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The Adoration Ministry Enugu, Nigeria, on Saturday alleged that an attempt has been made on the life of its spiritual director, Rev’d. Fr. Ejike Mbaka by some unknown gunmen, stressing that the attempted assassination is either “politically engineered or ecumenically endorsed”.

This is coming amidst controversies generated by Mbaka’s utterances last Sunday at his ministry’s annual thanksgiving and bazaar, which has attracted wide criticisms, including from the Catholic Bishops of Nigeria.

Chief Aka Emmanuel, President, National Adoration Family, Chief Okolo Godwin, President, Adoration Fathers’ Associations Worldwide, Mrs Ann Aligwe, President, Adoration Mothers’ Association World Wide, Chukwu Agoziem, President,  Adoration Youths’ Association World Wide and Barr Ike Maximus Ugwuoke – Media Chief, disclosed that some unknown gunmen fired gun shots at Mbaka Thursday evening
on his way along Emene road, Enugu.

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The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has declared that nobody can kill him, even as he gave an insight into how he was healed after using the toilet for 23 times in a day.

Read more: https://newsworth.ng/nobody-can-kill-me-i-survived-after-using-toilet-23-times-in-a-day-adeboye/

The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has weighed in on the controversy  between Ahmadiyyah Muslims and the immediate past governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, accusing the latter of confiscating a parcel of land “belonging to Allah”.

Newsworth recalls that the Ahmadiyyah Muslims had organised a massive protest against Fayose in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, penultimate Saturday.

The group, under the leadership of Bashiru Alawode, accused the former Governor of forcefully taking over its land to build a petrol station for his son.

They claimed that an Ahmadiyyah mosque was built on the land since the early 40’s but was recently demolished because it was built with old moulded blocks, and to allow for the construction of a modern mosque to replace the old one.

Read more: https://newsworth.ng/muslim-group-attacks-fayose-for-seizing-allahs-land/

The annual Reggae Afrobeats Jamrock, a concert aims at promoting Afro-Carribean music and culture in Africa scheduled to hold on Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018 will parade renowned global artists, Kranium from Jamaica and Patoranking from Nigeria.

The event which tends to emphasize cultural exchange through reggae and Afro music on the same stage before an audience will hold Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018 at Harrow Park, Ahmedu Bello Way, Wuse 2 Abuja.

Joseph Francis, the CEO, while speaking on behalf of the organizers, said Abuja will witness awe-inspiring performances from Kranium, Patoranking and other artists who will be thrilling the audience with beautiful and memorable vibes.

He said, never has Abuja witnessed such an energetic show that will involve other top artists.

Also billed to perform at the event are Abuja based artists.

Event’s time is 7pm.

Recall that the first edition which was held at Nicon Luxury hotel in Abuja featured Tuface Idibia and Jamaican reggae and dancehall artist, Yanique.

Check the attached flyer for other details.

http://dailypost.ng/2018/11/22/kranium-patoranking-others-storm-reggae-afrobeats-jamrock-abuja/

Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has revealed that he is always afraid of visiting Enugu, explaining that this is as a result of the deplorable condition of the Akanu Ibiam International Airport runway in the coal city.

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, stated this on Wednesday during a meeting with Igbo leaders in Enugu, where he was endorsed as the preferred candidate of the zone for the 2019 election.

The meeting was attended by chieftains of the PDP across the zone, and was preceded by a nonpartisan summit convened by elders, traditional and religious leaders tagged ‘Ndigbo 2019 and Beyond Summit’.

Atiku said, “I am always scared coming to Enugu because of the state...

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Erstwhile governor of Rivers State now Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has jocularly revealed that he wouldn’t mind being imprisoned by government if he would be paid N500,000 on a monthly basis.

He stated this after his Information counterpact, Lai  Mohammed spoke off record that the Buhari government spends about N3.5 million monthly to feed incarcerated leader of the Shi’a Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky.

“The issue of whether, where he (El-Zakzaky) is, at least let’s keep it off record, that he is in a residence and you know eating at the… it costs the government about N3.5 million every month to feed him,” Mohammed said in an interaction with journalists.

Amaechi, while apparently mocking the figures said in a video now trending online, “then you people need to take me in o.”

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Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State on Friday opened up on reason behind his refusal to felicitate with his predecessor now vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Peter Obi.

Newsworth recalls that former vice-president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar had after emerging as the PDP standard bearer announced Obi as his running mate, but the incumbent Anambra Governor has now revealed that he was withholding his congratulatory message because there was nothing to celebrate about being picked as vice presidential candidate.

Following loads of congratulatory messages that have come the way of Obi upon the announcement of his nomination by Abubakar, Obiano’s media aide, Mr James Eze, had disowned a Facebook post which showed Obiano  as congratulating his predecessor over Obi’s elevation as VP candidate.

Read more: https://newsworth.ng/why-i-wont-congratulate-peter-obi-for-emerging-atikus-running-mate-gov-obiano/

President Muhammadu Buhari has voiced his disappointment in the Nigerian media, disclosing that he was disappointed in the press for not highlighting the progress recorded by his administration in the agricultural sector.

Buhari said this at a dinner he hosted for young political appointees at the Aso Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Wednesday.

He stated that the agricultural sector under him had become so attractive that those who cannot get white-collar job have taken up farming and are reaping the reward.

Buhari pointed out that his government had reduced importation of rice by 90 per cent.

According to him, “I’m very disappointed...

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Apex Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere has slammed the APC national leader, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, for advising the Federal Government to convert unused land to grazing reserves, stressing that the former Lagos governor can convert his Bourdillon residence in Lagos to colony for cattle herders but mustn’t with people’s lives through outlandish propositions.  

Tinubu had while speaking at The Nation/TVC seminar in Abuja on Monday, explained that the desertification in most parts of the North had caused herders to move southward with their cattle in search of greener pastures contrary to insinuations.

The APC leader, who was represented by an Executive Commissioner of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Sunday Dare, said, “An acutely thirsty man remembers neither Bible nor Quran very well until his thirst is quenched. Dire need often pushes a man to behave as if bereft of compassion for a person in equally dire circumstance.

Read more: https://newsworth.ng/herdsmen-you-can-surrender-your-bourdillon-home-for-cattle-colony-afenifere-blasts-tinubu/

In-coming Aare Ogboni (generalissimo of Ogboni Ekiti) of Ekiti State, Chief Emmanuel Ayodele Famodimu has revealed that his grouse with Christians is that they place more emphasis on Jesus Christ than God Almighty, wondering if Christians do not think that the Supreme would be angry with them over the more attention they accord Jesus Christ.

He made this known to newsmen on Tuesday while being received by top members of the Ogboni confraternity at the Imesi Ile, in Osun State, origin of Oke-lmesi town in Ekiti, as part of the traditional preparations for his installation as the Aare Ogboni, generalissimo of Ogboni cult in Ekiti.

Famodimu said, “My grouse with Christians...

Read more: https://newsworth.ng/what-i-hate-about-christians-ogboni-generalissimo/

The All Progressives Congress, APC, Campaign Council for the 2018 Osun Governorship Election has described as excessive grandstanding the call by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to declare its candidate in the polls as the winner.

In a statement issued in Lagos on Monday, the Chairman of the Council’s Media Committee, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, decried the PDP’s descent into hysteria after INEC announced that the election was inconclusive, saying that this reinforced the Council’s earlier statement that the opposition party was in the panic mode prior to the election, and that it had no confidence in the institutions saddled with organizing the polls.

Read more: https://newsworth.ng/osun-decides-lai-mohammed-dares-pdp-to-shun-supplementary-election/

President of Nigerian Women in Clergy, Prophetess Nonnie Roberson has announced that on the 28-29 of Sept., 2018, Lagos will witness the largest gathering of women from all over the world.

Announcing the 2018 edition of the Sisterhood Global event, the pastor of the New Wine Ministry and founder of Sisterhood Global said, God chose Lagos to ensure massive participation of women.

Sisterhood Global is a virtual ministry of Nonnie Roberson Ministry with millions of women globally as members.

Speaking on what will happen at the gathering, Nonnie said, "in this gathering, there shall be a "resetting" of the spiritual landscape of our beloved continent Africa, using Nigeria as her trigger point. God said He is coming for those who need the fire to serve Him better. Those who are hungry and yearn for more of him. He will revive, illuminate, strengthen, endow, restored and empower them for exploits. You shall encounter "raw" our God of signs and wonders.

"Those who will attend will witness breakthrough. The will be set free from captivity. They will be blessed with the fruit of the womb. I see financial breakthrough and others.

"As we gather women from across the continent, it surpasses every other prayer. We expect a direct contact with God at the event," she said.

According to Nonnie, it's clear that on that day, women in ministry will after a special session have their breakthrough. "After the event, there shall be an expression," she said.

She said the event will ignite their relationship with God, just as there will be an outpouring.

"Women are known to be prayer warriors. At the event, we will ignite the warrior in them and they will finish the battle.

"I believe that the gathering shall mark the end of an era of affliction and prosperous future for all women who will jump on this opportunity," Nonnie said.

https://www.naija.ng/1188598-why-gathering-global-women-lagos-prophetess-nonnie.html

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Saraki exposes why Tinubu told him he’d rather ‘support a Buhari on hospital stretcher’ in 2019
By Newsworth - August 20, 201805


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The Senate President, Bukola Saraki on Monday revealed that the support which a national leader of the All progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is giving to the re-election ambition of President Muhammadu Buhari, even if on “a hospital stretcher”, has nothing to do with national interest, but stems from the former Lagos governor’s desire to be President in 2023.


This was as he stated that Tinubu had before now expressed his displeasure with the style of the President Muhammadu Buhari government and also mentioned that he had equally suffered disrespect from the current federal administration which he laboured to put in office.

The Senate President spoke in reaction to a statement issued on Sunday by the APC national leader where he claimed that Saraki and the Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal defected from the APC to the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, because they cannot among other things secure automatic tickets for the 2019 elections.

But in a riposte personally signed by him on Monday, Saraki insisted that Tinub...

https://newsworth.ng/saraki-exposes-why-tinubu-told-him-hed-rather-support-a-buhari-on-hospital-stretcher-in-2019/

Nobel  laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has described former president Olusegun Obasanjo as cunning, rather than clever, calling him an opportunist adept at reading the mood of the country and aligning himself with the yearnings of the masses, in keeping with his messianic fixation.

He spoke on Thursday at the official launch of his Interventions VIII series, entitled: “Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? (Who keeps watch over the watchmen?), Gani’s Unfinished Business,” at Freedom Park, Lagos. The publication is a compilation of the lecture dedicated to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of Gani Fawehinmi SAN and serve as a reminder for concerned and patriotic Nigerians.

Lashing out at Obasanjo, the playwright stated that the former president was a hypocrite...

read more: https://newsworth.ng/how-obasanjo-reads-the-wind-soyinka/

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki on Monday declared that he could not have referred to the Senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye, as a “clown” during a private discussion with the Senator representing Nasarawa West, Abdullahi Adamu, because the former has outperformed the latter within just three years at the Senate.  

Saraki, while reacting to the claim by Adamu, a former governor of Nasarawa state, that he once referred to Melaye as “clown” in a private discussion, described the former as a compulsive liar and an unreliable man who will do or say anything to suit his situation at any point in time.

In a statement signed on his behalf by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu,  the Senate President said he could not have referred to Melaye as a clown given that his Kogi West colleague “has so far outshined and has performed better than Senator Abdullahi in terms of the number of ...

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The Enugu North Diocese of the Anglican Church of Nigeria has created Hausa/Fulani mission outreach, recruiting three Fulani Christian missionaries to help reach out to herdsmen in parts of Ezeagu, Udi and Enugu North local government areas of the state.

The Diocesan Bishop, Rt. Rev’d Sosthenes Eze also disclosed that the diocese has created the Hausa/Fulani mission outreach with an indigene of the state, Canon Nnaji, who had lived and served for long in the North as the coordinator.

Speaking at the third session of the third synod of the diocese held at St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Okwojo, Ngwo, Enugu State, he explained that the move became necessary to stem the spate of farmers-herders’ clashes in the state, especially in the mentioned areas, which, according to him have witnessed influx of herders.

read more: https://newsworth.ng/killings-anglican-church-hires-fulani-missionaries-in-enugu/

Retired Navy commander, Solomon Idor Esor is the chief executive of three companies, and a wealth coach who has raised over 3000 millionaires in the past few years. The member of International Association of Consultants, and Institute of Directors Nigeria, is now vying to represent Cross River Central in the Senate on the platform of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, promising a bold new leadership for his people. In this interview with newsmen, Esor among other things disclosed that his party “will stand on the shoulders of former president Olusegun Obasanjo”, whose coalition recently collapsed into the ADC, to clear the 2019 elections. This was as he made a case for National Assembly members to make wealth creation their constituency project, stressing that poverty is at the root of corruption and all other malaise confronting the country. Below are excerpts….

Why are you going into politics?

I’m running to represent Central Senatorial District in Cross River state. This is not the first time of my aspiring to be a senator. I ran against Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba but because of zoning preferences, the seat was zoned to the old Ikom. But this is the time it has been zoned to the old Obubra where I come from. I’m going fully into politics now because I have observed over the years that our people have been heavily shortchanged. Those who are supposed to represent them, are not relating with the constituents at all and the people are getting poorer by the day. The representatives don’t open doors of opportunities for the people, they don’t create jobs for them, they don’t even let them know what’s happening at the national. People are existing in Central Senatorial District as if they are not Nigerians because they are totally cut off from vital information that would make them wealthy and prosperous.

Who is the incumbent whose seat you are after?

The current representative of Cross River Central in the Senate is Senator John Owan Enoh, but his impact has not been felt in terms of creating opportunities for people of that senatorial district. People have been graduated from school but can’t get any job, causing parents to be still catering for their grown-up children who even have master’s degree. How can you send a child to school and he graduates and returns to the house to stay as if he was not educated. We have a lot of educated and hardworking people from the Central senatorial district but they are jobless simply because opportunities haven’t been given to them. This pains me a great deal, and that’s why I want to come to a position where I can directly reach out to the people, provide opportunities for them both within and outside the country.

How would being in the Senate enable you do this?

As a senator, I would be able to interact with people from the Central senatorial district and link them up with what is happening in Nigeria, and let them be a part of the country for the first time. Currently, everybody is scared of the killings, maimings, and general insecurity, yet my people don’t know what’s the cause of all these and what is being done to protect them. For instance, the Obubra community have been fighting with the Izzi people in Ebonyi state, and everybody is scared. Yet nobody has gone to assure them of security. You know the major aim of government is the protection of lives and property. When people have representation that can’t protect their lives then they need a new bold leadership. What I’m offering to the people of the Central is a new bold leadership that will do two things: create opportunities for the youth and let everybody get back to work. The best the present representative has done for them is to share N1000, N2000, what can N2000 do to somebody’s life. It can’t even cover their transport fare to and fro where they collected the money.

What political platform are you running on?

The political party through which I’d be teaching my people how to fish not just giving them fish is the African Democratic Congress, ADC, because the ADC has come out very clear and very bold to push out the present crop of leaders and bring in what the people have been yearning for – that is a leadership that will create jobs and open up opportunities for the youths. My people are willing to work and earn their money but they are not given the opportunity, there is even no enabling environment for graduate to put into practice what they learnt from school to earn a living. However, all these would change once I get elected. 2019 is the time. I’m going to take my time to coach the youths on how to create wealth.

How can you do this as senator, since you’re not running for governorship?

A senator who knows what he’s doing should be able to have international and national connections. As a senator, I will establish a Wealth Creation Academy in my senatorial district, and bring people from outside the country to come and train the youths on how to be able to create wealth and become millionaires. I can assure that any of the youth that passes through this academy for six months, they will be able to become independent, create wealth and no longer depend on government. This project is going to cut across the six local government areas of Cross River Central, and this I will achieve in the first two years of being a senator. I am going to use my experience as a member of the international association of consultants and wealth creation courses I’ve attended abroad to train the youths to be millionaires. In two years’ time the result will marvel everybody.

What’s your impression of the present Senate?

They’ve been trying to get their acts together but I don’t think they’ve done too well. They haven’t been able to achieve much as expected. We need brand new politicians at the National Assembly who are not just coming there because of constituency projects, which have not benefited the people. This time round, there should be senators who can develop the people in their constituencies by making the kind of laws that will create the enabling environment for people to be rich. The biggest problem of the youths in this country is poverty. If I get to the Senate, I will sponsor bills that would tend towards creating wealth for the people of this country. No senator is thinking about creating wealth for the people. They’re just talking about constituency projects. Aside the usual infrastructures to be provided for the people, my major constituency project would be wealth creation for the individuals in the district, and I’ll make them millionaires. Lawmakers must begin to think of creating wealth for their people as constituency project.

What do you think of the APC, and how would you work with the party if it remains in power?

The country has experienced APC for some time now, but it was not what was promised the people that they are getting from the APC. The best thing that can happen to this country is that whenever those voted in are found not to be performing they should be voted out. As I am coming in, if I don’t perform, I should be voted out immediately. This is what would make elected public officers to sit up. Some people think that the office is their birthright. They are not doing anything yet want to remain there. As we are going in now, I will be working with whichever government in power to come up with modalities that will create wealth for the people. I think my blueprint is so laudable that any government would like to key into it. Any party that would want to remain in government would need that blueprint, and I have the master-key.

Why did you settle for ADC as a platform to use in the 2019 elections?

I’ve gone round areas in my constituency and observed that my people are yearning for a new leadership. They’ve tried PDP, and were disappointed, they’ve tried APC and APC failed them. So they are eager for a new party and ADC provides them with that opportunity. The mantra of the ADC is to make the people wealthy and to make the people rise above poverty. That’s why I’m running for Senate with the platform.

As a party chieftain, what’s your take on the fusion of your party with Obasanjo’s coalition?

Obasanjo is one leader I respect so much and he’s highly respected across Africa and the rest of the world. I would like to say that Obasanjo is an enigma. He has seen it all. He has seen it in the military, he has seen it as a politician in PDP. When you see people who have seen it all toeing a particular line, it would be foolhardy for you to doubt it. If you hear an elder statesman like Obasanjo saying this is where to go, you’d know that that place is the place that carries the future of Nigeria. You don’t need to rewrite history; the elders see farther than the youths. Unless you stand on their shoulders you can’t see far so we are going to be standing on the shoulders of the elders so that we can see farther. Obasanjo is one of such elders on whose shoulders we go beyond our contemporaries. On this basis, ADC will clear the elections in 2019 because standing on the shoulders of Obasanjo you can see beyond every other person.

Are aggrieved APC bigwigs in talks with your party for 2019?

This month of July is when final harmonization would be done. A whole lot of people from the National Assembly, even governors are in talks with us to troop into ADC. Most of them are already coming but the defections would become clearer as the days of this month role by. Talks are ongoing, just watch out. About 34 groups are merging into ADC, and it’s going to be interesting. APC has lost it and they know they’ve lost it.

How would you assess the Buhari government?

You know President Muhammadu Buhari is my senior colleague in the military but politically speaking he has not done too well. Because, with the spate of killings and insecurity in the country, it’s expected that he would have changed the security architecture of the country. In fact, I am having doubts about the NSA who is a retired general. The people have been asking for a change and we expect that the security architecture would have been redefined to better protect the people. In terms of corruption, I see that it is one-sided. If you go to government offices for files to move from table to table, you’d find out that there’s a lot of corruption in the system, but it all boils down to poverty. It’s poverty. Most people are corrupt because of poverty. How do you give someone a minimum wage of N18,000. The pay is unrealistic. We’re deciding ourselves. You now say the people are corrupt, why won’t they be corrupt? The civil servants really don’t have a take-home pay. There’s poverty in the land, that’s why people should vote out any government that is not performing. Democracy is the best system of government. After every four years, the electorate should sack those who are not performing and bring in a new set of leaders. If they fail again, they should be voted out.

How would you correct this if you get elected?

As a senator whose mantra is creating wealth, I will work towards increasing the minimum wage because I know that the current N18,000 is not enough. I would work with other senators and make sure we do everything possible to get a realistic minimum wage for the people. This country is wealthy. Nigeria has what it takes to make every citizen comfortable to some extent. Nigeria should not be the country with the highest number of poor people in the world. We have no business being a country where in every minute, six people get broke. The bottom-line is that everyone should get their PVC and be ready to vote out anyone who does not perform. The only truth we can tell ourselves is that any elected official who is not performing should be voted out. All these boil to the need for wealth creation so that people will no longer be induced to vote for the wrong person because of N1000 or N2000. Therefore, we need to address the issue of poverty so that the people can vote their conscience.

What do you have to say about the stupendous money National Assembly members make in a month vis-à-vis the minimum wage?

It’s not right for lawmakers to earn humongous amount of money at the expense of ordinary Nigerians who are just taking a paltry sum as salary. It’s unfair as we are all Nigerians. Those at the National Assembly may not have a business running for them, that’s why they are trying to collect so much from the public purse. That’s is why I have said that if I’m elected I won’t earn any salary. I will use all the money paid to me to develop my Cross River Central senatorial district. I will use all the money I get from the National Assembly to run a Wealth Creation Academy for my people. I don’t need the money because I can still maintain my lifestyle. My own constituency project would majorly be educating the people on how to be wealthy. My salary in the National Assembly will definitely go to my senatorial district, and I will truly do this if elected.

https://newsworth.ng/adc-chieftain-esor-joins-senatorial-race-reveals-plans-for-cross-river-central/

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Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria, VON, Chief Osita Okechukwu, has stated that foremost nationalist and Nigeria’s first president, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, would have supported the re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019, if he was alive.

Speaking yesterday in Enugu, he insisted that the re-election of Buhari would afford the South-East an opportunity to produce the country’s president in 2023, adding that Igbo block vote for the President in next year’s election would be the most pragmatic and fastest route to securing a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction.

Okechukwu also said 95 per cent of Igbo clamouring for restructuring are in support of a united Nigeria, adding that an Igbo presidency will usher in and fully integrate the race into mainstream of Nigeria’s politics and automatically end long years’ sulk of marginalisation.

read more: https://newsworth.ng/2019-nnamdi-azikiwe-wouldve-backed-buhari-if-alive-von-dg/

The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, on Monday picketed MTN’s office in Kano and Bauchi, following what they termed hostile working environment for the workers.

The picketing, which started at about 6.30am, led to the total grounding of activities at the office, as  Kano NLC Chairman, Comrade Kabiru Ado Minjibir said the action was a directive from the union headquarters and is a nationwide exercise.

Also in Bauchi, chairman of the state chapter of NLC, Comrade Hashimu Gital, said the office of the telecommunications giant’s was being closed in order to  advance a better working condition for the workforce.

Gital stressed that workers are entitled to better working conditions, accusing MTN of regularly renewing employment contract with its workers as a way of shying away from the responsibility of  paying gratuity and pensions

read more: https://newsworth.ng/nlc-pickets-mtn-offices-in-kano-bauchi-over-unfair-labour-practices/

The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC, has disconnected power supply to the Imo State Government, IMSG, House over an alleged debt of N200 million, with electricity supply to the Imo state secretariat disconnected over the payment default.

The spokesman of the EEDC, Emeka Ezeh, confirmed the electricity disconnection...

Read more: https://newsworth.ng/enugu-electricity-disconnects-imo-govt-house-over-n200-million-debt/

Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams, has declared readiness to lead fight against killer herdsmen, disclosing that his  zeal to protect Yorubaland and the will of the Yoruba population to defend their fatherland are being tested with the invasion of some parts of their domain by murderous herdsmen.

While lamenting the unprovoked killings in parts of the country, and how the perpetrators have not been brought to book by the authorities, he called for a South-West Security Summit to discuss herdsmen killings in the region as  events of the last few months have shown that Nigeria is at the crossroads.

Noting that strange things are happening in the country, Adams, who is also the national coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, pointed out in a statement issued on Tuesday that, “Blood thirsty maniacs are on the rampage, killing and maiming innocent Nigerians. The insecurity in the land is reaching an alarming peak.”

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After his victory in the 2015 elections, President Muhammadu Buhari reportedly called Adams Oshiomhole to describe him as a “lion” for standing with him at the presidential election despite tremendous pressure brought on the then Edo state governor not to work against a fellow South-South candidate in the person of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.

It has emerged that after he came on-board as governor of Edo state, there were immense pressures on Oshiomhole to defect to the PDP on the prism that the South-South must remain a PDP enclave...

Read more: https://newsworth.ng/apc-convention-why-buhari-called-oshiomhole-lion-developed-likeness-for-former-governor/

Police authorities in India have disclosed that rats mangled and tore into pieces currency notes worth more than $18,173 stored in an automated teller machine, ATM, of the State Bank of India in Tinsukia district, Hindustan Times reports.

The police said they received a complaint from officials of the local branch of the state-run lender on June 14, saying they found notes worth Rs 12,38,000 in pieces in one of the ATMs on the outskirts of Tinsukia town.

Tinsukia’s additional superintendent of police, Prakash Sonowal, said the bank in its complaint revealed that the teller machine was not functional for about 12 days.

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Former governor of Ogun State and a chieftain of the APC, Chief Olusegun Osoba, has disclosed that the children and wives of the presumed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Bashorun MKO Abiola, suffered outright neglect following his death, as none of the late politician’s associates bothered to assist the Abiolas.

Noting that Abiola awarded scholarships to many students irrespective of tribes and religion and created professorial chairs in different tertiary institutions across the federation, he expressed disappointment at the way the late philanthropist were abandoned, regretting that nobody ever set up foundation for the children and wives left behind by Abiola.

Newsworth recalls that President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday posthumously bestowed the nation’s highest honour of the Grand Commander of the Federal Republic, GCFR, and apologised to the family on behalf of the federal government over the treatment meted out to their patriarch.

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The Director, Strategic Communications of the President Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation, Festus Keyamo SAN, has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari does not need federal funds to clinch his re-election bid, stressing that the President’s supporters would be happy to sell their possessions to ensure his re-election.

While stressing that cultural change as the single greatest reason why Buhari would be re-elected, he said: “He (Buhari) needs time to instil that culture different from what we have learnt government is all about. Let’s be honest, most young people of our generation grew up to know only the PDP system, which is, and was, only about money.”

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Against the backdrop of the presidential proclamation of June 12 as Democracy Day, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to declare December 31 as “democracy destruction day” because that was the day Buhari, as Major-General, was installed as head of state following the ouster of ex-president Shehu Shagari in a coup.

Buhari, then general officer commanding, 3rd armored division, Jos, on December 31, 1983 led by a group of senior army officers to overthrow the democratically-elected government of President Shagari. He was appointed Head of State by the conspirators when they ended Nigeria’s Second Republic.

Now a democratically-elected president, Buhari on June 6 directed that effective from 2019, Nigeria’s Democracy Day, marked every May 29 for the past 18 years, be shifted to June 12 to honour Moshood Abiola, presumed winner of the 1993 presidential election, widely acclaimed to be Nigeria’s most credible but annulled by the IBB junta.

Abaribe, representing Abia South on the platform of the PDP, said December 31, 1983 is significant enough to mark the day democracy was destroyed in Nigeria, calling on the president to declare the date just as he did June 12.

He said this on Thursday while contributing to a debate on a motion on the post humous award of Grand Commander of the Federal Republic (GCFR) conferred on Moshood Abiola, presumed winner of the 1993 presidential election.

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President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday pointed out that it would be difficult for political office holders, who are bad, to last beyond one term in power, thanking the constitutional democracy being practised in Nigeria for ensuring this.

Speaking on Thursday when he hosted Nigerian artistes and youth organisations to breaking of fast at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the President said he was robbed of the presidency for three times after defeating his opponents.

He, however, observed that the Nigerian constitution has provided him the opportunity to work diligently towards uplifting the quality of life of all Nigerians irrespective of their socio-political backgrounds.

Buhari pledged that his administration would continue to implement policies and programmes aimed at creating an enabling environment for the youth to progress in different human endeavours.

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Embattled Senator representing Kogi West, Sen. Dino Melaye on Wednesday made a dramatic appearance at the Senate, declaring his intention to cross-carpet to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, wing of the upper legislative chamber.

Melaye had been away from the Senate, since over a month, when the Nigerian Police arrested him and he was subsequently admitted at the intensive care unit of the National Hospital, Abuja.

Appearing with clutches and neck support to Wednesday’s plenary...

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Members of the new Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, say it is too early to know for certain if they will remain in the All Progressives Congress, APC, but warned that 12 states in the country, amounting to about four million votes, were at stake should its members decide to leave the ruling party.

The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, reportedly acknowledged this much when he met with leaders of the nPDP bloc in the APC at his Aguda House official residence in Abuja.

Newsworth recalls that the nPDP bloc had in an April 27, 2018, letter
addressed to the Chairman of APC informed the party of their grievances and expectations from both the party and the government of President Muhammadu Buhari.

The nPDP later added that they had met to consider the state of affairs in the ruling party and the country and had set up committees that will help it chart the way forward.

At the meeting with Osinbajo on Monday night, the nPDP members in attendance tabled their grievances and problems within the APC, which they said were reinforced by the parallel congresses held by the party in several states of the federation.

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Rev’d. Fr. Emmanuel Atsue, rector of the Sacred Heart Minor Seminary in Jalingo Taraba state which was attacked by herdsmen in the early hours of Monday, has given an account of what transpired when sophisticated arms-bearing Fulani invaded the premises of the institution.

He revealed, in a statement issued on Monday afternoon, that the grievance of the Fulani attackers was that security men in the Seminary have been challenging their decision to graze the cattle right inside the institution where future priests are trained, including around the classes, football field and laundry areas.

It was earlier reported that two Catholic priests were on Monday morning beaten with one shot in the leg when gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen attacked a minor seminary in Jalingo, Taraba State capital.

Providing more detail into the incident, Reverend Father Atsue stated...

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