THE crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Delta State took a dramatic twist Tuesday as properties at the Isoko South Local Government secretariat of the party were set ablaze by aggrieved party members.

Though the circumstances surrounding the incident were hazy at press time, sources however said it was not unconnected with the harmonization of ward executives of the party in the council area. A dependable source in the area who pleaded anonymity, told Vanguard that “Yesterday (Monday) Chairmen of the party in Oleh wards 1 and 2 were sworn -in. “Today some aggrieved members of the wards mobilized and broke into the secretariat which is a rented apartment, removed all the chairs, tables and some other office properties, brought them outside and set them ablaze.

“The party is trying to harmonize the executives so that there will be peace in the party, but these people were not happy with the way the process was being carried out because they feel it is non inclusive”



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Security operatives have lifted the siege on the National Assembly.
The lift came barely an hour after the announcement of the sack of the Director General of the State Security Service (SSS), Lawal Daura.
It also came some minutes after some senators left the National Assembly premises.
The mask-wearing officers, mainly of the SSS, who blocked entrance to the National Assembly from early hours of Tuesday, left the assembly gate at 2:49 p.m. Tuesday afternoon.
They had earlier told senators and journalists they were acting on order from above.
The senators who left the assembly complex earlier, were mainly of the opposition party, PDP.
Many senators of the ruling APC were not at the NASS on Tuesday amidst reports they were planning the removal of Senate President Bukola Saraki.
A senator, Dino Melaye, vowed PDP senators will continue their vigilance until their APC colleagues back down on the plan.
He described Mr Daura’s sack as attempt to salvage the failed integrity of President Muhammadu Buhari’s government.
Ben Murray-Bruce and Forster Ogola were other senators who left the National Assembly.



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A former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido , on Monday visited the former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and sought his support for his ( Lamido ’s ) presidential ambition .



Lamido who had held almost two hours closed - door meeting with the former president at his Abeokuta presidential residence , later told journalists that there were despair and poverty across the nation , which called for urgent intervention .

The former governor, who said that was why he would be contesting the presidency in 2019 , however , added, before taking such plunge he had to consult Obasanjo whom he described as his ‘father ’ for advice and support.

He said , “Yes, I am aspiring and as a result , I must discuss that with my father , Baba Obasanjo .

“In Nigeria, when they say who is Baba’ s son( Obasanjo ’s son) , they say it is Sule Lamido . And as a result of this, I have only come to my father to seek guidance and as well talk about Nigeria, and to still tap from his wisdom about Nigeria.”

Talking about the situation in the country, Lamido said that he could “see poverty and despair in the faces of the people , in fact , I see there is no hope for this country. ”

The former governor expressed his happiness at the gale of defections to the Peoples Democratic Party , arguing “in a political party what you need is followership and when people are coming into your own party , you should be happy and even celebrate. ”




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No fewer than nine serving corp members on Saturday , August 4, 2018 , were drowned in a river at Gashaka local government area of Taraba State .
LEADERSHIP gathered that the corp members lost their lives while on a picnic at a riverbank .

It was further gathered that four bodies recovered , while five are still missing .

The Taraba State Coordinator of NYSC, Mrs Florence Yaakugh , while confirming the ugly incident to newsmen said the remaining five bodies were yet to be recovered .

Our correspondent learnt that the dead bodies of two male and female were identified as corps members posted to Taraba state from Enugu, Imo, Delta and Edo state respectively .

When contacted , the Taraba State spokesperson of state police command, ASP David Misal told journalists on phone that the command was aware of the incident.

LEADERSHIP reports that Director General of the National Youth Service Corps ( NYSC) , three days ago visited the 2018 Batch B corps members posted to Taraba state and tasked them to lead campaign against drug abuse and

other indecent act for a better country .

During the visit , he assured all serving corp members that their monthly allowances would soon be reviewed upward to enhance their well - being in their service year


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and Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has said.



Mrs Dabiri-Erewa said this in a statement by her media aide, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, on Sunday in Abuja.

She said the Federal Government and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) have located the detention camps of the Nigerians, and offered to bring those willing back home.

The Nigeria Mission in Tripoli, she said, had traced the migrants to Osama Detention Centre, Zawiya, Libya.

According to her, 116 Nigerian migrants have been processed online by the Nigeria Mission and IOM for repatriation back to Nigeria.

However, 24 of them insisted they must get to Europe.

She said that Federal Government moved to rescue the detained migrants after their plea for assistance through video clip from Libya on July 8.

In the video, the stranded Nigerians who veiled their faces, said that their final destination is Europe but were intercepted by security agents in Libya and locked up under dehumanising conditions.

The migrants had in the video said they were being tortured to death daily under a dehumanising condition.

“We are dying here. Come and rescue us. Europe is our final destination but we are trapped in Libya subjecting us to inhuman treatment”, one of the Nigerians said in the video.

Mrs Dabiri-Erewa said that 9,438 Nigerian migrants had so far been repatriated by the Federal Government and the IOM.

She gave assurance that President Muhammadu Buhari would continue to ensure that all stranded migrants willing to return home are brought back.

President Muhammadu Buhari early this year directed immediate evacuation of Nigerians from Libya.

According to her, those that have been brought back are being profiled and enrolled in various technical and vocational training centres with relevant agencies and NGOs.

She appealed to Nigerian youths to avail themselves the opportunities in the country as against risking their lives to search for a non-existing and deadly greener pastures abroad. (NAN)



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Twenty-three out of the 24 members of the Kwara State House of Assembly on Wednesday defected from the ruling All Progressives Congress to the Peoples Democratic Party.
Only the member representing Ojomu/Balogun Constituency of Offa Local Government Area, Mr. Saheed Popoola, remains in APC.
The Speaker of the Assembly, Dr. Ali Ahmad, speaking on the floor of the House during the defection, said APC had been “fictionalised.”
Ahmad said, “All the honorable members — except one — have finally changed party to the PDP.
“This is permitted by the Proviso to Section 109 (1) (g) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“Today, as I and other members of the Kwara State Assembly dump the APC for good, I heaved a sigh of relief.
“In 2014, I was terribly sad leaving PDP reluctantly with 36 other members of the House of Representatives.
“Today, I am the happiest leaving the APC for good. I wish I was never a member of the party.”



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National Publicity Secretary of APC BolajiA bdullahi defects to PDP.
At this rate, we hope buhari will not defect to KOWA party

A 15-year-old Vivian Monye was on Tuesday electrocuted while assisting her father in a clean-up exercise after flood wreaked havoc in their rented apartment
The incident happened at Owanta Aliosimi quarters of Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta State.





DAILY POST gathered that the victim, unknowingly stepped on electricity wire inside the flood water that covered virtually all the houses within the quarters after the mid day downpour, which lasted several hours.

The victim’s father, Moses Monye, who confirmed to DAILY POST the death of his daughter, said “Vivian and her brother were assisting me to bail out water that took over our apartment after

the mid day heavy rainfall when suddenly BEDC restored power supply to our area, which caused electric surge.

“We all tried to run for safety buy my daughter, Vivian got stuck

before I could assist her inside the flood, she gave up the ghost,” the bereaved father told our reporter.

It was further gathered that Vivian, before her untimely death, was a student of a community secondary school in the area and the only daughter of her father, who also lost her mother at the age of six.

Vivian’s father, who said he was 70 years old, and had refused to remarry since the death of his wife, (Vivian’s mother), lamented thus, “It’s unfortunate and sad a experience, Vivian was the only daughter I have, the mother died when she was barely six years old, and I took care of her all alone. I couldn’t imagine watching my daughter Vivian helplessly as she died inside the flood water. I am finished”

Speaking to DAILY POST, the state Commissioner for Special Duties, Barrister Ernest Ogwezzy, who paid a condolence visit to the bereaved family, expressed the state government’s commitment to ensuring flood menace becomes a thing of the past in the area.

He urged the beavered family to bear the loss and always look up to God.

He disclosed that the state government had earlier made provisions for those seriously affected by the rampaging flood caused by the heavy rainfall to relocate from their homes.

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Armed bandits have struck in another community in Southern Birnin-Gwari local government area of Kaduna State, killing five people.
DAILY POST reports that seven others were injured, while three of them are in critical condition.
The armed bandits had on Sunday evening killed three persons and abducted a woman nursing a baby, and many others.
The chairman, Birnin-Gwari Vanguards for Security and Good Governance, Ibrahim Abubakar Nagwari in a statement said that the merciless gunmen overran Kurigi village in Kakangi ward in Birnin-Gwari local government.
He added that due to remoteness of the area and the proximity to border with Zamfara State, the news of the killings was not available.
“The five people killed at Kurigi village were buried yesterday evening under heavy guards by security and vigilantes around 5.00pm on Monday.
“The armed bandits killed four people at once while the fifth person died on the way to Brinin Gwari general hospital,” Ibrahim said.
He called the attention of the federal government on the need to deploy more security forces to Birnin-Gwari to prevent influx of armed bandits escaping military onslaught in Zamfara State



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A fire outbreak occurred at Ecobank headquarters on Victoria Island, Lagos on Tuesday .
According to an eyewitness , who shared details on her Twitter handle , @ AN 26th , the fire started when a “diesel tanker exploded near their generator. ”
On its Twitter handle .


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Nigeria’s current power generation capacity can be ramped up with additional 3,000 megawatts of electricity if the federal government can harness the amount of gas being flared at 139 flare locations of the Niger Delta, the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has said.
This is just as the agency in one of its report disclosed that in 2017, it contributed N748 billion to the national treasury, from oil tax and royalties, representing 83 per cent of its target for the year.

With the country sitting at the seventh position in the global gas flaring index, with 11 per cent of its gas production flared routinely and non-routinely, the federal government through the National Gas

Flare Commercialisation programme (NGFC) is targeting to achieve a zero gas flaring milestone by 2020.

Delivering a paper at the just concluded workshop for energy correspondents in Lagos, organised by the DPR, an official from the agency’s Gas Monitoring and Regulation unit, Mr. Olawoleola Ogunsola, pointed out that Nigeria’s potential to light up Africa was realistic if it can leverage its gas resources.

He said, “As at January one, 2017, our national gas reserve was 198.74 trillion cubic feet (tcf). We are trying to meet the 600tcf in future. 11 per cent of our national gas production is flared which is about 888 tonnes of standard cubic feet per day.”

According to him, the solution to gas flaring is for government to construct pipelines to bring the gas being flared into one position for commercialisation; find markets for gas flared in the country, stressing that, that was the purpose and mission of the NGFC programme.

“We made a mistake with the programme in the past because we allocated flare sites to companies without both technical and financial capacity to harness them.

“However, things have changed because DPR is now making sure those who got earlier allocations have everything it takes to take the gas into the market for sale”, he said.

He noted that government would be responsible for finding market for gas currently being flared unlike in the past, and harped on the need to make gas exploration in the country more attractive to investors.



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A young man identified as Tobi Adeleke has died untimely after his friend, Michael Mathew stabbed him in the neck as he was trying to settle a dispute caused by money.
The deceased and his killer in the company of some other friends had gathered on Adewunmi Adebiyi Street in Agege Lagos, around 11pm on Saturday and tried to share some money given to them.

According to Punch NG, a fight reportedly broke out among the friends concerning how the money was to be shared.

In the process of trying to make peace, Mathew allegedly used a broken bottle to stab Adeleke in the neck.

It was gathered that Adeleke was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital after which he was referred to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, for treatment.

Adeleke was later confirmed dead by a doctor on duty. Matthew was subsequently arrested by the police.

A friend of the deceased, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the deceased was an easy-going person who was a victim of a good deed.

He said;


“I got back from work around 10pm and I was outside my house when Matthew came and was acting weird. He was trying to play with me, but I told him to leave me alone because I was tired.

“After some time, I saw that a fight had broken out involving some of my friends. Before I got there, Matthew had stabbed Adeleke.

“Immediately I got to the scene of the incident, I quickly joined others to rush Adeleke to a nearby hospital where first-aid treatment was administered on him before he was referred to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja. He died at the hospital.

“I learnt that Adeleke was not part of those that were fighting, he was just trying to settle the dispute that ensued among some of them while they were trying to share money. He did not know that Matthew was holding a weapon.”


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Three people have been reportedly killed while seven others, including two nursing mothers were abducted when bandits stormed Unguwar Dan-Baki, and Sabon-Layi villages in Birnin-Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Sunday.
One of the nursing mothers was said to have been abducted alongside her eight-day-old baby.
Ibrahim Abubakar Nagwari, Chairman of the Birnin-Gwari Vanguards for Security and Good Governance, in a statement on Monday, said the incident occurred at about 7:00pm.
The statement said the gunmen had a field day as they carted away cattle used for traction by the villagers in their farms.
The statement quoted an eyewitness, Garba Tanko, as saying that the attack took place during the “Maghreb” (evening) prayers.
According to the statement, “The attackers had a field day and carted away the cattle used for animal traction by the villagers in their farms.
“The attackers are using a corridor of Kamuku Forest and Kuyambana Forest in Zamfara State to terrorise farming communities in Birnin-Gwari Local Government territories.”
The statement called on the federal government to deploy more security personnel to stop the influx of bandits who are being chased from Zamfara State by the military to the Birnin Gwari area.
“As the military and police personnel are advancing to secure many parts of our territories from bandits and kidnappers especially along Birnin-Gwari-Kaduna road as well as Birnin-Gwari-Funtua road, we are calling on the federal government to deploy more security forces to Birnin-Gwari to prevent influx of bandits escaping military onslaught in Zamfara State to Birnin-Gwari” the group said.
The spokesman of the Kaduna State Police Command Mukhtar Aliyu could not be reached to react on the incident as his mobile telephone was not connecting.




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The Benue state house of assembly has suspended the lawmakers who served an impeachment notice on Samuel Ortom, governor of the state.

The lawmakers, who are members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), accused the governor of embezzlement, and gave him seven days to respond to the allegations.

But in reaction, the Peoples Democratic Party lawmakers who are the majority, accuse their colleagues of court contempt and holding illegal plenary.

Last week, a court in Makurdi presided over by Adam Onum, a judge, restrained Terkimbi ikyange, impeached speaker, from parading himself as head of the assembly.

Those suspended by the PDP legislators are Terkimbi ikyange, impeached speaker, Adanyi Benjamin, Terhemba Chabo, Benjamin Nungwa, Bem Mngutyo, Adams Okloho, James Okefe and Nick Eworo.

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The Speaker, Zamfara State House of Assembly, Sanusi Rikiji, has said that 15 persons were kidnapped by unknown gunmen on Saturday in Maradun Local Government Area of the state.

Mr Rikiji told journalists in Gusau on Sunday that the security situation in the state called for serious .
He recalled the ugly incidences recorded in the last two days in Zurmi Local Government Area where bandits took over three districts comprising over 18 villages and towns.

“As I said yesterday in Zurmi the issue of insecurity in this state require general study system review to tackle the prolonged security challenges facing the state.

“Security agencies should do more and more to deploy enough security personnel in Zamfara; we need permanent security stations in the affected area.

“We thank the immediate intervention of the federal government to this issue. As I am speaking now the troops, security personnel, have been deployed to the affected areas in Zurmi.

“They have started restoring normalcy in the area. We appeal to the people of the area to remain calm as government in collaboration with security agencies is working to maintain peace and stability in the areas,’’ he said.

The speaker also thanked the Emir of Zurmi, Abubakar Atiku, over his concern and commitment to the protection of his people.

Also on Sunday, President Muhammadu Buhari announced the deployment of a 1000-strong security force to Zamfara to check the worsening security situation there.

The security force includes the army, air force, police and civil defence. The president also ordered the deployment of two fighter jets to the state, which will operate from a base in nearby Katsina State.

Hundreds of people have been killed in the past year by bandits in Zamfara. The attackers also often burn villages and kidnap for ransom.


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Democratic Party, PDP, is, this week, set to receive and celebrate defectors from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in a high profile celebration.



The APC on its part said, yesterday, that it was also perfecting plans to win back its leverage by poaching some high profile members of the PDP even as it said yesterday that it had worked out plans to secure its ascendancy.

Meanwhile, Reformed All Progressives Congress, R-APC, has lamented mutterings by ministers who it claimed had been locked out from the president.

The reception for the defectors, Vanguard gathered, could coincide with the defections from the APC by Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State and some senior party officials being on the wings. The precise date of the defection of Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, was as at yesterday unclear.

Governor Tambuwal, Vanguard gathered last night, could defect after the report of a committee set up to decide the fate of his political machine reports to party stakeholders tomorrow.

Following a meeting with stakeholders in Sokoto, last Thursday with no unanimity reached, Vanguard gathered that it was decided to enlarge the consultations among some other stakeholders from outside the state.

APC’ll field only popular candidates

Meanwhile, the APC was, yesterday, perfecting strategies to sustain itself as a ruling party through the fielding of what a high profile party source said as popular candidates.

“APC will field popular candidates and not leaders’ candidates, but candidates of the people because that is the way the party can win elections, grassroots candidates, and that is why the chairman is not worried,” the source said yesterday.

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DETECTIVES in Ondo State Police Command are battling to unravel the mystery behind the suicide of a 25-year-old, Ayo Paul, who reportedly hanged himself in his Aule area of Akure metropolis apartment.



Vanguard gathered that his dangling body was discovered by his landlord, who was worried that he did not join other tenants to observe last Saturday’s environmental sanitation exercise.

Described as a gentleman, the deceased who lived alone, was said to be passing through financial stress.

A sympathiser said: “Nobody could say the reason Ayo committed suicide, because he was a gentleman and he never had issue with anybody. It was his landlord that was looking for him when he did not see him on Saturday morning.

“But on opening his room, the landlord found his lifeless body and immediately raised the alarm.”

Contacted, Police image maker, Femi Joseph, confirmed the incident, adding that the Command has commenced investigation.

According to him, “we are yet to know why the deceased took such an action. But we have commenced investigation on the incident,” describing the death of the man as unfortunate.


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A member of the Oyo State House of Assembly representing Ibadan North II state constituency, Mr Olusegun Olaleye has make good his decision to dump the ruling APC and joining the People’s Democratic Party formally as he attends the party’s ward meeting.

Olaleye described the switch of allegiance as “a return to Canaan, the promised land.
The lawmaker, who had on June 28 disclosed his decision to dump the APC, said his decision was based on the “bastardisation of the ideals of Lam Adesina that he believed in, in the current APC in Oyo State.”

Speaking at the Ward 11, Ibadan North Local Government, where he was received by the PDP Chairman of the local government, Mr Seun Adelore, Olaleye said he went astray in the APC but was back to the party that will form the next government in the state.

According to Olaleye, the leader of the PDP in the state, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, held the “ark of governance in the 2019 election in the state”, describing the PDP as a moving train which boasted of huge followers across the state and good leaders like Senator Ladoja, Chief Sarafadeen Alli and Senator Femi Lanlehin.

He urged the people of the state, particularly the constituency to get their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) so as to greatly determine who rules them in 2019.

Other state lawmakers who accompanied Olaleye to the event include Messrs. Ademola Ige, Fatai Adesina and Niyi Adeoye.

Adelore, the party Chairman in the local government in his remark, declared that the PDP in the state was poised for huge victory at all levels of government, in the 2019 election. He described the PDP as a big and accommodating party that all residents of the state should belong.

The event was also witnessed by large supporters of the lawmaker who also decamped to the PDP with Olaleye.


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President Muhammadu Buhari Saturday appealed to his supporters across the nation to suspend campaigns for his re-election in compliance with the electoral law.
The president, whose appeal was contained in a statement by his spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina, said it had come to the realisation of the presidency that his supporters had started campaigns through advocacies and placement of advertisements in the media.

According to Adesina, the commitment of the supporters is appreciated but they must be mindful of existing timetable for electoral campaign as set by the electoral commission that is yet to be effective.

Furthermore, Adesina who said there would be enough time to campaign for Buhari’s election, added that commencing campaigns now would amount to jumping the gun which he advised them to avoid.

He added that while showcasing the achievements of the administration now is in order, outright canvassing for votes is off-side.

“It has been observed that some fervent supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari have begun what may be interpreted as political campaigns in their advocacies and advertisements in the mass media.
We appreciate their enthusiasm, borne out of desire to garner support for an administration that is actuated by nothing else, other than service for motherland, but we hereby appeal for patience, so that the game can be played according to the rules.

“The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has a timetable for political campaigns, and we urge committed supporters round the country (and beyond) to be mindful of such.

“There will be ample time ahead to trumpet the good works of the Buhari administration, and solicit re-election, all for the good of our country and her people.

“While a chronicle of the achievements of the administration is in order now, outright canvasing may amount to jumping the gun. We are an administration committed to due process and scrupulous respect for rules, law and order.

“We appreciate our massive supporters nationwide, and urge them to exercise restraint till the race commences officially as stipulated by law.”


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Elder statesmen from the South and the Middle Belt have accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of registering foreigners and under-aged voters in Northern Nigeria.
To this end, the elders rejected the current voters registers, asking INEC to jettison same, while also asking for the immediate retirement of service chiefs who they said were long over due for retirement.

Operating under the aiges of the Southern Elders and Middle Belt Forum, the elders made the demands during a courtesy call to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, in Abuja on Wednesday.

The Forum was made up of Afenifere , Ohanaeze Ndigbo , the Pan-Niger Delta Elders Forum (PANDEF) and Middle Belt Forum.

Members of the delegation included Professor Chigozie Ogbu, Air Commodore Idongesit Nkanga, retd, Air Commodore Dan Suleiman, former Governor Olusegun Mimiko, Cornelius Adebayo and Chief Olu Falae.

Led by Chief Ayo Adebanjo of Afenifere , the elders also demanded the support of the lawmakers in the realisation of the restructuring of the country under a federal system of government.

Adebanjo said only restructuring of the country in a federal system of government would guarantee the unity of the country.

He said: “The current voters registration exercise has been compromised and marred by irregularities by the registration of under-aged and foreigners being recorded in some parts of the north.

“Accordingly, we call for the total cancellation of the INEC voters register, support and insist on restructuring and true federalism and call on the National Assembly to immediately commence a legislative agenda in that regard.

“Anything beyond restructuring, we are not for it and we believe in championing this cause, we need the support of the House.

“By conveying the idea of restructuring to you does not mean to break up Nigeria. It is the only thing that can keep Nigeria together in peace.

“We do not think that after being together for so long we should break up but we don’t want to be in a Nigeria that is dominated by one section of the country, that is anti a section of the country and extremely pro another section of the country.

“Anyone one who is opposed to the restructuring of the country is the enemy number one. We want a constitution that is agreeable to all of us…”


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At least 28 people were killed and 35 wounded in a suicide attack on a polling station in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, officials said, as millions voted in a nationwide election Wednesday.
The bomber) was trying to enter the polling station. When police tried to stop him he blew himself up," a local administration official in Quetta, Hashim Ghilzai, told AFP. The incident and toll were confirmed by a second senior local official.
The attack was not immediately claimed by any group.

Balochistan, Pakistan's poorest and most restive province, suffers from Islamist and separatist insurgencies.

It was hit by several bombings during the brief but acrimonious election campaign - including a devastating blast claimed by the Islamic State group which killed 153 people this month, and was Pakistan's deadliest ever suicide attack.
An earlier attack in the province on Wednesday left one policeman dead and three wounded when a hand grenade was thrown at a polling station in the village of Koshk, in Khuzdar district.

The military has stationed over 370,000 personnel across Pakistan to ensure security for the election, bolstered by an additional 450,000 police.


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La Liga have announced the full set of league fixtures for the 2018-19 season.

The first El Clasico of next season will take place at Camp Nou on October 28, while the reverse fixture will commence on March 3 next year.

The opening Madrid derby is scheduled for November 30 at the Santiago Bernabeu, with Atletico Madrid hosting their city rivals on February 10.

Barcelona start their title defence at Alaves during the weekend of August 18-19, and close off the season at Eibar on the weekend of May 19.

Meanwhile, Real Madrid will host Getafe in the opening weekend and will end their campaign at home against Real Betis.

Atletico will begin their season with a trip to Valencia and will finish against Levante.

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Members of the House of Representatives are currently collating a list of members that will possibly leave Nigeria’s ruling party, APC.

Razak Atunwa, Ali Madaki and Abdulsamad Dasuki, all elected under the platform of APC, are spearheading the move.

Sources among the defecting lawmakers told PREMIUM TIMES there are about 100 names on the list. This could not be independently confirmed.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, is expected to make the announcement of the defections before the end of plenary on Tuesday.

Fifteen senators earlier defected from the APC .

The House plenary was ongoing at the time of this report.

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The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Tuesday relayed his experience in the hands of security operatives, who laid siege to his house, to his colleagues.
Security agencies early Tuesday morning laid siege on the homes of Mr Saraki and Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu in Abuja.

The move is said to be a ploy to prevent them from making it to the National Assembly today because of a plan by many lawmakers to decamp from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Mr Saraki, however, made his way to the Senate chamber at about 10:40 a.m. and presided over the plenary. Mr Ekweremadu did not make it to plenary and the siege on his home was still on at midday.

Reacting to a motion on the siege on his home and that of his deputy, Mr Saraki said the plenary would not have held if not for his preparation.

“The road leading to my place was cordoned off and all cars coming in and out as early as 6:30 were being stopped and you have to come down.

“My convoy was stopped from moving. Given something that one was prepared for, I had my own car too. So the deputy senate president called me and said he could not come here.

“And as you are all aware, very late yesterday, at about 8 p.m., I received a letter asking me to report to the police on a case of this Offa robbery which had been concluded before now


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Officials of the Directorate of State Security (DSS) and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday morning laid siege to the residence of the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu in Abuja.

Spokesman of the Deputy Senate President, Uche Anichukwu confirmed the siege to our reporters

Details later…

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Against the backdrop of police summons for Senate President Bukola Saraki, President Muhammadu Buhari has met with some senators led by Rabiu Kwankwaso in an apparent bid to convince them to remain in the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC).

The senators were sighted at the presidential villa, Abuja on Monday night along with Jigawa State governor, Abubakar Badaru.

Kwankwaso representing Kano State is also believed to be on the verge of leaving the APC having fallen out with his state governor and former protege, Umar Ganduje.

There had been reports that Saraki and Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, were to meet with the president and Vice President’s Yemi Osinbajo last Sunday over the same issue but the meeting did not materialize.

Saraki, who has hinted that he was considering his future in the APC, has again been summoned by the Inspector General of Police to appear at the office of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) in Abuja, the Federal Capital territory (FCT), over his alleged linkage to the wide-ranging robbery operation that resulted in the death of 33 people in Offa, Kwara State in April
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Eight people were killed at a mosque in northeast Nigeria on Monday when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives, a civilian militia member and a local resident said.

The blast happened in the Mainari area of Konduga, in Borno state, said Ibrahim Liman, from the civilian militia force assisting the military in the fight against Boko Haram.

“The male bomber walked into the mosque at about 5:15 am (0415 GMT) while prayers were on and exploded, killing eight worshippers and injuring five others,” he told AFP.

“Seven of the victims died in the mosque while another died on the way to (the Borno state capital) Maiduguri.”

Suicide bombings against “soft” civilian targets such as mosques, markets and bus stations are the hallmark of the Boko Haram faction led by Abubakar Shekau.


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At least five people were killed and some others abducted on Sunday by armed Bandits along the Kaduna-Abuja highway.

The Kaduna State Commissioner of Police, Austin Iwar, Confirmed the attack to Channels Television.

While stating that four bodies have been recovered so far from the scene of the incident, the police boss assured residents that the force is on the trail of the bandits.

A resident and witness of the incident, said that the attack occurred around 6:00 pm near Gidan Busa village, located between Jere and Kateri communities, along the expressway.

The resident who pleaded anonymity explained that passengers were returning from Kaduna to Abuja in different vehicles, when they stumbled on the bandits who mounted a road block, stopped motorists and started shooting sporadically.



The latest attack comes a week after security operatives conducted search operations for arms at Kuriga village.

In 2017, the Kaduna-Abuja highway witnessed series of attacks by armed bandits with many abducted and lives lost in the process.

Although, the road became relatively peaceful since this year, the resurgence of Sunday’s attack by gunmen, has raised fresh fear among residents

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I have a proof that your village people have succeeded in using your sense to play bet9ja.. Even Buhari will not vote for buhari.. Your stupidity is un-opossed