yes, His Excellency Asiwaju has had a relationship with former Vice President, His Excellency Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, just like he has had with many of other leaders in his political journey. But this is about Nigeria, the well-being of the country and of Nigerians. On this score, he has made his pick.”<br /> <br /> On Friday, Tinubu met Buhari at Aso Rock. That was the second meeting between both men in 48 hours.<br /> <br />

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Promise of N90 pump price has exposed Atiku’s economic ignorance - Ezekwesili

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirr6RiorGJPdhOGf77Ffk5GxjQsk48Ya3ymD8QXhfXCjgF8exUkq-1v_GQIiLH_jSO78DlpUZZ6DO9z1VGymf87v4GoTZo1IkBLjqsOBwCFz-UdRmXnvZcQDuZ0h1BFjv3sn5YpXqyvIgr/s1600/Ezekwesili.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="328" data-original-width="432" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirr6RiorGJPdhOGf77Ffk5GxjQsk48Ya3ymD8QXhfXCjgF8exUkq-1v_GQIiLH_jSO78DlpUZZ6DO9z1VGymf87v4GoTZo1IkBLjqsOBwCFz-UdRmXnvZcQDuZ0h1BFjv3sn5YpXqyvIgr/s320/Ezekwesili.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> Oby Ezekwesili, presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), says the claim of the Peoples Democratic Party that Atiku Abubakar, its presidential candidate, will reduce fuel price to N90 shows the former vice president is ignorant of the economy.<br /> <br /> The product currently sells at N145 per litre but the opposition party said Abubakar had worked out a pricing template that will immediately crash the pump price to N90.<br /> <br /> In a statement issued on her behalf by her campaign group, Ezekwesili described the claim as fraudulent.<br /> <br /> “The party promised to crash fuel pump price to N90. This is 419, and it betrays the PDP candidate’s ignorance of how Basic Economics and the solutions Nigeria truly needs.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “The country ended 2018 with 4 trillion of Fiscal Deficit. Where will they find money to slash fuel price? Even if FG had such money, is it because they want another round of Subsidy-Slush Fund that they want to take the country deeper into the corrupted and market distorting fuel price fixing method?<br /> <br /> “The Obiageli Ezekwesili For President 2019 campaign is all for market determined pricing which will end up more favorable to the poor who have been and continue bearing the effect of corrupted subsidy regimes more while the rich enjoy the benefits.<br /> <br /> “This is a reminder to Nigerians that Abubakar Atiku’s so-called and questionable business acumen does not qualify him to run this economy.<br /> <br /> “Obiageli Ezekwesili is the only candidate in the race who has built and rebuilt national economies in Nigeria and outside, with a track record to show for it.”

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Satguru Maharaji Ji to Buhari - 'Come to me if you want to win 2019 election'

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy5gDiKY9mdtUuT-ktZICAKYJeRJ6OGlJnMd4GL1pTmqAgfI7i7Wnx30sm-XzWMFdV8Tg_kMzyCESoHfFEPpqNuFEuq_M4pReJo3ndVD5OpAlVCGkTCAzhFrLQHDtKZRnkXWZSG-sMvYwh/s1600/Guru09092015.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="509" data-original-width="640" height="509" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy5gDiKY9mdtUuT-ktZICAKYJeRJ6OGlJnMd4GL1pTmqAgfI7i7Wnx30sm-XzWMFdV8Tg_kMzyCESoHfFEPpqNuFEuq_M4pReJo3ndVD5OpAlVCGkTCAzhFrLQHDtKZRnkXWZSG-sMvYwh/s640/Guru09092015.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> Founder and Spiritual Leader of One Love Family Satguru Maharaji Ji has restated his support for the re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari.<br /> <br /> He, however, stressed that the President and All Progressives Party (APC) leadership must come to him for spiritual guidance, if they hope to win 2019 presidential election.<br /> <br /> Maharaji Ji spoke to newsmen yesterday in Lagos ahead of One Love Family Golden Age Festival and celebration of The Divine Presence of Godman on Earth Again.<br /> <br /> The events hold between November the 9 -17, at Maharaj Ji Village, Km. 10 Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Oluyole, Oyo State.<br /> <br /> The Spiritual Leader of One Love Family said: “I will vote for the APC because of President Buhari’s stance against corruption and his sincerity of purpose in moving Nigeria forward.<br /> <br /> “All we need to do is to support and assist him. He needs our support and love. He is the first black president in history of Africa that has taken the bull by the horns.”<br /> <br /> He asserted that Buhari should be allowed to run for the second term because that would allow the North to have a fair share of their place in governance.<br /> <br /> Maharaji Ji added that for Buhari to win the 2019 election, he and the party’s leadership must come to him for spiritual guidance.<br /> <br /> According to him, “Buhari needs divine knowledge to be able to see what is going on so that he doesn’t surround himself with people who are only there to enrich themselves.”<br /> <br /> Maharaji Ji, who claim to be the light and the perfect living master, noted that in 2015, President Goodluck Jonathan was told to come and meet with him so he could guide him spiritually before the election, “but he refused and the rest today is history”.<br /> <br /> “I respect every government in power as the law stipulates and I will not disrespect anyone, but it is important to note that I am the light, the living perfect master and the solution to Nigeria’s woes is in my hands, if the people in power can connect with me,” he said.<br /> <br /> Maharaji Ji warned that Nigerians should be weary of those contesting for presidency and other positions of government as some are coming back to continue with the corruption spree that has taken Nigeria backward.<br /> <br /> He stressed that Nigerians must ask questions from the contestants and examined their past, their source of wealth and check through their track records before electing them.<br /> <br /> “Nigerians must wake up and must not be deceived by moneybag politicians. We need to examine every contestants, including President Buhari, and how he acquired his cows, landed property and his family life,” he said.<br /> <br /> Acknowledging the fact that democracy allows for more participation of people to contest for election positions, he said there is no perfect democracy in the world and each country must come up with its own form of democracy that will better the people’s lots.<br /> <br /> On the celebration of the Golden Age Festival, he said it is golden time in the history of the human race to meet, walk, talk, eat, drink and dance with the very special Golden boy, who arrived back to Africa on July 17, 1980.

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Billionaire kidnapper, Evans prays to God for forgiveness

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="274" data-original-width="412" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT8Wmj3krfwwNDiNwsveFVWETcATEiedOOXXOC3vtzfa2rn9HJFs5mLEyzafk5KchJi1MlUGVIyiMSeLrS43PnUldK6gAapHjuAda4pI-eJtLp6Sa9acMmUZug5wyjNSSnmOG8ehlG6t4_/s640/evans+s.jpg" width="640" /></div> <br /> <br /> A Lagos High Court at Igbosere yesterday heard that suspected billionaire kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans, prayed for God’s forgiveness after his arrest last year in his Magodo, Lagos mansion.<br /> <br /> A police Inspector, Idowu Haruna, told Justice Akintoye Adedayo that Evans was remorseful in police custody.<br /> <br /> “The only thing he (Evans) kept saying was that may God forgive him for his sins because he had kidnapped and killed,” Haruna alleged.<br /> <br /> Haruna’s testimony followed the continuation of proceedings in the fourth and fifth in a series of kidnap, murder and attempted murder charges brought against Evans by the Lagos State Government.<br /> <br /> But only two charges are before Justice Akintoye. Three others are before Justices Hakeem Oshodi and Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Ikeja High Court.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> In the first charge before Justice Taiwo, Evans and three others – Joseph Emeka, Ugochukwu Nwachukwu and Victor Aduba – pleaded not guilty to a five-count charge of conspiracy to kidnap, kidnapping and attempted murder.<br /> <br /> In the second charge, Evans is being tried alongside Joseph Emeka, Linus Okpara and Victor Aduba.<br /> <br /> Earlier, counsel to the first and third defendants, Mr Noel Brown, prayed for an adjournment on the ground that his lead counsel Mr Chino Ogbiagwu SAN, was with the case file.<br /> <br /> But Justice Akintoye denied his application. The judge insisted that the trial should go on, since Brown was part of the defense team and had been present in court since the trial commenced.<br /> <br /> Haruna, the seventh prosecution witness in the second charge, identified himself as a member of the Inspector-General of Police intelligent Response team that caught Evans.<br /> <br /> Testifying during a trial within trial, the witness said he was the officer assigned to record Evans’ statement, so he cautioned the suspect and asked him if he had a lawyer to guide him during the process.<br /> <br /> According to the policeman, who was led in evidence by the state’s Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Titilayo Shitta-Bey, Evans said he didn’t but that he was ready to proceed.<br /> <br /> Evans was not tortured,and volunteered his statement at about 10 am, “in a very conducive environment,” the witness explained.<br /> <br /> Haruna said: “He said he didn’t have any lawyer and that he doesn’t go near lawyers because of what he does.”<br /> <br /> The witness alleged that Evans confessed to owning four AK47 rifles, two pistols and shackles (chains), which he used on his victims, and a Lexus Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) in which he drove his kidnapped victims to his hideout at 21, Prophet Asaje Close, Igando, Lagos.<br /> <br /> Haruna also alleged that Evans told the police that only he negotiated for ransom and also arranged for how to pick up the ransom. He never involved other members of the gang, but that he gave them a small share of the loot.<br /> <br /> He said the first defendant told the police that the fourth defendant Victor Aduba, a serving Army Officer, was used during an operation to deceive the police, so they could be granted free passage to and fro their criminal hideout.<br /> <br /> The defendants, had through their counsel, Mr Noel Brown, Ogedi Ogu and Emmanuel Ochai, told the court that their statements were involuntary and obtained after they were tortured.<br /> <br /> The second defendant Joseph Emeka, in open court told his counsel Ogu, that he was beaten to stupor, before his statement was taken.<br /> <br /> But Haruna, who said the defendants’ statements were taken at the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) office in Ikeja, Lagos, denied the accusation. He said none of them was tortured, nor under duress when they made their statements.<br /> <br /> Justice Adedayo adjourned till November 16, for continuation of trial.

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I’ll remain fair to all Nigerians — Buhari vows

<br /> <br /> President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday in Abuja said that his administration would continue to be fair to all Nigerians.<br /> <br /> He made the remark while receiving a delegation of Bassa Traditional Rulers and Elites led by His Royal Highness, Alhaji Bako Ebiredelu Dogwo, at the Presidential Villa.<br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx6Oag1Zhpllc3r7b6nYZMRbZgfd2wh_sa2quhDmCcp-B8cCOTQTJybqofWGpqcWHlZbMxREm8ZZdME9snCb5DiD03nYgad5AiJHBPxQlSaDsU64XD8d0klvcaO01XOiFIrkxYU65X8_fC/s1600/Buhari-4-231x300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx6Oag1Zhpllc3r7b6nYZMRbZgfd2wh_sa2quhDmCcp-B8cCOTQTJybqofWGpqcWHlZbMxREm8ZZdME9snCb5DiD03nYgad5AiJHBPxQlSaDsU64XD8d0klvcaO01XOiFIrkxYU65X8_fC/s1600/Buhari-4-231x300.jpg" /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Buhari</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> According to him, his administration has ensured even distribution of political appointments to reflect diverse interests across the country, regardless of the voting patterns of the 2015 presidential elections.<br /> <br /> The President in a statement by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said the Nigerian constitution clearly maps out the need for representation in every government, and he had adhered strictly to the tenets of the law.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> He noted that Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Science and Technology, Labour and Employment, and Industry, Trade and Investment emerged from states that he did not record much votes in 2015, but they were given strong portfolios in the cabinet based on their competence.<br /> <br /> Read also: 2019 governorship: Amosun, Okorocha lose out as APC insists on Dapo Abiodun, Uzodinma<br /> “As humanly possible, I have tried to be fair to all. And I am very pleased that in spite of the complaints of technical marginalisation, you have agreed to vote for me in 2019,’’ he said.<br /> <br /> The President assured the delegation that he would look into the issue of poor representation of the Bassa people in government.<br /> <br /> “Thank you for all the nice things you have said about me and the administration. I have taken note that you don’t have leadership in any of the parastatals,’’ he added.<br /> <br /> In his remarks, the leader of the delegation said Bassa people had consistently voted for the President over the years, and “will do it again in 2019’’.<br /> <br /> “You are a great asset to Nigeria. The Bassa nation will use all the resources available to us to ensure you are re-elected in 2019,’’ he said.<br /> <br /> The royal father said the President’s effort at securing the country was commendable, urging him to also sustain the anti-corruption war.<br /> <br /> “We are happy with your administration which is all-inclusive without discrimination. Keep promoting equality,’’ he added.<br /> <br /> He called on the President to reciprocate the affection of the Bassa people, who are spread across Nasarawa, Kogi, Benue, Niger states and FCT, by ensuring that they get fair representation in government.

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Orji Kalu hospitalised in Germany for undisclosed ailment

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh48p10o4PMCClAGciTKx25okX7NFyNNkN5bomWouexJEXi5bzpVHFbHqX183ia1H31CNuNwUB6i9rZoRaaM1iJDxHwDq-SZWUNMpRsNkJMfOPLLOGHDZtzFTRh8Q1MAoOM6GynyaRfkAeG/s1600/Orji-Uzor-Kalu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="650" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh48p10o4PMCClAGciTKx25okX7NFyNNkN5bomWouexJEXi5bzpVHFbHqX183ia1H31CNuNwUB6i9rZoRaaM1iJDxHwDq-SZWUNMpRsNkJMfOPLLOGHDZtzFTRh8Q1MAoOM6GynyaRfkAeG/s1600/Orji-Uzor-Kalu.jpg" /></a></div> <br /> A former governor of Abia State and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, has been hospitalised in Germany.<br /> <br /> Kalu’s media aide, Kunle Oyewunmi, said in a statement on Friday that the ex-governor flew to Germany last Monday for “a major surgery” to address “an undisclosed and life-threatening ailment.”<br /> <br /> He was said to have flown aboard a Lufthansa aircraft accompanied by his wife, Ifunanya. Oyewunmi said upon arrival in Germany, Kalu was on Tuesday rushed in an ambulance to Helios Klinik, Wiesbaden, where he was immediately wheeled into the surgical theatre.<br /> <br /> He quoted Ifunanya as saying that the surgery was successful, adding that the ex-governor had regained consciousness.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> According to the media aide, Ifunanya, in a quavering voice, over the telephone on Friday, lamented her husband’s health status.<br /> <br /> “Although the surgery was successful, my husband will still have to be monitored closely by a medical team for at least four months in order to prevent complications.<br /> <br /> “His condition is improving gradually. He will be fine, if he is able to keep to his doctor’s advice.<br /> <br /> “We appreciate the prayers and kind words from friends, associates, well-wishers and Nigerians in general,” Oyewunmi quoted Ifunanya to have said.

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'Don’t compare Buhari with Atiku'

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYpCOVclcu5zv7b9p5LU2c8xMhtA_DnqiBysBwamraEh7S7qMeZU92UcSmmk7-WHasFtbDQcP0KtYElhc2PGBnAv4-dTmv2xcF4rSvICbJPv6ixsYeOYrc4betxODUbJMH1zZeqsp0DlnV/s1600/atiku+buhari+e.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="412" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYpCOVclcu5zv7b9p5LU2c8xMhtA_DnqiBysBwamraEh7S7qMeZU92UcSmmk7-WHasFtbDQcP0KtYElhc2PGBnAv4-dTmv2xcF4rSvICbJPv6ixsYeOYrc4betxODUbJMH1zZeqsp0DlnV/s320/atiku+buhari+e.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Kwara State, Alhaji Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, on Friday said there was no basis to compare President Muhammadu Buhari with a former Vice President, Abubakar Atiku.<br /> <br /> He was responding to the comment by the presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili.<br /> <br /> Ezekwesili had described the APC and the Peoples Democratic Party as a single party fielding one candidate she termed “Butiku.”<br /> <br /> She had urged Nigerians to reject the two parties’ candidates, no matter their branding, while alleging that Buhari’s government was corrupt.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> But Abdulrazaq said Buhari had made giant strides in repositioning the country and improving the lot of the people.<br /> <br /> Speaking to journalists in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, he claimed that those who constituted a setback for Buhari’s “lofty change agenda” had left APC.<br /> <br /> Abdulrazaq said, “There is no comparison (between Buhari and Atiku). A clear message was sent when the President went to Kaduna on Tuesday. The reception was overwhelming.”

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$5 Million Bribery Video: Kano governor fails to appear before panel

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBXVZjaRAQud_gaEQTLNOAk1nk2RVB1X5ZAuulLBDEyLBexvOs3Xd8N95tOe6J8GfuzmlSJX6pAMC_WcMnkpA68-luVL56jnCz_A6gMbkxo-G85J7ZfNfTcQfuVJNgsP-HrlStw3njYwfx/s1600/Governor+Abdullahi+Ganduje++kano+gov.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="660" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBXVZjaRAQud_gaEQTLNOAk1nk2RVB1X5ZAuulLBDEyLBexvOs3Xd8N95tOe6J8GfuzmlSJX6pAMC_WcMnkpA68-luVL56jnCz_A6gMbkxo-G85J7ZfNfTcQfuVJNgsP-HrlStw3njYwfx/s1600/Governor+Abdullahi+Ganduje++kano+gov.jpg" /></a></div> <br /> The Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, on Friday failed to appear before the state House of Assembly panel probing the $5m bribery allegation levelled against him.<br /> <br /> Instead, the state Commissioner for Information, Youth and Culture, Mallam Mohammed Garba, represented him on the occasion, during which he tendered and read a written statement before the seven-man panel.<br /> <br /> But the state Attorney General, Ibrahim Mukhtar, clarified that the invitation to the governor gave him three options: to come alone; send a proxy; or come along with his lawyer.<br /> <br /> The Chairman of the investigative committee, Baffa Dan-Agundi, later mandated Garba to read the statement before the committee members.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> The commissioner told the panel members that Jafar Jafar, the journalist who published the videos showing Ganduje collecting bribes, was a serial blackmailer.<br /> <br /> Garba recalled Jafar had sometime ago accused a former governor of the state, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, of owning houses in London and Dubai, just as he also accused the Emir of Kano, Mallam Muhammad Sanusi 11, of lacking moral standards.<br /> <br /> The information commissioner said all the bribery allegations reported by Jafar were false, as Ganduje “did not, will not and has not collected any bribe from anybody.”<br /> <br /> In his response, the panel chairman, Dan-Agundi, after reviewing proceedings of its second hearing, said the panel would study the nine video clips tendered by Jafar.<br /> <br /> He therefore adjourned further sitting of the panel to Tuesday, pointing out that the venue would not be made known to members of the public but only to stakeholders and committee members for further deliberations.

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2019: APC vows to defeat Atiku

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuAWjuadIQSmEyJ2BNJpsbNQ91NS27fBaKV6Qu9V-sua9_LFTsZke5Mx600-CdXM1Kbchfgsna0zemIwvF4gPRvpVf8TPiBKCUDDwl2NApCb8Z_UPu9RSQ7ufYdpaKZ3IFd24T0hzkdHBf/s1600/Buhari-atiku+bb.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="412" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuAWjuadIQSmEyJ2BNJpsbNQ91NS27fBaKV6Qu9V-sua9_LFTsZke5Mx600-CdXM1Kbchfgsna0zemIwvF4gPRvpVf8TPiBKCUDDwl2NApCb8Z_UPu9RSQ7ufYdpaKZ3IFd24T0hzkdHBf/s400/Buhari-atiku+bb.png" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> The ruling All Progressives Congress APC has vowed to defeat the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in the next general election.<br /> <br /> The National Chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole made the declaration at a news conference on Friday in Abuja. “We have defeated him before and we will defeat him again”, he said. Oshiomhole added that all the ruling party needed to do was to place side by side the various accusations and counter accusations made between Atiku and his former boss, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.<br /> <br /> “Then, we will leave the rest for Nigerians to decide”. Oshiomhole also spoke on his faceoff with some of the state governors, saying his decision to allow the people have a say in the selection of candidates was his main sin. Ogun APC Aspirant urges members to insist on direct primary On the Supreme Court judgment in Rivers state, Oshiomhole said the party would abide by it and would soon put measures in place to conduct fresh congresses across the state.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br />  The party had earlier announced that in spite of the apex court decision, its candidate for the governorship election remained Mr Tonye Cole. He said; “On the judgment given by the Supreme Court, as a political party, we respect the judiciary, we also appreciate that in truth and in fact, democracy is basically about the celebration of the rule of law and not the rule of might.<br /> <br /> Based on this fact, which is not a choice, we are obliged to respect the the rule of law and at the heart of that is total obedience to the letters and the spirit of judicial findings which are not meant to be convenient. In a democracy, there are orders that need to be obeyed.<br /> <br /> Therefore, the judgment by the Supreme court in which from the first page to the last page, it is very clear that the Supreme court has nullified the ward congresses that were done by my predecessor in Rivers state and also nullified the state and local government congresses that were done in the state because according to the supreme court, those congresses were done in spite of a subsisting court order. What is important is that as things stand, the highest court in the land has pronounced that those congresses did not meet the requirements of the law and are therefore not valid.<br /> <br /> As a law abiding party, we accept the decision of the court and we will call a meeting in no distant future of all the stakeholders in Rivers state to prepare them and to put the necessary machinery in place to conduct fresh ward, local government and state congresses in Rivers in line with the provisions of the constitution of the APC. This we have to do in full obedience to the judgment of the Supreme Court”.

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I wouldn’t have had a military career without WASC cerfiiticate - Buhari

<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="504" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqtil-109BZL-1LX_zZ42q85XS4kRXzIETSEWxZUk_zTxIw74NudIaqx2gYUAi_Gc1Hw6yqZKXA0AGk-SfTqS8MsrpP2lDb_jz05rm523vGnurbzXzNYLl5yPyTtvdDnfH_b3Lzbem3Zi-/s400/BUHARI+SMILE+-3-504x336.jpg" width="400" /></div> <br /> President Muhammadu Buhari says he would not have joined the army if he had not sat for the West African School Certificate (WASC).<br /> <br /> Buhari said this on Friday after Iyi Uwadiale, registrar of the West African Examination Council (WAEC), presented him with a re-issued certificate at the presidential villa in Abuja.<br /> <br /> The document showed that Buhari enrolled for the exams in 1961.<br /> <br /> The president has been under pressure following his failure to submit his credentials to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ahead of the 2019 elections.<br /> <br /> Buhari had said his WASC certificate was with the military board but the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said the president was being economic with the truth, seeking his disqualification from the race.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> After collecting the re-issued certificate from WAEC, Buhari said it was his certificate that enabled him to attend the Defence Services Staff College in India and the United States Army War College.<br /> <br /> ”My colleagues and I who spent close to nine years in boarding school both in primary and secondary, including Gen. Musa Yar’Adua, when we intended to join the military we had to take a military examination,” Buhari said.<br /> <br /> ”We were examined in three subjects, English, Mathematics and General Knowledge because English is the language for general instruction throughout the country because of our colonial heritage.<br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1TG3-NqmHtsFxmLudgzJ-4pHxity4UJgWOXryMkijJyhUZV0PDe42W9CvGbqLf0YKxkKSrA-qOWum9AyGxsKstSRAfAcylN4eZ8LKvtysdgo408RPI7GxSqqhGFEXK10A2pSSyOCP0rRs/s1600/buhari%2527s+certificate.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="587" data-original-width="599" height="391" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1TG3-NqmHtsFxmLudgzJ-4pHxity4UJgWOXryMkijJyhUZV0PDe42W9CvGbqLf0YKxkKSrA-qOWum9AyGxsKstSRAfAcylN4eZ8LKvtysdgo408RPI7GxSqqhGFEXK10A2pSSyOCP0rRs/s400/buhari%2527s+certificate.PNG" width="400" /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /> Uwadiale presenting the certificate to Buhari</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <br /> <br /> ”Mathematics in the military was necessary, coupled with Geography. We were trained how to be dropped off in the bush, given only a pair of compass and since we were not astronomers, you have to learn to find your way, calculate, using the Pythagoras Theorem and others to work out your position.”<br /> <br /> On his part, Uwadiae said the council could issue attestations to those who have lost their certificates.<br /> <br /> ”We don’t issue certificates twice but we can issue attestations or duplicate copy of the certificate. We also have what we refer to as confirmation; usually, universities were using this in those days when Information Technology was not in vogue,” the registrar said.<br /> <br /> ”Whoever sat for WASC exams in whatever year, we have the records in our database, and Mr President, we have the records of the examinations you sat in 1961.”<br /> <br /> Buhari retired as a major-general in the army.

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WATCH VIDEO: WAEC presents school certificate to Buhari

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="587" data-original-width="599" height="626" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIydR1XVRp-XPMksfe31Ulo91aNfN48N8KbDNS5kmBbOuUg44Opq-oADgwPS_zlR-dnr50ihHN-fub251u_KmO7CaYiwreizF-6CBAPgKz3Z0zM0gb1SMdQzJ3sGk1TZ78rz5y4ZWGS3Bb/s640/buhari%2527s+certificate.PNG" width="640" /></div> <br /> <br /> A video of presentation of Letter of Attestation to President Muhammadu Buhari by officials of the West African Examination Council has been posted on the verified Twitter handle of his aide, Bashir Ahmad.<br /> <br /> See the video of President Buhari being presented both his certificate and Letter of Attestation:<br /> <br /> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"> <div dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">VIDEO: President Muhammadu Buhari has today at the State House, Abuja, received the attestation and confirmation of his 1961 West African School Certificate (WASC) Examination result, from the Registrar of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC). <a href="https://t.co/HeUGbdLU38">pic.twitter.com/HeUGbdLU38</a></div> — Bashir Ahmad (@BashirAhmaad) <a href="https://twitter.com/BashirAhmaad/status/1058403839680888832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"> </script><br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br />

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Buhari, Tinubu meet in Aso Rock

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU8SbyO6WgZpKIu4OJQw_mINj3NazKmIj1EL0ynyCHidHLcHxQj7Ds49o-vmg2XWw9lLKEdnf05oJq0wIyENsfavNfIN-cKxKRWi96yqI815rZZuSLqOnBIpS1JQzBmd4wdWXLeI6_KHys/s1600/Buhari-and-Tinubu-2-600x470.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="600" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU8SbyO6WgZpKIu4OJQw_mINj3NazKmIj1EL0ynyCHidHLcHxQj7Ds49o-vmg2XWw9lLKEdnf05oJq0wIyENsfavNfIN-cKxKRWi96yqI815rZZuSLqOnBIpS1JQzBmd4wdWXLeI6_KHys/s400/Buhari-and-Tinubu-2-600x470.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday met behind closed doors with the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.<br /> <br /> Newsmen report that Tinubu had on Oct. 31 paid similar visit to the State House and dismissed the call for the resignation of the national chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiohmole, saying party supremacy must be respected.<br /> <br /> According to the APC national leader, Oshiohmole has so far not violated APC constitution or engaged in any anti-party activity that will warrant his resignation or removal from office.<br /> <br /> Tinubu’s comments on Oshiohmole have continued to attract comments from some aggrieved members of the APC including Gov. Rochas Okorocha, who spoke to State House correspondents on Thursday after he met with President Buhari at the State House.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Okorocha, who reacted to Tinubu’s approval of Oshiomhole’s leadership style, urged that the national chairman be called to order to respect the rule of law, do the right and respect court orders. Tinubu, however, declined to comment on the matter after his meeting on Friday with the president.

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Trump back-tracks on threat to shoot immigrants

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipHIEj99sC056Zh_lgHHyPAQBYIy5OahJcQNc-9oIxs9LGw5kRJlFv_2kP6anH6IMzIYlV6AKI_CdaXR0XXBq7j_EFQGJMC7e4AHSYQBmvqN7qk5_BubFx1bNCw3Kz0pIWnt8qHeFV_8XH/s1600/trump+e.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="382" data-original-width="393" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipHIEj99sC056Zh_lgHHyPAQBYIy5OahJcQNc-9oIxs9LGw5kRJlFv_2kP6anH6IMzIYlV6AKI_CdaXR0XXBq7j_EFQGJMC7e4AHSYQBmvqN7qk5_BubFx1bNCw3Kz0pIWnt8qHeFV_8XH/s1600/trump+e.png" /></a></div> <br /> President Donald Trump pulled back Friday on his previous threat to have soldiers shoot migrants who throw stones at the Mexican-US border.<br /> <br /> “I didn’t say shoot,” he said. “They won’t have to fire. What I don’t want, I don’t want these people throwing rocks.”<br /> <br /> Instead, Trump told journalists at the White House, stone-throwing migrants or people asking for refugee status on the southern border are “going to be arrested for a long time.”<br /> <br /> During a Thursday speech on his bid to crack down on illegal immigration, Trump was asked how thousands of troops he has ordered to the border would react if stones were thrown at them.<br /> <br /> He responded that stone throwing would be seen as a lethal threat.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “We’re not going to put up with that. They want to throw rocks at our military, our military fights back,” he said.<br /> <br /> “I told them (troops) consider it (a rock) a rifle. When they throw rocks like they did at the Mexican military and police, I say consider it a rifle.”<br /> <br /> Trump has ramped up the rhetoric daily ahead of next Tuesday’s midterm congressional elections, accusing the opposition Democrats of wanting to throw open the borders to floods of “tough people,” “rapists” and other types of threats.<br /> <br /> (AFP)

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Man who committed suicide via Third mainland bridge identified

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTGT-mV4ucxuao3bXQmLMUVgab6etpz1jr2cv2l4-fxRirDC2oz6sP81BIptY1rrNoLKvwUUbG4XJGByqtPWMaoacaNE-0-_KoIa7ONViPEOjJaZcN8YB5iUTEv5M2l9iMdCPe31kfVPZb/s1600/Third-Mainland-Bridge+3rd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="292" data-original-width="480" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTGT-mV4ucxuao3bXQmLMUVgab6etpz1jr2cv2l4-fxRirDC2oz6sP81BIptY1rrNoLKvwUUbG4XJGByqtPWMaoacaNE-0-_KoIa7ONViPEOjJaZcN8YB5iUTEv5M2l9iMdCPe31kfVPZb/s400/Third-Mainland-Bridge+3rd.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> The man who got drown after he reportedly jumped into the lagoon in Lagos on Friday has been identified as a staff of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN).<br /> <br /> A staff of FRCN, who pleaded anonymity, said that the deceased was a driver attached to an Assistant Director in charge of Information Communication Technology unit of the corporation.<br /> <br /> The source said that the deceased was newly posted from the FRCN Training School located in Shogunle to the Broadcasting House in Ikoyi, Lagos<br /> <br /> The source, however, described him as a gentleman.<br /> <br /> Tunji Disu, Commander of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), told NAN that his men got to the scene almost immediately and invited marine police and local divers who recovered the corpse from the lagoon.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “The deceased parked the vehicle he was driving on the Third Mainland Bridge and told other occupants of the vehicle that he wanted to urinate<br /> <br /> “The occupants were shocked as he dived into the lagoon,” said RSS Commander, Disu, Assistant Commissioner of Police. RRS had earlier tweeted on its tweeter handle @rrslagos767: “A man has jumped into the Lagoon from 3rd Mainland Bridge.<br /> <br /> “RRS riders got to the scene almost immediately and radioed for assistance from the Marine Police, LASG rescue Boats & local divers who recovered the corpse.<br /> <br /> “The remains have been taken to Ebute Ero division.’’<br /> <br /> NAN recalls that on Oct. 3, 2018, a middle-aged man drowned after reportedly jumping into the lagoon from the Third Mainland Bridge inwards Lagos Island.

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Man City star De Bruyne ruled out for six weeks

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4cuyg_JLXSS_77cpO-R6P9KoheI_kKc9HONwsMkF-XCuuFDWRWnxuCp47WjWLS-SAt574uW8VLrDhKlsXbsGs4nc48SqCz0hiAj5lVAwBn0x7aNZ35_NzzTELvl2GdUUEtHVwc6Jo_RzN/s1600/debruyne.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4cuyg_JLXSS_77cpO-R6P9KoheI_kKc9HONwsMkF-XCuuFDWRWnxuCp47WjWLS-SAt574uW8VLrDhKlsXbsGs4nc48SqCz0hiAj5lVAwBn0x7aNZ35_NzzTELvl2GdUUEtHVwc6Jo_RzN/s320/debruyne.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> Kevin De Bruyne will be sidelined for up to six weeks after the Manchester City star suffered knee ligament damage in Thursday’s League Cup win against Fulham.<br /> <br /> De Bruyne limped off in the closing minutes of City’s 2-0 victory at the Etihad Stadium after falling awkwardly in a clash with Timothy Fosu-Mensah.<br /> <br /> The 27-year-old had scans on Friday that revealed the left knee injury is serious enough that he is unlikely to be back in action until mid-December, although he does not require surgery.<br /> <br /> De Bruyne only recently returned from another knee problem that forced him to miss two months this season, limiting the Belgium international to five appearances.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> His absence during a busy period is a major blow for Premier League leaders City, who face crucial Champions League fixtures, the Manchester derby and a trip to Chelsea before De Bruyne is likely to be fit.<br /> <br /> “Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne suffered knee ligament damage in his left knee during Thursday night’s Carabao Cup fourth-round win over Fulham,” a statement on City’s website said.<br /> <br /> “The Belgian underwent scans on Friday at the CFA. No surgery is needed but he is expected to be out for between 5-6 week</div>

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Army begins ‘Operation Crocodile Smile III’ in Rivers, Delta, Bayelsa, A/Ibom states

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifIrcEsVlmsClJzVL22MJMd3zy_Gh0DPNltZllGLIF4-3cxbrW42RxKVKpStv20fdeBHT2p9SmEVkWdzzinJpIrKQJVKZ0m_oEVXdo9Hc31ErGA7L3pYY4GcO-KOr9P_Q063yF1pwSH_or/s1600/Nigerian-soldiers.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifIrcEsVlmsClJzVL22MJMd3zy_Gh0DPNltZllGLIF4-3cxbrW42RxKVKpStv20fdeBHT2p9SmEVkWdzzinJpIrKQJVKZ0m_oEVXdo9Hc31ErGA7L3pYY4GcO-KOr9P_Q063yF1pwSH_or/s320/Nigerian-soldiers.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> The 16 Brigade of the Nigerian Army on Friday commenced `Operation Crocodile Smile III’ exercise across some states of the Niger Delta, to stem the tide of pipeline vandalism in the region.<br /> <br /> Maj.-Gen. Jamil Sarham, the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 6 Division, Port-Harcourt, said the 2018 operation would not be different as officers and soldiers had been advised to abide by the rules.<br /> <br /> Sarham said that professionalism would be showcased during the operation in the states under division — Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers.<br /> <br /> He commended Gov. Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa for providing the needed support to the army and other security agencies in the state.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Sarham assured the general public that the navy and army would be peaceful during the conduct of the operation.<br /> <br /> Also speaking, Brig.-Gen. Kevin Aligbe, the Commander, 16 Brigade, Nigerian Army in Yenagoa, said the operation was being conducted under the directive of the Army Chief of Staff.<br /> <br /> Aligbe said that the Brigade had visited two Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDPs) camps in Igbogene and donated relief materials sent from headquarters.<br /> <br /> “In line with the Army Headquarters Training Directive for Year 2018, we have commenced preparations that started on Oct. 22, with multi-agency show of force within Yenagoa metropolis and beyond.<br /> <br /> “Today, we have gathered here at the second army headquarters Nembe for the flag-off of our engagement to dominate the water.<br /> <br /> “In doing so, we are very much aware of the expectations of the GOC, Chief of Army Staff and the general public of our conduct during period of operation.”<br /> <br /> He said that at the end of the exercise, they would want to achieve success in order to undertake future tasks and challenges as the yuletide season approaches.<br /> <br /> In his remarks, the Bayelsa governor urged the public to support and collaborate with the army to achieve the aim of the operation.<br /> <br /> Represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr Kemela Okara, Dickson described the army as a very critical component of the country, especially in the area of security.</div>

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Despite FG travel ban, Orji Kalu travels to Germany

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisg8T59MTncpRc_yK9iIBF7lpzPu2DlyETBk4Re2DJrtLH_Ub4OtRyyuzBVPP8n6AK8NMAKHjkvFRTKg_WsAuMnw6ed6Um1VdB5w2-uw1a67swgjj_i2dqIRO_zxeexUOtiRyfI-5GljS_/s1600/Orji+Uzor+Kalu.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisg8T59MTncpRc_yK9iIBF7lpzPu2DlyETBk4Re2DJrtLH_Ub4OtRyyuzBVPP8n6AK8NMAKHjkvFRTKg_WsAuMnw6ed6Um1VdB5w2-uw1a67swgjj_i2dqIRO_zxeexUOtiRyfI-5GljS_/s320/Orji+Uzor+Kalu.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> Despite being listed among the 50 high-profile Nigerians barred by the Federal Government from travelling out of the country, a former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, has gone to Germany for surgery.<br /> <br /> Kalu’s media aide, Kunle Oyewunmi, who disclosed this, said his principal left the country on Monday aboard a Lufthansa aircraft.<br /> <br /> Kalu, who is now a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, according to Oyewunmi, left for Wiesbaden, Germany, alongside his wife, Ifunanya.<br /> <br /> The former governor was said to have gone for “a major surgery” to address “an undisclosed and life-threatening ailment.”<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Kalu, alongside his company, Slok Nigeria Limited, and a former Director of Accounts and Finance at the Abia State Government House, Ude Udeogu, are facing N7.65bn fraud charges before the Federal High Court in Lagos.<br /> <br /> The 11-year-old case was in September adjourned sine die (indefinitely) by Justice Mohammed Idris, who had been elevated to the Court of Appeal.<br /> <br /> The fate of the case remains unclear.<br /> <br /> In a statement made available to our correspondent on Friday, Oyewunmi said Kalu was rushed in an ambulance to Helios Klinik, Wiesbaden, Germany on Tuesday and was immediately wheeled into the surgical theatre.<br /> <br /> Oyewunmi quoted Kalu’s wife, Ifunanya, as saying that the surgery was successful, adding that the ex-governor had regained consciousness.<br /> <br /> According to the media aide, Ifunanya, in a quavering voice, over the telephone on Friday, “lamented her husband’s health status”.<br /> <br /> “Although the surgery was successful, my husband will still have to be monitored closely by a medical team for at least four months in order to prevent complications.<br /> <br /> “His condition is improving gradually.<br /> <br /> “He will be fine, if he is able to keep to his doctor’s advice.<br /> <br /> “We appreciate the prayers and kind words from friends, associates, well-wishers and Nigerians in general,” Oyewunmi quoted Ifunanya to have said.</div>

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EFCC files fresh charges against ex-DG NIMASA, Akpobolokemi and 6 others

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg04O4FSFtgUfJMhCPKtY_GVE1L9I31r2kLtRLyqfzTVe4TUM2OQ9alaqHgMtfenvBSdzxWXU5fQ3sdHAPESCHAqIYPJn27ohUb-EybWIB9ca07NbH0sLnJiLXIJoNu6OQyUlUBjV_f0U4G/s1600/efcc+2.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg04O4FSFtgUfJMhCPKtY_GVE1L9I31r2kLtRLyqfzTVe4TUM2OQ9alaqHgMtfenvBSdzxWXU5fQ3sdHAPESCHAqIYPJn27ohUb-EybWIB9ca07NbH0sLnJiLXIJoNu6OQyUlUBjV_f0U4G/s400/efcc+2.jpg" /></a></div> The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday filed fresh charges against Patrick Akpobolokemi, former Director-General (DG), Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and six others before an Ikeja High Court, Lagos.<br /> <br /> Akpobolokemi  is charged alongside Ezekiel Agaba, Ekene Nwakuche, Governor Juan, Vincent Udoye, Adegboyega Olopoenia and a company, Gama Marine Nigeria Ltd.<br /> <br /> They were initially charged with 13-count charge bordering on stealing and fraud over alleged theft of N754.8 million belonging to the agency.<br /> <br /> In the old 13-count charge, the defendants were alleged to have, between Oct. 30, 2014 and May 6, 2015, converted N754.8 million belonging to NIMASA to their personal use.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> The funds were allegedly released to the defendants for the implementation of Voluntary International Maritime Organisation Member State Audit Scheme (VIMSAS).<br /> <br /> The EFCC also alleged that the defendants knowingly forged a document titled, “Re: Request for Payment as consultant for VIMSAS Administration Services”, dated May 25, 2015 purported to have been issued by Arrow World Consulting Ltd.<br /> <br /> The offences were said to have contravened the provisions of Sections 285 and 409 of the Criminal Code Laws of Lagos State 2011.<br /> <br /> Mr Rotimi Oyedepo, EFCC lead counsel, informed the court that the anti-graft agency had filed fresh charges against the defendants, noting that they should be re-arraigned and have their plea taken.<br /> <br /> The EFCC, however, did not reveal details of the fresh charges.<br /> <br /> The defence counsel to Agaba, Mr E. D. Onyeke, however, requested for more time to examine the new charges and to advice his client accordingly.<br /> <br /> “The prosecution has not afforded us the opportunity to view the list of new prosecution witnesses, who, somewhere along the line, will come here to give evidence. I need to be well informed.<br /> <br /> “I request that we be given time to look at the amended charge, so that I will advise my client and the defendants will take their plea,” said Onyeke.<br /> <br /> Agreeing with Onyeke’s submission, Oyedepo said, “My lord, he should be given time. it is in the interest of justice. The application of the defence is meritorious.<br /> <br /> “When we come back on Monday, the defendants will be arraigned, their plea taken and we will proceed with trial.”<br /> <br /> Acceding to the requests of the prosecuting and defence counsel, Justice Raliatu Adebiyi adjourned the case until Nov. 5 for re-arraignment and continuation of trial.</div>

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I should be commended for all I have achieved for Nigerians, says Buhari

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLpwJn5y9F_1Ouyc_PsRqTc55UY-YwARrOqYKqNuLbBsyTj12W2U5FcnlZO7KdO08mtU4esRIDeZDZuZ6BFOcKw68-PuN1WyEi4vVhux5hEBkXKV5y8GNw_MD1yJ3m6cg34NVPCv-yvrzC/s1600/President+Muhammadu+Buhari.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLpwJn5y9F_1Ouyc_PsRqTc55UY-YwARrOqYKqNuLbBsyTj12W2U5FcnlZO7KdO08mtU4esRIDeZDZuZ6BFOcKw68-PuN1WyEi4vVhux5hEBkXKV5y8GNw_MD1yJ3m6cg34NVPCv-yvrzC/s320/President+Muhammadu+Buhari.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> President Muhammadu Buhari, Friday, felt disappointed over the delay in passage of budget by the National Assembly, not as he demanded commendations from Nigerians for the little he was able to achieve.<br /> <br /> Buhari was quoted by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, when he received a delegation of Eminent and Respected citizens of Niger State led by Lt. Gen. Garba Duba (Rtd) at the Presidential Villa as saying that the government’s achievements in ensuring better roads, rails, power and repositioning of the airports was in spite of the delays in the passage of budget, and prayed for more understanding and commitment to infrastructural development.<br /> <br /> “If the National Assembly takes seven months to pass a budget, then we should be commended for the much that we have achieved, and can still achieve.<br /> <br /> “I personally feel very disappointed. I spoke with the leaders of the National Assembly on the issue that seven months is a long time to work on a budget,’’ he said.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> The President said ongoing efforts to improve road, and rail networks across the country will be increased as infrastructural development remains paramount for improving the livelihood of Nigerians.<br /> <br /> FG calls for synergy with Africans in diaspora to grow investment at home<br /> <br /> President Buhari told the delegation, which includes Governor Abubakar Sani Bello, military and traditional leaders, that his administration will pay more attention to the stretch of 2,150km federal roads in the state.<br /> <br /> On security, he said, “we cannot manage our communities and societies without security. A lot of resources is being diverted to provide security instead of going into infrastructural development.’’<br /> <br /> The President re-assured the delegation that his administration will stay focused on securing lives and property, fighting corruption and stimulating the economy for more progress.<br /> <br /> President Buhari said the Minister of Agriculture and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria had been directed to increase monetary supports, through loans, to farmers in the next farming season, and ensure that farmers are not overwhelmed with the traditional demand for collaterals.<br /> <br /> “Traditional institutions and families can serve as guarantors because we cannot continue with that colonial style of asking for collaterals that people don’t have,’’ he added.<br /> <br /> The President commended the Chinese government for accepting to finance 85 per cent of Nigeria’s infrastructural development need.<br /> <br /> “I thank you so much for coming. It is a good morale booster for me and the country that a State will bring a strong delegation to show appreciation for our efforts,’’ he said.<br /> <br /> I came back to power with ‘Agbada’ to convince Nigerians to make sacrifices- Buhari<br /> <br /> In his remarks, the leader of the delegation, Lt. Gen. Duba, who is a former military governor, commended the President for the significant stride in repositioning of roads, rails and airports across the country.<br /> <br /> He said Niger State still faced challenges of security along Jebba-Mokwa-Birnin Gwari-Kaduna roads, urging the President to reinforce surveillance on the routes and also direct more attention on the construction of federal roads in the state.<br /> <br /> The Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar, who is also the Chairman of the Niger State Council of Traditional Rulers, commended the President for providing exemplary leadership for the country.</div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicDH_2CHR9KwQTMCbY-7zMER4_RrF4kzbYAb2nV-yRfUDLUoVRkw4EoX1N_OaVams-3Bn2-FnHg7pPRwAZD4lP9H_aLPeAlSbdA-hfksQndI0BQhyphenhyphenX2BwXm4DdUTdddKuJfjmn_mbskMPy/s1600/Court-Management.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="486" data-original-width="842" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicDH_2CHR9KwQTMCbY-7zMER4_RrF4kzbYAb2nV-yRfUDLUoVRkw4EoX1N_OaVams-3Bn2-FnHg7pPRwAZD4lP9H_aLPeAlSbdA-hfksQndI0BQhyphenhyphenX2BwXm4DdUTdddKuJfjmn_mbskMPy/s320/Court-Management.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> After three years of legal battle over a legislative seat in the Benue State House of Assembly, the Appeal Court in Makurdi on Friday gave judgment in favour of Joseph Boko and ordered the immediate sack of Benjamin Nungwa, the occupant of the seat.<br /> <br /> The News Agency of Nigeria reports that both Boko and Nungwa contested the All Progressives Congress primary of Kwande West legislative seat in the state house of assembly in April 2015 , which was won by Boko.<br /> <br /> Dissatisfied with the conduct of the primary , Nungwa , sent a petition concerning the outcome of the primary to the APC National Secretariat for arbitration.<br /> <br /> NAN reports that an Arbitration Panel was set up by the National Working Committee of the party to resolve the disputed primary election.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> The appellant, who dragged Nungwa, the Independent Electoral Commission and joined the APC in the matter , had averred that the said panel , which claimed to have held sittings in Makurdi , never invited him but took decisions from its purported sittings that had adverse effects on him.G<br /> <br /> He , therefore , prayed the court to declare that the panel was not competent to sit since it was not in the first instance , properly constituted.<br /> <br /> Boko averred that the panel had no chairman and secretary and therefore , did not form a quorum to take decisions.<br /> He also argued that by excluding him from its proceedings , his right of fair hearing was infringed upon.<br /> <br /> The appellant also averred that he was properly nominated as the party’ s candidate for the election and prayed the court to order Nungwa to relinquish the seat he was occupying to him.<br /> <br /> Boko had also argued that many weeks after the deadline for substitution of candidates at INEC had already closed , his name was illegally substituted with that of Nungwa.<br /> <br /> The appellant averred that it was his name that was sent to INEC and wondered who authorised the substitution.<br /> <br /> He argued that “After submitting names to the INEC , it is only the candidate himself that can withdraw or it could be withdrawn if he dies ; I did not withdraw my name and I am not dead. ’’<br /> <br /> However, in her judgment , Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court Makurdi , affirmed Nungwa as the APC ’ s candidate and cited the decision of the National Working Committee of the party as the basis.<br /> <br /> Dissatisfied with the judgment , Boko approached the Supreme Court , which after hearing the matter , expunged all cross appeals and motions that were unnecessary to the case and transmitted it back to the Appeal Court with a directive for a speedy retrial on merit.<br /> <br /> In a unanimous judgement , read by Justice Joseph Ekanem and supported by Justice Hannatu Sankey , on Friday in Makurdi , the court overturned the judgment of the Federal High Court , which affirmed Nungwa as the winner of the legislative seat.<br /> <br /> The court , therefore , ordered the immediate sack of Nungwa , who was described as “an illegal occupant of the Kwande West legislative seat’’ .<br /> <br /> The jurists also ordered him to refund all salaries and allowances earned within the three years he occupied the seat in the Benue House of Assembly and granted N200 , 000 costs to the appellant.<br /> <br /> The appellate court resolved three out of five issues brought to it for determination by the appellant in his favour.<br /> <br /> The court resolved that the arbitration panel of the NWC of the APC that claimed to resolve the disputed Kwande West primary was not competent to handle the crises , hence it was not properly constituted.<br /> <br /> It also resolved that the appellant was denied fair hearing since he was not invited to appear before the panel and agreed that the nomination of the appellant was done in accordance with the party’ s procedures.<br /> <br /> NAN reports that Nungwa is currently serving a six -month suspension by the Benue House of Assembly for allegedly plotting to impeach Governor Samuel Ortom.<br /> <br /> Speaking to NAN on the court ’ s verdict , an elated Boko , said he was grateful to God and the judiciary for being the last hope of the ordinary man.<br /> <br /> He regretted the cost of pursuing justice from the Federal High Court through the Supreme Court and appealed for a review of the laws of the courts to allow speedy trials. ” </div>

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