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The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, on Monday declined the request by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, to make an order stopping the Code of Conduct Tribunal from proceeding with his trial.

The Code of Conduct Tribunal had on January 14 fixed January 22 for hearing in the six counts of false assets declaration filed by the Code of Conduct Bureau against Justice Onnoghen.

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), had also filed a motion asking for an order directing Onnoghen to step down as the CJN pending the conclusion of his planned trial before the CCT.

Two non-govermental organisations – Centre for Justice and Peace Initiative; and International Association of Students – had approached the Federal High Court in Abuja, praying for orders quashing the charges against the CJN.

In response to the NGOs, Justice Evelyn Maha of the Federal High Court, Abuja had last week issued two separate orders directing that status quo should be maintained in Justice Onnoghen’s case before the CCT.

In furtherance of the steps to stop the CJN’s proposed arraignment before the CCT, his lawyers, led by Chief Adegnoyega Awomolo (SAN), went before the Court of Appeal on Monday wanting to obtain another restraining order against the CCT.

Awomolo told a three-man Court of Appeal panel led by Justice Abdu Aboki, that the restraining order was necessary to preserve the subject matter of the case at the CCT.

But Federal Government’s counsel, Emmanuel Omonuwa, said he was only served with the court process by Justice Onnoghen’s legal team on Monday morning and he needed at least three days to reply.

After a short deliberation among themselves, the three Justices of the appeal court declined granting Awomolo’s prayer to halt the CCT proceedings against the CJN.

“We are of the view that no form of order shall be made at his stage pending hearing of motion on notice adjourned till January 24,” the panel ruled.

However, the National Industrial Court in Abuja reaffirmed its last week interim order stopping the CCT proceedings against the CJN.

The industrial court gave the restraining order in a suit filed by a lawyer, Peter Abang.

On Monday, Justice Sanusi Kado of the NIC reinforced the restraining order following an ex parte application moved by Abang’s counsel, James Igwe (SAN), who said he was having difficulty serving the court papers personally on CCT Chairman, Danladi Umar.

The judge directed that all the parties in the suit before him should not take any step that could destroy the substance of the case pending the hearing and determination of the claimant’s motion for interlocutory injunction.

Joined as respondents in the suit before Justice Kado are CCT Chairman, Attorney General of the Federation; Inspector-General of Police; Senate President; the Federal Judicial Service Commission; National Judicial Council and the Code of Conduct Bureau.

At the Monday proceedings before the NIC, only the NJC was represented by its lawyer, Dr Garba Tetengi (SAN).

Meanwhile, there are indications that the Justice Onnoghen may again not appear before the CCT on the next adjourned date.

One of the lawyers on the CJN’s defence team confided in our correspondent that the preliminary objection filed against the charges must be dispensed with before any step could be taken in the matter.

“The CJN will not appear before the court. We have filed a preliminary objection to the charges. The status must be determined and that will determine the next step on the matter,” the counsel said.

Also on Monday, the National Chairman of the Action Peoples Party, Ikenga Ugochinyere, told journalists in Abuja that his party had obtained a fresh order from the Federal High Court, restraining the Federal Government from removing Justice Onnoghen as the CJN.

According to the copies of the interim order made available to journalists by Ugochinyere, the order was made against President Muhammadu Buhari, the Attorney General of the Federation, Onnoghen, Justice Ibrahim Tanko, the Code of Conduct Bureau and the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal.
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The Nigeria Police Force has snubbed an order of a Federal Capital Territory High Court which granted Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye, bail.

It was gathered that the police refused to release the lawmaker on Monday despite the fact that Melaye had fulfilled the bail conditions.

Our correspondent learnt that the FCT Commissioner of Police, who was served the bail order, declined to release the senator.

Findings showed that the police had filed fresh nine charges against the embattled lawmaker and one Silas Omenka.

The charge dated January 14, 2019,was co-signed by Kehinde Oluwole, Malik Taiwo and Seyi Otunla, all of the force legal office, Abuja.

Melaye was accused of illegal obstruction of lawful arrest, resisting arrest and accusing the erstwhile Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, of planning to “inject him to death.”

One of the charges read in part, “That you Senator Dino Melaye, 45years, representing Kogi West… at about 11am, at your residence… inform the public on Twitter that the police detectives are trying to plant guns in your cars outside, an information you know to be false… thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 392 of the Penal Code.”
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has urged Nigerians to vote massively to re-elect President Muhammadu Buhari in the February 16 presidential election.

He described Buhari as an honest person, who would do whatever he promised to do.

Osinbajo said this on Friday, at the palace of the Olufon of Ifon in the Ose Local Government Area of the state during a house-to-house campaign which he led.

The vice president said Buhari was not corrupt and the person who would rebuild the nation, saying corruption was a major hindrance to the development of any nation.

He said, “Buhari is a truthful man and will do something if he says so. He built three of our refineries in four years. The development of Nigeria is a major concern to us. We all know what happened when we first got here. No country can develop when corruption is too much.

“This forthcoming election is particularly important to us because it is not all the time we have a representative in government, but when we have one, we should support that one to have more development.

“Our school feeding programmed feeds 9.2 million children daily. Whatever we have promised, we will do one by one. The railway, roads, water and power promised in the South-West will be done.”

The Ondo State governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, thanked the vice president for coming to Ifon for the first time. He expressed the confidence that the APC would win the coming election.

He urged the people of the state to vote massively for the party during the elections.

“As you are here today, the people have seen you with us. It has great impact and it is more than any rally we could have organised. We are the same family and we see ourselves as one. I am happy we started in Ifon. A lot of things started in Ifon. It is part of the three key areas of Ondo State,” Akeredolu stated.
Earlier, the Olufon of Ifon, Oba Israel Adeusi, explained that there had been development since the inception of the present administration of the APC.
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Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, has said President Muhammadu Buhari is the best among the presidential candidates jostling to rule Nigeria.

The governor said Buhari was the only one, who could fight insecurity and address infrastructural decay which characterised the nation before he assumed office in 2015.

Ambode said this in an interview with journalists in Kaduna after the All Progressives Congress presidential rally held at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium.

In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Habib Aruna, Ambode urged Nigerians to support the APC candidate in the presidential election taking place on February 16, assuring them Buhari would take the nation to the next level of development if re-elected.

Ambode said, “The choice before Nigerians is simple: to go back to the days of corruption, infrastructural decay and insecurity or continue with the trajectory of infrastructural development, steady anti-corruption war and the constant fight against territorial threats. This is what the Buhari and Osinbajo ticket represents.

“They have initiated social inclusion policies and constructed critical infrastructure across the federation which is gradually bringing back the nation’s economy in the right path and giving Nigerians a real sense of belonging. This is the way we want to go and Nigerians have shown that this is where they are going.

“What we saw in Kaduna was unprecedented; just look at the crowd and the way they came out in droves. The passion, the trust and support that the Nigerian people have for Buhari is unrivalled and iconic. People just love Buhari; they trust him because he has performed well in the last three and a half years. Together with the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, they have delivered on their electoral promises and what is in the APC manifesto.”

He urged supporters of the party to remain focused and not to be distracted by what he described as a campaign of calumny of the opposition parties, saying Buhari had remained focused to deliver a new Nigeria that would take its rightful place among the comity of nations.

“We are not deterred by all the false narratives the opposition is spreading. We would rather focus on the issues and these issues are basically on how to make the lives of Nigerians better.

“You can see for yourselves, the people have seen that President Buhari is a man of integrity that they can trust and that is why it is important that he continues. He promised change which he has fulfilled and the next level is to consolidate on that change on the policies he has introduced and implemented,” he said.
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The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State, Mr Jimi Agbaje, on Saturday said he was worried over the alleged plan by the ruling All Progressives Congress to use security agents to intimidate voters in the coming election.

He said he did not entertain much fear over vote buying in Lagos State, adding that with the state’s huge population, it would be an expensive project.

Agbaje, while speaking in an interview with journalists in Lagos, explained that the major concern was not vote buying, but alleged intimidation of voters by security agents.

The PDP governorship candidate, however, requested the Independent National Electoral Commission to ensure that polling booths were protected in order to give privacy to the voters during the elections.

Agbaje said, “My fears are not so much on vote buying because it is a large population and any person who wants to buy votes in Lagos means that he has emptied the treasury in terms of the number and what would swing the voters generally in terms of the numbers would be a very expensive venture.

“What you find is that there might be a deliberate act to crowd the area where people vote so that you don’t know which party is being voted for.”
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National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, has said Nigeria’s future is not in the hands of retired generals but the electorate.

Oshiomhole also said retired generals and ex-heads of state were against the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari.

He spoke on Saturday during the APC Presidential Campaign held at the Minna International Fair, Niger State.

The APC chairman said that there was a plan to replay what occurred when Buhari was the military head of state and was removed because of his strict stance against graft.

He said, “Many of the retired generals are against President Buhari that he will not rule for eight years while they did more than eight years.

“I remember that they did it in the past but this time, the plan will not work. The future of Nigeria is not in the hands of retired generals or former heads of state. It is in the hands of the general people.”

Oshiomhole also accused the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, of mismanagement public funds, adding that “during President Olusegun Obasanjo’s era, Atiku as his deputy, took N16bn from the country’s account and shared it amongst private individuals.

“If Atiku had seen the crowd in Kaduna and Bauchi states that welcomed us, he would prefer to remain in the United States of America.”

He alleged that Atiku was working with Obasanjo to rig the elections, saying, “Everywhere PDP goes, it says the elections will be rigged. We need to play the videos of where Obasanjo and Atiku said the election must be won by the PDP.”

Oshiomhole noted that the APC didn’t need to rig any election because it remained a firm believer of one man, one vote.

In his address, Buhari, urged the people of Niger State to vote for him and other candidates of his party, pledging to complete all the roads across the state.

Also, the state party Chairman, Jibrin Imam, promised the President that the state would give him 101 per cent votes.
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Chief Sehinde Arogbofa is the Secretary-General of the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere. He speaks with PETER DADA on the state of the nation and the forthcoming general elections, among other issues

Why has Afenifere come under severe attacks from different groups in recent time?

The Yoruba race is highly sophisticated and we expect people to have different opinions about issues. But in Afenifere, we are not bothered because we see it as a form of civilisation among our people. If you look at the name Afenifere, it will certainly provoke some jealousy or even anger. Many people don’t remember how the name came about. Afenifere means somebody who loves their neighbour. Others may feel angry; we don’t have any problem with that. But the group did not start with the name Afenifere. It was a way of popularising the Action Group among the Yoruba-speaking people so that they would properly understand the mission of the Action Group – a welfarist party. Afenifere is a welfarist group. We did not start with the name Afenifere; it was a popular man, who later turned against Afenifere that called it Afenifere. I have to give this background so that you will know what is really happening.

Attacking Afenifere did not start today. It has been a victim of attacks within its fold. If you remember what happened during the Action Group crisis, especially after the demise of the late sage, Obafemi Awolowo, more problems started coming up – some personal, some out of prejudice, even amongst members struggling for leadership positions. It was still better during the time of Papa Adekunle Ajasin. We had a situation where even among the leaders, splinter groups started coming up such as the Yoruba Council of Elders, when it became apparent that some people, under Afenifere, could not work with others. Not too long ago, we had the Yoruba Unity Forum, with some Afenifere members attending their meetings. It was formed to advance the Yoruba cause. They are still functioning; but how far have they gone?

Don’t you see this development as fractionalising your group?

Our group has not been fractionalised per se.

What about the Pa Ayo Fasanmi’s group?

Pa Ayo Fasanmi is one of our highly respected Yoruba leaders. We have respect for his age and experience in life. We have no issue with him. If he says he is a leader, he has to defend his leadership; where he got his own leadership, and how his own leadership emerged. Nowadays, we have leaders but Afenifere has its history of leaders. It has its succession plans for its leaders. We have just one leader at a time. It is like a monarchy; we don’t have a deputy monarch and we don’t have two monarchs on a throne. There is even a process through which a monarch emerges. In the case of Afenifere, it is being led by Chief Reuben Fasoranti. The late Chief Awolowo was our first leader. After his death, the mantle of leadership fell on Papa Ajasin, who held the baton well, except a few dissenting voices, which is normal in any case. But when he died, the mantle of leadership fell on another great Afenifere chieftain, Senator Abraham Adesanya. He held the forth very well in his own style. Every one of them had their style of leadership. When Papa Adesanya was sick, and going to functions was becoming a problem for him, the chieftains had to put their heads together and advised him to proclaim Chief Fasoranti as his successor. Senator Fasanmi was alive. Why did he not challenge the leadership then? Why now, after almost two decades? That is why some of us have strong feelings that there is something fishy? It appears that as good as the man is, he is allowing himself to be used. Afenifere is one; but we do not pretend not to see those that are moving away. We can’t stop them; they have the right to move away. We have those that had moved away and have come back.

Some groups have also accused you of maginalising the Muslims in the group. What is your reaction to this?

That is not true. We have many Muslims among us. If you come to our meeting in Akure, we pray both in the Christian and Muslim ways. Our doors are open to anybody irrespective of their religious or political affiliations. In as much as you are a Yoruba person, you are welcome. We don’t have business with the religion you practise.

Some have said your adoption of Atiku as presidential candidate does not represent the position of the South-West. What is your view on this?

That is their own view. Let me take you back a little. Sometime last year, those who matter among the Yoruba met in Ibadan at the Liberty Stadium. I think we have as many as 50 vibrant groups of the Yoruba extraction. What Afenifere did was to bring them together. The OPC members were there; traditional rulers were represented. People who have some voice in this country like Femi Fani-Kayode were there. They decided that they wanted the country restructured. They passed a resolution. If you failed to attend such meeting, who is to blame? Just of recent, as a follow up to what we did in Ibadan then, we came up with a kind of memorandum on Yoruba expectations for the 2019 presidency. Many groups, though not as large as that of Ibadan, such as Afenifere, YCE and Yoruba Koya, met and came out with the 2019 presidency expectations. Some of which are that there must be an immediate legislative action on restructuring from whoever becomes the president. We also agreed that the Yoruba would like to have visible presence in government, not ‘errand’ appointments. We said we would like a two-tier form of government to reduce waste and make government more functional. We talked about administrative devolution of power. We demand fiscal federalism and of course infrastructure – the roads are bad; our higher institutions are down and others. We talked about security. In this country today, life has become cheap. There must be security for lives and property. If there are Yoruba people who don’t want all these, then they are the people attacking us.

The presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar, is not contesting the first time. Why the support for him now?

In the past when he came to pay homage to the leaders of the group, he was an aspirant then. We said you could only adopt a candidate of a party, not an aspirant. It is only the APC (All Progressives Congress) that had one aspirant who later became the candidate. But in the PDP (Peoples Democratic Party), we had many aspirants until a candidate emerged. I did say then that if Atiku succeeded in becoming the candidate, we would give him a serious look; that we would compare him with others that are available. If President Muhammadu Buhari had come, we would welcome him as a Nigerian. Before he became president, Afenifere had met him twice or more. We met him in Lagos around 2011. We also met him in Ibadan. In our meeting with him in Lagos, he did tell us that he would be a democratic leader, not a dictator, judging by his background. We said we would give him our support but unfortunately, he could not make it then. If he had come, we would have talked to him and asked him questions based on his plans. We want to talk to our president not by proxy. Atiku came and we asked him questions. For instance, we would have asked him (Buhari) about the issue of state police. We did not see him to tell him all these and you want us to just support him like that?

On the issue of security, we have suggested many things that will solve the problem in the short term. We have not seen him. Some people are standing between him and us. He has not even invited us for any dialogue.

Atiku came. He said he would restructure this country. We asked him how he would do it. He mentioned the issue of state police and a lot of things. He said he would look at the 2014 Confab report. I was a member of that conference and we had 600 resolutions. But our President said he had no business with it (report).

Do you fear Atiku could deviate from his promises if he eventually becomes the president?

I heard some people say Buhari and Atiku are 3×4 equals to 6×2. Those who argue that way sometime don’t remember the background of each of them. They may have come from the same tribe. Both of them are Fulani. But each of them has their background – one has a military background. Like I said earlier, you can easily reach Atiku, but you can’t easily reach Buhari. The issue of accessibility is very important. If you have any problem at any time, you must be able to reach your leader, not by a proxy. When people talk of corruption, they say Buhari is not corrupt, but Atiku is corrupt. Where are the corrupt people in the last government? Who is harbouring them now? Is it not the APC? And who is the leader of the APC? Buhari is the leader.

This present government promised us many things such as security. Where is the security now? Only a few days ago, we heard that Katsina State, the home state of the President, was under siege. A governor is crying out saying ‘save my state from destruction; attacks everyday’. In a civilised country, that is enough for such a president to throw in the towel. President Buhari must have been doing his best, but his best is not solving the problem. We need to have a new hand. We need a new approach. If Atiku had been corrupt, he might have seen things to make him change his mind. Why don’t you test such a person?

Why did you settle for Atiku when many other candidates promised restructuring?

In Nigeria, there are certain things you must have before you take an elective position. You must have the money; it’s important. You must have the following. The younger people don’t have the financial muscle.

Some people have urged the Yoruba to support Buhari so that power would come to the region in 2023. What is your view on this?

That is too simplistic. I hope Yoruba people would look back to what happened recently when the PDP was trying to zone some offices. The Yoruba were best positioned to produce the chairman of the party. But what happened over night, it changed. I have my doubts that a Yoruba man will become president in 2023. Many issues will come to play between the Igbo and the Yoruba. The voting power is important. The Yoruba should look back at what happened between Awolowo and Azikwe in the First Republic. Balewa and Azikwe easily came together and Awolowo was edged out despite the understanding formed between Awolowo and Azikwe. In the Second Republic, there was an alliance; the Yoruba man lost out. We are talking about 2023. How are we sure the same scenario will not play out? The 2023 presidency will not depend on the results of the 2019 presidential election alone. Igbo people are already positioned. Yoruba people are trying to position themselves. Has it ever worked out if these people are positioned like this? I don’t know how that will work. What we should be thinking now is how we will get this country restructured; how states will have their police; how resources in the states will be used; how certain percentage of whatever every state has will be sent to the centre and the rest for the development of the state. It will make everybody to work harder.

Do you think the President’s directive that nobody should use the state’s resources to finance elections is achievable?

Elections are here. Let’s credit Buhari for saying it. But achieving it is another thing. Those who are more corrupt are those close to the government machinery; don’t let us deceive ourselves. It is a good thing to say that but I hope it is not a ploy for his people to do other things.
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These new uniforms are reportedly the new official outfits for the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) customs officers which were recently unveiled.

But here is how social media users are reacting to the new uniforms below.

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President Muhammadu Buhari has said his second-term bid was the desire of the national executive of the All Progressives Congress.
Buhari, who spoke during a live presidential town hall at the Ladi Kwali Conference Centre, Sheraton Hotel, Abuja, on Wednesday evening, stated that his re-election bid was aimed at fulfilling the manifesto of his 2015 campaign.
The APC presidential candidate said, “I said it much earlier at the National Executive Committee of our party that if my party recommended me to its executive, I would contest. I did that to save time and wide discussions among members of the party.
“So, those who felt very strongly about it left the party and the party nominated. Why? It is because I felt that the three fundamental objectives we campaigned in 2015 are still relevant.
“We want to remind Nigerians to see when we started — 2015 — where we are now, what we have been able to do in between this time of three and a half years with the resources and time available to us.”
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, also speaking on the party’s presidential mandate, said the President needed another term to consolidate on the gains of his administration.
“We campaigned on three fundamental issues, namely the economy, the fight against corruption and security. In those three respects, we believe that we have laid very strong foundations and I very strongly believe that we are on to much more progress if given a second opportunity.
“I very strongly take the view that the period of three and a half years, in particular, has been one where we have managed to turn around a lot of what was inherited in the previous 16 years.
“The previous 16 years were, in my view, a period during which a lot of revenue came in and very little appeared to have been done. We believe the foundations we’ve laid in agriculture and infrastructure really deserve a second term for completion,” Osinbajo said.
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UEFA has begun disciplinary proceedings against Chelsea following alleged anti-Semitic chanting during the club’s Europa League match at Hungarian club Vidi last month, European football’s governing body announced on Tuesday.

A vocal minority of Chelsea fans were heard singing a derogatory chant about Tottenham supporters, featuring anti-Semitic language, during the 2-2 draw at the Groupama Arena in Budapest.

“In relation to the alleged racist incidents that occurred at the afore-mentioned match, UEFA has announced that disciplinary proceedings have been instigated against Chelsea FC,” UEFA said in a statement.

It added that its Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body would deal with the case on February 28.

Chelsea have been dogged by accusations of supporter racism in recent weeks, with four supporters banned pending an investigation into alleged racist insults directed at Raheem Sterling during the Blues’ 2-0 win over Premier League champions Manchester City in early December.

Chelsea coach Maurizio Sarri said the club were in a “fight against stupid people” following further allegations of racism from supporters in the away end during his side’s 2-1 win at Watford on Boxing Day.

Days previously Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck had published an open letter to fans in which he blamed a “deeply unpleasant but vocal minority” for refusing “to join us in the 21st century” and damaging the club’s image.

“We must not allow a small minority of fans to bring further embarrassment upon us, and will continue to take the strongest possible action against them,” said Buck.

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich and several of the club’s players joined the World Jewish Congress this week as part of its “We Remember” campaign to help raise awareness about the Holocaust and fight racism and discrimination.
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Ogun state Governor Ibikunle Amosun has said that nobody can turn President Muhammadu Buhari against him.

Amosun said this at Kajola ward in Obafemi Owode local council in continuation of his campaign to win the Ogun Central Senatorial poll.

He said the moves by some politicians to pit him against Buhari would not succeed.

He said, “All what they are doing is to turn President Buhari against me. Nobody can turn him against me. It is impossible.”

However, the governor urged the people of the state to vote for Buhari, saying the President had added value to the development of the country and the state.

Amosun said, “Look at our railway, airport, power and many others, so we should all vote for him.”

He lamented that some people were trying to disrupt the peace in the state, urging the people to resist any attempt by “foreigners” to enslave them with their votes.

He added, “Where were they before this time, it is now that the state is fast developing that they want to disrupt its peace. Resist them, don’t allow anybody to enslave you.”

At Obafe ward, Amosun told the people not to allow any politicians to collect their Permanent Voter Cards.

He appealed to the people not to engage in violence, urging them to continue to conduct themselves in a peaceful manner.

The governor said, “I will fight any politician that wants to disrupt the peace of the state. We are not known for violence.”
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The Nigeria Police Force has filed a charge against Kogi West lawmaker, Senator Dino Melaye, for alleged illegal weapons possession.

In the charge, which has been filed before the Federal High Court in Abuja, the police said a pump-action gun was recovered from Melaye’s house in July last year during a search of his property in Kogi State.

In the charge, marked, FHC/ABJ/CR/07/2019, the police said the offence contravened Section 27 of the Firearms Act.

The charge sheet reads, “That you, Dino Melaye, representing Kogi West district in the 8th National Assembly, on or about the 20th day of July 2018, at about 12.30 hours under the jurisdiction of this honourable court, unlawfully had in your possession one automatic pump-action shotgun and 20 cartridges, which were recovered at your residence located in the Ayetoro Gbede area of Kogi State, when a search warrant was executed on the directives of the Nigeria Police Force at your above mentioned residence under your control and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 27(1)(a)(i) of the Firearms Act Cap F28 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.”

The police also listed eight persons as witnesses.

The witnesses comprise six policemen and two men who were painting Melaye’s house when the policemen came to search the property.

They were identified as DSP Babagana Bukar, DSP Ibrahim Abalaka, ASP Abdullahi Musa, Inspector Atabo Okpanachi, Inspector Apeh Peter, Theophilus Nuhu, Matthew Anthony and ASP Mohammed Onu.

According to the statements made by all the witnesses and attached to the charge sheet, the gun was found not in the main building but the ‘boys’ quarters’ where cars were parked.

One of the painters, Theophilus Nuhu, wrote, “On July 24, 2018, my master, Peter, brought one Matthew Anthony and myself from Kaduna State to Kogi for painting work in which he took us to one Senator Dino Melaye’s house at Ayetoro, Gbede area of Kogi State.

“While we were doing the painting, policemen, comprising MOPOL, SARS and SCID, came in and met us in the compound and they told me they wanted to conduct a search in the compound and they started to search the compound.

“Within and around the boys’ quarters building, where some cars were parked, under the flower, a gun was observed therewith many bullets but I do not know who put the gun there.”
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The Presidency on Sunday denied alleged plans by President Muhammadu Buhari to islamise Benue State, saying that Governor Samuel Ortom was engaging in a hate campaign against Buhari by making the allegation.

It also stated that Buhari supported the anti-grazing law passed by the Benue State Government in a bid to end the series of conflicts between herdsmen and farmers in the state.

The Presidency noted that Ortom had so far based his 2019 re-election campaign on what it described as “falsehood” against Buhari. It went on to ask the governor to stop passing such messages to the people of the state.

Benue State was one of the theatres of killings by suspected Fulani herdsmen in 2018, beginning with the January 1 massacre of 73 people in Logo and Guma Local Government Areas.

The victims were later given a mass burial on January 11 of the same year.

Throughout 2018, the killings continued unabated, thereby forcing the State House of Assembly to pass the controversial Open Grazing (Prohibition) Law to regulate cattle business and promote a healthier farmer-herder relationship in the state.

Only last Friday, Ortom, during a memorial service held at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Cathedral, Makurdi, in honour of the 73 January 1 victims, urged the people to stop the capital flight going to Fulani cattle farmers by paying more attention to cattle farming themselves.

He disclosed that Benue spent the sum of N2.1bn on cow meat annually saying that the money could be kept within the state instead of using it to buy cows from outsiders.

“With the research we have carried out, over N2.1bn has moved out of the state into the hands of Fulani herdsmen for the purchase and consumption of cattle during the Christmas and New Year’s celebrations.

“Instead of pushing this amount to Fulani herdsmen and our youths engaging in shoddy acts, it is better they direct their energy towards livestock farming to stop capital flight,” the governor had told the congregation.

However, the Presidency, in a statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu, criticised Ortom’s methods, saying that he was visiting churches to spread hatred against the President.

It dismissed as untrue, the allegation that Buhari was planning to islamise the state, adding that Ortom was using the herdsmen/farmers’ conflict to divert attention from his inability to pay workers’ salaries.

“Governor Ortom’s campaign is clearly designed to stir division and hatred, and to divert the people’s attention from his inability to pay staff salaries and pensions for several months.

“It has been noted that the governor has been visiting churches in the state where he falsely tells congregations about President Buhari’s so-called plans to Islamise Benue State.

“The allegations coming from Ortom were particularly unfair, especially when one considers how much support the governor received from the Federal Government, which supported his grazing laws as a means to end the farmer-herder crises that have plagued the state,” the Presidency stated.

The Presidency also claimed that Buhari supported the implementation of the anti-grazing law in Benue so as to prevent the situation from deteriorating further.

It advised the governor to explain to the people why he had been unable to pay salaries, in spite of getting multiple bailouts from the Federal Government, instead of using Buhari as the focus of his campaign.

The Presidency added, “If not for President Buhari’s insistence that the governor be given a chance to effect the law, he would have faced resistance from different sources.

“While advising Ortom to immediately stop his dubious attacks on President Buhari, the Federal Government calls on the people of Benue State not to fall for his deception or allow themselves to be hoodwinked by his negative campaigns.

“They should instead, ask him why he has refused to pay staff salaries and pensions for months, and what he did with the funding from the excess crude account, which should ideally have gone towards addressing such payments.”
source:https://thebiggestgists..com/2019/01/stop-spreading-hatred-against-buhari.html
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As the National Assembly members prepare to resume from their Yuletide break on Wednesday, there are indications that only 33 senators will be available to work on the federal budget of N8.83tn for the 2019 fiscal year presented by President Muhammadu Buhari on December 19, 2018.

It was learnt on Saturday that while 74 senators, who secured their parties’ tickets to contest this year’s general elections would relocate to their various constituencies to prepare for the polls, 33 senators, who lost their bid to return to the red chamber, would stay back to treat the budget.

The National Assembly members cannot resume on Tuesday, January 15, because of the Armed Forces Remembrance Day celebrations in which the two presiding officers of the National Assembly, Bukola Saraki (Senate president) and Yakubu Dogara (Speaker of the House of Representatives), are expected to be actively involved.

The federal parliamentarians are expected to adjourn plenary after five sittings. Our correspondent gathered that they would hold a plenary on Wednesday, January 16, and Thursday, January 17, before adjourning till Tuesday, January 22.

Upon resumption on January 22, the lawmakers would sit on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday before proceeding on a three-week adjournment to enable most of them to participate actively in their re-election campaigns.

No fewer than 66 senators actually secured return tickets to contest the National Assembly polls in February.

While some are contesting the governorship election in their various states, only the 33 members, who lost their return bid, according to sources close to the Senate leadership, will stay back to work on the budget.

A principal officer of the Senate on condition of anonymity that his colleagues, who would not be vying for re-election, would take charge of the budget defence sessions with the ministries, departments and agencies of government.

The Senate official stated, “We would sit for five days on resumption and adjourn plenary for three weeks. Since we are not closing down other legislative activities, our colleagues, who are not contesting elections, will carry on with the budget.

“On the legislative activities on resumption next week, the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, will read a comprehensive speech on Wednesday and he will speak on the general elections and the insecurity in the country.

“There will be a point of order on the clampdown on opposition lawmakers in the National Assembly and there will possibly be a resolution whereby a strong message would be passed to the President and the security agencies.

“Discussions on the general principles on the budget may start on the first day of resumption or on the second day. We will spend the five plenary sessions to discuss the general principles on the budget and the Minimum Wage (amendments) Bill that we are expecting from the President on January 23.

“We will definitely deliberate on the Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper and approve it because it is the benchmark for the budget proposals. We will, no doubt, start work on the 2019 national budget because our colleagues, who are not contesting elections, would stay back to do justice to it.”

Attempts to speak with the spokesperson for the Senate, Senator Ben Murray-Bruce, for the official agenda of the chamber on resumption failed on Friday.

Calls made to the senator’s mobile did not connect while he had yet to respond to the text message sent to him as of the time of filing this report.

However, a member of the Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Abdulfatai Buhari, said a serious consideration would be given to the budget upon resumption after elections in March.

He said, “We would come back immediately after the elections and give it (budget) a serious consideration. Members of the Appropriation may have to do a rigorous work to achieve speedy passage of the bill.

“What I can guarantee is that we would be able to conclude discussions on the general principles between the period of our resumption and the elections.”

The Chairman Senate committee on local and foreign debts, Senator Shehu Sani, also said, “We would discuss the general principles of the budget before we adjourn for the elections.”
source:https://thebiggestgists..com/2019/01/33-senators-to-work-on-2019-budget.html

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has promised to find an enduring solution to the perennial traffic jam in the state with the creation of alternatives to road transport system.

The governorship candidate said he had identified about 60 points where traffic was usually heavy in the state, adding that his administration planned to adopt integrated transport system as well as direct traffic to the free lanes during rush hours.

Sanwo-Olu, who said this in an interview with UHURU TIMES, a Lagos-based publication, promised to complete the rail track currently under construction and invest in water transportation in order to reduce the number of people travelling by road on a daily basis.

The APC candidate stated that waterways that required dredging would be attended to so that boats could travel fast, adding that the complaint of low returns by boat operators would be looked into.

He said, “Our focus is beyond just road travels within the state. We are thinking about an integrated transportation system befitting of a megacity state like Lagos. One third of Lagos is water and that suggests that we have a huge water transportation opportunity and alternative. The waterways need to be properly mapped out to help navigation.

“We also have the rail project that we need to complete, especially the Blueline from Okokomaiko to CMS. We need to complete the track. It is about funding and we will find a way of completing that rail project. Lagos needs a transportation system outside the road; a transportation system that can move thousands of people daily.”

He urged Lagosians to change their orientation about the way they use the road, saying some behaviours, aiding to the traffic congestion, should be dropped in the interest of everybody.

Speaking on waste management, Sanwo-Olu said waste problem would be better tackled if individuals could start to sort their waste and stop mixing organic waste with plastics and bottles.

He promised to make better the over 1,300 public primary schools in the state and improve on the infrastructure in the primary, secondary and tertiary institutions owned by the state government because of the importance of education.

He believed the about N1tn budget size of the state was too small compared to the quantum of infrastructure and services to be rendered.

The APC governorship standard bearer, however, explained that if elected, his administration would not over-burden the people with tax but would be creative in managing the state’s resources.

Sanwo-Olu added that more people would be attracted into the tax net.
source:https://thebiggestgists..com/2019/01/well-develop-alternatives-to-road.html

There are strong indications that names of some dead persons may be retained on the current voter register of the Independent National Electoral Commission as the commission concludes plans for the conduct of the general elections slated for February and March.

Investigations had earlier revealed that names of dead Nigerians including three former governors who died years back were still on the INEC register for the general elections.

The former governors are Diepreye Alamieyeseigha (Bayelsa State), Isiaka Adeleke (Osun State) and Patrick Yakowa (Kaduna State). While Yakowa died in December 2012, Alamieyeseigha and Adeleke died in 2015 and 2017 respectively. Also on the voter list are the names of the late former Vice-President Alex Ekwueme and the late former Minister of Information and Communications, Prof. Dora Akunyili.

it was gathered that the electoral commission would use the current register, which had been sent to all political parties, for the 2019 General Elections.

It is also not certain if the names of the dead prominent Nigerians which were on the commission’s voter register late last year had been removed as no official of the body gave a definite response to enquiries on whether the names had been removed or not as of Friday.

In an exclusive interview, the National Commissioner and Chairman (Information and Voter Education Committee), Festus Okoye, said the commission would go ahead to use its current register for the 2019 elections.

He explained that the commission could not unilaterally delete names of dead persons on its register of voters because it did not fall within its mandate to do so.

According to him, the National Population Commission has been charged with the responsibility of registering births and deaths in the country.

He said, “The commission will not unilaterally remove any name from the voter register without concrete and verifiable information. The commission has published the official register for the 2019 General Elections containing 84,004,084 registered voters. The official register of voters has been published and handed over to the registered political parties. The commission will continue with the clean-up of the voter register after the 2019 elections.

“The removal of the names of the deceased from the voter register is ongoing and will continue immediately after the 2019 elections. We have a register that is good for the conduct of the 2019 elections.’’

He said the commission would continue to partner with agencies and commissions responsible for registering births and deaths in cleaning up the voter register.

“On its part, the commission will continue to run its Automatic Finger Identification System and maintain business rules on the register of voters for purposes of making the register a credible source of information and data for the Nigerian people,” he added.

Alluding to the reason why names of some dead prominent Nigerians could still be on the register despite the public knowledge of the deaths of such people, he said, “The commission and its members do not use their personal knowledge of issues and events to remove the names of persons from the voter register.

“The implication is that INEC can only remove a name from the voter register if the NPC confirms the official demise of a particular individual.

“INEC is not saddled with the responsibility of keeping the register of births and deaths. The responsibility of the commission is to use the register supplied by the organisation saddled with such responsibility for births and deaths. The commission is obligated to display the voter register for claims and objections.”

He added, “The commission displayed the voter register for this assignment. It is the responsibility of the commission to use information supplied by members of the public for purposes of cleaning up the voter register.

“INEC carried out the display of the voter register for claims and objections and urged the members of the public who had lost their loved ones to make the information available to the officials of the commission appointed to handle incident claims and objections and very few Nigerians came forth with the information.”

He, however, said the commission would use the upgraded Smart Card Reader for the conduct of the 2019 elections, adding that “the picture and details of the holder of the Permanent Voter Card must match the details in the EVR before an individual would be allowed to vote.’’

In the updated regulations and guidelines issued by the commission, it is an electoral offence for a presiding officer to violate the provisions of the law relating to the use of the Smart Card Reader. He said this provision would be enforced.

“It is the responsibility of the media to focus attention on those who mobilise fake persons to use the identity of the dead to attempt to cheat the process. The commission will continue to be proactive and upfront in protecting the integrity of the process but the violators of the process must be named and shamed.”

The commission also said it would not be able to give an accurate number of the deceased persons removed from the voter register as the exercise was ongoing and the figure was expected to be harvested from the various states where the voter registers were displayed.

The commission will review the list of the deceased and release the number to Nigerians at the end of the 2019 elections, according to Okoye.

Okoye however said collating the figures of the number of persons removed from the voter register “is not the immediate priority of INEC.”

Speaking in the same vein, Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi, the Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Prof. Yakub Mahmood, said the commission had cleaned the register to the best of its ability, adding that card readers would play a critical role in authenticating the actual person to vote in this year’s general elections.

He warned that anybody hoping to use the voter card of any dead person would be arrested and prosecuted.

He said, “Assuming there are names of dead people on the current register, if you are dead, you are not expected to vote. If anyone turns up with a dead person’s PVC, they will be arrested. The commission has instructed that the card reader must be strictly used for accreditation.

“The card readers have been enhanced and we have backups to handle emergency situations. We can only warn people to be careful because we heard that some people are allegedly buying PVCs belonging to dead people; if they are caught , they will be arrested and prosecuted.’’

Voter register, a polluted electoral document -CUPP

Meanwhile, opposition parties, under the aegis of Coalition of United Political Parties, have described the voter register INEC presented to political parties during the week as a polluted electoral document.

They said the document was unfit for any election.

The CUPP’s first national spokesperson, Imo Ugochinyere, said this in an interview with one of our correspondents on Friday.

He said, “INEC has already programmed the election to fail, starting with dusty voter register that have underage, dead, and double registrants. The voter register is a polluted electoral document unhealthy for any election.”

Nigerians have lost confidence in INEC -Ohanaeze

Also reacting, a pan-Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, claimed Nigerians had lost confidence in the ability of the electoral commission to make the general elections free, fair and credible.

The spokesman for the group, Uche Achi-Okpaga, said, “Already, Nigerians have lost confidence in INEC with the recent Amina Zakari saga and so many other things we hear about INEC. We are not comfortable with INEC.

“You saw the kangaroo elections in Osun and Ekiti; they are still fresh in our memories. So, nobody has confidence in INEC.”

Achi-Okpaga stated that the pan-Igbo organisation was not surprised that the register could contain the names of dead Nigerians as some of them had even been given appointments by the government in the past.

“That is not the only thing we have seen in this government; you know that the Federal Government had given appointments to some dead people. INEC is taking a cue from its paymaster.”

Party chairmen kick as INEC plans to release final guidelines Monday

In another development, INEC will on Monday release its final guidelines for the conduct of the general elections. Okoye said this on Channels Television’s breakfast show, ‘Sunrise Daily’ on Friday.

He said, “The Independent National Electoral Commission met yesterday and took a look at the existing guidelines which we forwarded to political parties, looked at the suggestions made by the parties, civil society groups, the media, security agencies and other critical stakeholders and we have taken all those concerns on board.

“The ones we believe are consistent with the law and consistent with some of the things we are doing, we’ve inputted them in the guidelines and by Monday, we are going to release the final guidelines that will be used for the conduct of the 2019 elections.”

INEC had on Thursday announced that it would not follow the exact format it used in 2015, following calls made by some political parties that it should separate voting and accreditation.

But the CUPP, in a swift reaction, said the chairmen of opposition political parties would on Monday reject the document if presented as it is.

The CUPP’s first national spokesperson, Imo Ugochinyere, said, “Our concern is the manipulated and doctored 2019 election guidelines, which the commission wants to force on political parties on Monday.

“It is not a guideline but a rigging manual which was designed to open the window for the biggest electoral heist in the history of our democracy, more than the electoral fraud that led to the collapse of the 1983 and 1964 republics.

“The chairman has secured the possibility of using purchased PVCs to vote. It is going to be a sad day on Monday if he releases that electoral dirty document as guideline. We will disown him that day as party chairmen.”

We won’t go ahead with INEC’s guidelines-PDP

The Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Diran Odeyemi, said the party was opposed to INEC’s electoral guidelines.

While noting that the PDP was opposed to the use of incident form and the creation of secret polling unit centres, Odeyemi said, “We are working together with the coalition of political parties that rejected the guidelines. Nobody will go ahead with what the Buhari administration and INEC had dished out.”
source:https://thebiggestgists..com/2019/01/2019-elections-inec-may-retain-dead.html
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The Nigeria Police Force said it had obtained a warrant to keep embattled Senator Dino Melaye in its custody for 14 days.

The force spokesman, Jimoh Moshood, explained that the warrant which was obtained from the Federal Capital Territory High Court on January 9, 2019, to enable the police to investigate Melaye for criminal conspiracy and attempted culpable homicide.

He disclosed in a statement in Abuja on Friday that Melaye was moved from the Police Clinic, Abuja, to DSS medical facility due to complaints from the senator that he was unwell.

The statement said, “The Police medical team at the Police Hospital certified that Melaye is well and healthy to stand trial after treating him.

“However, due to complaints from Senator Melaye that he is not well, the Police Investigation Team has taken him this afternoon (Friday) to another government hospital, DSS Medical Facility in Abuja for further medical attention.

“The Police Investigation Team obtained a 14-day remand warrant from the FCT High Court on January 9 to keep Senator Melaye in Police custody for investigation into the case of criminal conspiracy and attempted culpable homicide against him till January 23, 2019.”

The force denied reports that the operatives who evacuated the lawmaker were masked.
source:https://thebiggestgists..com/2019/01/we-have-warrant-to-keep-dino-melaye-for.html
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Ace Nigerian singer and rapper Folarin Falana, popularly known as Falz, has started the New Year with the release of his single tagged “Talk”.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the video of the song, which is directed by Prodigeezy, features Falz driving alongside other men, while different scenes relating to the lyrics of the song played out.

‘Talk’ is a socio-conscious record that addresses critical happenings and advises the youths to be wary of ‘greedy politicians.’

As the 2019 general election draws near, the artiste uses lyrics of the song to address critical leadership issues and advised Nigerians, especially the youths, to speak up for what they truly want.

Falz, now popularly known by industry watchers as a ‘Music Activist’, had earlier hinted fans that he would release an album titled ”Moral Instruction” on January 15.

He said of the album, “There is a dire need for us to redefine the concept of humanity and morality.

“There is a pressing need for re-education and re-orientation of the people, for this is the only way we can restore sanity.”

NAN reports that Falz, a lawyer turned singer, began his professional career as a music artiste in 2009, and currently owns an independent record label called Bahd Guys Records.

He is the son of Femi Falana (SAN), a Nigerian human rights activist and lawyer.

The music artiste came to limelight after his song “Marry Me” (featuring vocals from Poe and Yemi Alade) won him a nomination in the “Best Collaboration of The Year” category at the 2015 Nigeria Entertainment Awards.

In 2018, Falz released a controversial audio/visual song “This Is Nigeria”, a mock-up of American rapper Childish Gambino’s “This Is America”.

It addresses societal issues prevalent in Nigeria, including police Special Anti-robbery Sqaud brutality, codeine abuse, and killings in some parts of the country.

The video of the song highlights the nation’s issues especially violence and corruption in politics, policing, and religious bigotry.

The song was, however, banned by National Broadcasting Commission.
source:https://thebiggestgists..com/2019/01/singer-falz-begins-year-with-new-single.html
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The governorship candidate of the Alliance for Democracy in Lagos, Chief Owolabi Salis, has said if the February governorship election is free and fair, his party will defeat the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party in the state.

Salis, who lamented that the “commonwealth” of the state was in the hands of “one person,” said his party was ready to redistribute the state resources to everyone.

He spoke during a political stakeholders forum organised by the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Lagos State, in Ikeja.

Various parties and their candidates, during the event, presented their programmes and manifestoes to Christian leaders and opinion leaders in attendance.

The event was also attended by representatives of the Independent National Electoral Commission and the National Orientation Agency, among others.

The AD candidate, Salis, who would be contesting for the position for the third time, said he had decided not to vie for the position again until some persons prevailed on him.

He said, “This is a people versus an individual contest. AD is a conglomerate of credible people from PDP, APC and the original AD. What we want to do is to stop all these nonsense. The commonwealth is in the hand of one person and we want to stop it. We want to stop all the thuggery, violence and misuse of resources. We want to take the resources of this state and put them in the hands of the people.

“We have been going to the grassroots and mobilising the people. We are going to win this election. This election, we are winning it. We have a limitation though. And the limitation is rigging and vote-buying and we have been campaigning against them. If there is a free and fair election, we will win it.

“These people are not doing anything. In the last 20 years, have these people built houses for the less privileged? For health, what are they doing for the poor? Many people are dying. Go to the general hospitals and see the discrimination against the poor. In education, I still saw some pupils in Apapa carrying chairs on their heads to school. Pupils are still sitting on the floor in classrooms.”

Salis commended the PFN for the initiative to monitor the elections with five observers in each polling unit. He said the initiative would help Lagos State.

“If they follow it up with serious people, they will see that APC has not been winning elections; they have been rigging them,” he added.
source:https://thebiggestgists..com/2019/01/without-rigging-we-will-defeat-apc-pdp.html
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Ibideji:
How many pants for this now

based on logistics, 20 will do

OAP and leader of the Free the Sheeple Movement, Daddy Freeze, has taken to his Instagram page to react to the recently released Forbes list of Africa's Richest Bilionaires.



According to Freeze, Aliko Dangote and Mike Adenuga who made the first and second cut on the list, do not pay tithes to any pastor or give first fruits to churches. He advised Christians not to listen to the messages of the likes of RCCG general overseer, Pastor E. Adeboye or Winners Chappel founder Bishop David Oyedepo, if they want to be rich this year. Read what he wrote below

Once again those prosperity pastors misled you....
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Where is the prosperity in the land, if we overtook India as the poverty capital of the world and our billionaires became poorer and fewer?
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Mike Adenuga was one of the only billionaire that became richer last year and he neither pays tithes nor gives first fruit. In the same vein, the man at the top spot, Aliko Dangote also doesn’t tithe to pastors or churches and neither does he give first fruit.
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However, both of Nigeria’s richest men are EXTREMELY CHARITABLE, giving a lot to support the poor, weak and the sick.
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It has been shown to us repeatedly by verifiable statistics and empirical studies, that the god of the prosperity doctrine Pentecostals cannot bless anyone with anything except poverty, hardship and sorrow.
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If you want to be rich in 2019, stop listening to Adeboye, Oyedepo and the likes of them and stop giving them your money as well, Instead understudy Dangote and Adenuga, while you invest your money. ~FRZ
source:https://thebiggestgists..com/2019/01/if-you-want-to-be-rich-in-2019-stop.html
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A teacher from Laerskool Schweizer-Reneke in the North West in South Africa has been suspended following the outrage over a photo she allegedly took of black pupils seated separately from their white classmates on their first day of school.

Update: Teacher suspended over disturbing photo of black pupils allocated a table away from their white classmates in SA

The announcement was made by the North West department of education during a meeting at the school following the online outrage and demonstrations by the community and political groups at the school.

According to Timeslive, the department confirmed that the teacher had been suspended with immediate effect.
source:https://thebiggestgists..com/2019/01/update-teacher-suspended-over.html

President Muhammadu Buhari said on Wednesday that he would not approve any money from public treasury for his re-election campaigns to support the All Progressives Congress ahead of the February 16 poll.

Buhari, who spoke after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja, specifically told his ministers to devise individual ways of canvassing votes rather than waiting for government money.

This was contained in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu, in Abuja.

The President was quoted to have said, “Try and use text and multimedia messages to seek votes for the party and government.

“There is no money from the treasury for use in the campaigns. I will not authorise that.”

The statement added that the President used the opportunity to remind the ministers about the development agenda of the APC for Nigeria.

“Nigerians want change and we alone can deliver that change. Our people can no longer be swayed by money politics,” Buhari was quoted further.
source:https://thebiggestgists..com/2019/01/i-wont-authorise-government-money-for.html
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The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday in Abuja approved the establishment of four new private universities in Kaduna, Oyo, Ogun and Osun States.

The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, confirmed this when he briefed State House correspondents at the end of the first meeting of the council in 2019.

The meeting was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.

According to the minister, the new universities are Greenfield University Kaduna, Dominion University, Ibadan, Trinity University, Laloko in Ogun and Westland University in Iwo, Osun.

“All the four have satisfied the criteria for the establishment of universities.

“They have submitted their academic briefs, their master plans and evidence of facilities after visitation by the National Universities Commission; they have satisfied all those requirements and they are being granted licences,’’ he added.

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, who also addressed the correspondents, said the Council approved a National Public Building Maintenance Policy and Framework.

He said the new policy, would institutionalise a maintenance culture in the country, saying that some of the benefits of the policy would provide an inventory of government assets, and job opportunities for Nigerians.

“We have trained artisans at different levels but we have not created an economy for them to go and express themselves – Tilers, Bricklayers, Plumbers, landscapers, fitters etc.

“When they leave training schools what do they do? They go and ride tricycles where there is no training school because there is an economy in tricycles – this is the answer.

“So, we have started with a pilot (scheme) to demonstrate to Council that this will work.

“Some of the things that this will bring include an inventory of all assets that government owns.

“It gives us an assessment of the conditions and value, then, it gives us a maintenance framework about what needs to be done after assessments and then a maintenance procurement manual.

source:https://thebiggestgists..com/2019/01/fg-approves-four-new-private-varsities.html

Pakistani television channels may no longer show “intimate moments between couples” or “bedroom scenes,” the conservative country’s media regulator has announced, complaining of too much feminist content and warning that such “bold themes” offend viewers.

The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority issued its warning on Tuesday, calling on channels to respect the country’s existing media guidelines and refrain from airing content that does not depict a “picture of true Pakistani society.

“The prevalent rampant trend of airing quite bold themes in Pakistani drama industry has resulted in massive public complaints,” PEMRA said in an English-language statement.

“Indecent scenes/dialogues/extramarital relations, violence, inappropriate dressing, rape scenes, caressing, bed scenes, use of drugs and alcohol, intimate moments between couples are being glamourised in utter disregard to Pakistani culture and values,” it continued.

Pakistani dramas and soap operas, many of which seek to challenge the deeply patriarchal country’s conservative taboos, are immensely popular, according to data from PEMRA and Gallup Pakistan.

Many revolve around plot lines portraying social issues such as domestic violence, child abuse, misogyny and women. Activists have previously hailed some as potentially powerful vehicles for grassroots change.

Last year, a soap opera dramatising the life of social media star Qandeel Baloch — infamous for her provocative selfies, until her shocking murder by her brother in 2016 — topped the charts.

Other shows highlighting the issues of so-called “honour” killings and forced marriages were also hits, despite being targeted by a wave of vitriol on social media, with people accusing the channels of spreading vulgarity and destroying social values.

In its statement PEMRA said such dramas “depict hackneyed image of women and have confined themselves to feminist issues only… ignoring children, teenagers and men”.
source:https://thebiggestgists..com/2019/01/pakistan-bans-sex-scenes-on-tv.html
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A man allegedly trying to kidnap a woman chased her into a karate dojo but it didn't end well for him.



This was the scene Thursday evening at Bushiken Karate Charlotte Dojo in north Charlotte, N.C., WSOC reported.



According to police reports, It all began when the suspect tried to force a woman into his car outside the dojo just before 9 p.m. The woman was able to escape and ran into the nearby studio in search of help.



Head instructor Randall Ephraim of the karate studio just happened to be in the studio cleaning up, along with a couple of adult students and some kids being picked up by their parents, so hortly after the woman entered, the suspect followed her in


Ephraim told CNN that at first he thought the man was inquiring about a class, but the suspect said he was there for the woman, who insisted she did not know him and that he had tried to kidnap her. “He then tried to force himself further into the dojo, aggressively pushing and swinging. I then went into action defending myself and got him out of the dojo. Once outside he attempted to attack again and was dealt with accordingly.”


The suspect has since been identified as August Williams, 46, who was taken to the hospital with injuries. He has been charged with attempted kidnapping, assault and other offences related to the incident.
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The Governor of Lagos State, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, has attributed the achievements of his administration in 2018 to divine favour and grace, saying there is the need for residents to show gratitude to God.

Ambode, while speaking at the Annual Thanksgiving Service of the state government at the Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja, on Sunday, said God had been faithful to the state.

He noted that the protection from natural disasters, security of lives and property, continuous growth and development of the state and the global recognition of Lagos were all signs of God’s faithfulness.

“God has been very faithful to us in Lagos and that is why we dedicate every first Sunday of the year to give Him thanks and praise. The modest achievements and progress our state has recorded would not have been possible without His grace, guidance and divine favour,” he added.

The governor, who described the theme of the service, ‘Enter His Gates with Thanksgiving,’ taken from Psalms 100:4, as apt, said the service was for people to appreciate God for His blessings.

Ambode said as the nation prepared for elections in the year, Nigerians must pray for peace to facilitate continuity of development and good governance.

“Let us seek the face of God to grant us peaceful elections devoid of violence, so that Lagos, and indeed Nigeria, will continue to excel and experience continuity of development and good governance,” he said.

In his sermon, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God Worldwide, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, emphasised the need for people to continually appreciate God, saying it helped to complement prayers.

Adeboye, who was represented by his Special Assistant, Pastor Idowu Iluyomade, said thanksgiving could move God into action.

Among dignitaries at the service were the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo; his wife, Dolapo; former governors of the state – Brig. Gen. Mobolaji Johnson (retd.), Alhaji Lateef Jakande, Rr. Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu (retd.); the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the state, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu; and leading Christian leaders in the state.
source:https://thebiggestgists..com/2019/01/ambode-attributes-achievements-to.html
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